All A-Kindle

With Robert's and Ernie's rave reviews now in, I'm one-clicking myself a Kindle even as you're reading this. If you're similarly inclined, or still enjoying your 1st Gen model, keep in mind Bag and Baggage is one of the many blogs available for your reading pleasure on Amazon's toy practical and useful-looking device.

This Kindle thing is quite a racket!

It's never ok to lie — but when it comes to kids persuasion is a matter of simple survival

Advocacy is the art of telling the truth in the most compelling manner you can muster.

"Conning" has gotten a bad name (I blame Paul Newman and Robert Redford), but I'm pretty confident (pun intended) the advice in David Borgenicht's and Janes Grace's How to Con Your Kid is ethically sound. The book is more like basic advocacy training for when the judge and jury are under six or so. What, like it's supposed to be a level playing field? Their persuasive skills are unparalleled. These "cons" just begin to give you a fighting chance. It hasn't left my bedside table in two years.

Amorous Greek Octopi

Octopodi by Talantis Films was one of the Oscar nominees for best animated short. Spotted on CBS News Sunday Morning (through the joy of TiVo). Parakalo.

Sweet Submission

A key perk of being a Southern California lawyer is regular, mostly decent exposure to Justice Arthur Gilbert's guffaw-inducing columns in the Los Angeles Daily Journal. They're also posted to his blog, Gilbert Submits, so you can see for yourself what I mean. Twenty years' worth are now collected in book form, with proceeds going to the California Judges Foundation. An ideal gift for the Courtoon lover in your life.

TWiL 21: It's Our Data And We'll Cry If We Want To

This Week in Law with Denise Howell
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TWiL 21 is up, with Evan Brown, Colette Vogele, Jonathan Bailey, and Rick Klau.

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