Today I'm thankful so many stores have chosen to be open on Thanksgiving. I've always found those holidays where everything in the world is closed to be more than a little creepy.Not everybody is happy about the new retailing plans for Thanksgiving. I got a link in the mail to this marginally coherent change.org petition asking Kohl's department stores not to open on … [Read more...] about Thanks For Shopping
Archives for November 2013
Non-Lawyers Talking About the Law
Scott Greenfield has a post up at Simple Justice talking about how often people get legal advice from sources other than lawyers. I'll skip to the ending: The law is hard to understand, hard to navigate and very hard to practice. If you are not a lawyer, you have no business giving legal advice because you don’t know what you’re talking about and someone, somewhere, will be … [Read more...] about Non-Lawyers Talking About the Law
Getting Important Information Out There
I don't normally write about the blog marketing annoyances, but this one deserves a comment. Mark Bennett received a request from someone (I'm guessing this guy) asking for permission to repost some of his stuff: I have recently started a blog and would like to cross pollinate with people such we yourself who obviously see the world the same as I do. So I’d like to start … [Read more...] about Getting Important Information Out There
New Terms and Conditions
In keeping with tradition, I wanted my blog to have the most severe and over-the-top Terms & Conditions possible, with robust protection against spammers, lawsuits, and intellectual property theft.I could have engaged a lawyer to write them for me, or I could have researched it on the web and tried to write my own, but those options seemed to be too expensive and too … [Read more...] about New Terms and Conditions
Knowing Harm When We See It
One of the themes I keep visiting here at Windypundit is that when you harm someone, the magnitude of the harm you do that person is not dependent on your reason for doing it. Punch a guy in the face, and it doesn't matter if he's an innocent stranger on the bus or a push-in robber trying to get into your home. You cause the same pain either way.I'm not saying there's no … [Read more...] about Knowing Harm When We See It