User:Rewinn

It might be where I am Then again, it might not.

Things that amuse me
I publish the 4freeCLE Newsletter, which is the largest (and probably only) periodical listing free continuing legal education programs.

I also work on Lawyers For Warriors blog, and Washington State Bar Association's Section on Peace Through Law (including our program of educational events, see Lawyers for Warriors CLE 12/27/2007.

Quotations that should be less obscure

 * "I often wonder why men set so much value upon ancestry. For as all moralists agree, that fraud and violence prevail in this life over gentleness and virtue; so to say that we had great ancestors, is too often the same as to say, that we descend from great knaves." - William Sampson, "Causes of the Troubles in Ireland" (1817), 


 * "When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason." -  Thucydides


 * ""Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living." - General Omar Bradley


 * "Any time you hear the United States Government talking about wiretap, it requires --- a wiretap requires a court order." - G.W. Bush

Pacific NW History

 * Charles K. Wiggins - WA Supreme Ct justice
 * Henry A. Smith - early Seattle settler, after whom Smith's Cove is named, but perhaps better known as the author (perhaps) of the unlikely "Chief Seattle's Reply"
 * Henry Roberts (captain) - minor historical figure, after whom Point Roberts, Washington was named
 * HMS Chatham (1788) - a less-well-known part of our Puget Sound history
 * Joseph Baker (captain) - first European to spot Mt. Baker and among those who were first to reach the summit of Mauna Loa
 * Joseph Whidbey - sailing master, engineer & fossil finder
 * Midnite Mine - on the Spokane res
 * Mother Damnable - a legendary figure of early Seattle
 * Patkanim - most powerful Indian on Puget Sound
 * Sir Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner - captain and mentor to many Puget Sound explorers
 * St. Edward Seminary - I know about this from being an alum
 * Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford - sailor, baron and wastrel
 * Umbrella Man (Seattle) - inventor of the umbrella hat
 * Vancouver Expedition - an important part of West Coast history
 * Walt Crowley - a titan in preserving Washington State history on the internet (although, ironically, not at all a fan of wikipedia)
 * Zachary Mudge - the man for whom Puget Sound was *almost* named

Law

 * Arkansas Bar Association - cleaning up bar association pages generally
 * Bar Association of Puerto Rico
 * Colorado Bar Association - not a lot of easily accessible history on their website; are they shy?
 * Connecticut Bar Association - another one with not a lot of history on their website. A mystery!
 * Confessional Privilege (United States) - Needed this for the Sampson article. The parent Confession(al) Seal article was very out of date w/r/t American Law
 * District of Columbia Bar - filling a hole
 * Delaware State Bar Association - there doesn't seem to be much about this one out there on the web
 * Hawaii State Bar Association - filling a hole
 * Idaho State Bar - filling a hole
 * Indiana State Bar Association - filling a hole
 * Kentucky Bar Association - goodness there's a lot of holes
 * Louisiana State Bar Association - another
 * Puerto Rican Bar Association - etc
 * Maine State Bar Association - sure are a lot of these!
 * Maryland State Bar Association - soon the state bars of all 50 states will have a page
 * The Mississippi Bar
 * The Missouri Bar
 * State Bar of Montana
 * Nebraska State Bar Association
 * New Hampshire Bar Association
 * North Carolina Bar Association
 * State Bar of New Mexico
 * Oklahoma Bar Association
 * North Carolina State Bar
 * State Bar Association of North Dakota
 * State Bar of South Dakota
 * Washington State Bar Association - I used to work there
 * State Bar of Wisconsin
 * Wyoming State Bar
 * Utah State Bar

Other

 * AFROMET - a project for cultural repatriation of looted Ethiopean goods
 * Angel of Hadley - truth or legend? a rippin' yarn either way!
 * Battlemind - a concept and a program of interest to servicemembers and their families
 * Ben Salmon - American religious pacifist
 * Confederated Tribes of Siletz - I gotta family connection
 * Developing Communities Project - I'd seen several references to this, and couldn't find an article. I guess that means I have to start it.
 * Don Meadows - historian & bibliophile
 * John Voss - interesting guy!
 * Knights of the Dinner Table Illustrated - an interesting spinoff, although somewhat violent
 * Kyle Snyder (soldier) - trying to disambiguate the Iraq war resister from the professional athelete
 * Lowell Mellett - journalist behind the Why We Fight series
 * List of Iraq War Resisters - intended to simplify "See Also" sections of some resisters' pages
 * Metallic Metals Act - a remarkable hoax cited in a study; but was the study itself a hoax?
 * Pansy Kidd Middle School = I saw this photo on Digg and just knew the school needed proper recognition. Hopefully the schoolmembers or alum will fully upgrade the page, which I based on that for Mercer Island High School
 * Solson Publications - I briefly owned a copy of their comic Reagan's Raiders. It was just as aweful as rumors
 * Sword of Sorcery - I used to have a complete run of this comic. Of course, that was only 5 issues.
 * Towereroo - in his day, the most far-travelled of Hawai'ians; he never got to marry his girlfriend
 * Wade-Dahl-Till valve - medical gadget invented, in part, by author Roald Dahl
 * William Sampson (attorney) - I know about this guy from editing his memoirs
 * Zenas Leonard - his journal mentions meeting York (explorer) which, if true, makes a good ending to the Lewis & Clark expedition

Pages I like to watch

 * Admission to the bar in the United States - I worked at a state bar for several years, so this is a favorite topic of mine. It's a complicated subject, so I assume the page will continue to be heavily editted
 * Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
 * Iraq Perspectives Project - very interesting
 * Peter Puget - explorer and sea dog
 * Saint Edward State Park - I'm an alum of the school that later became this park. It's even better now that it's a park!
 * Raymond Hunthausen and Society of Saint-Sulpice - added info about St. Ed's
 * Sigilverse: a universe destroyed by bankruptcy. Kinda ironic
 * Signing_statement
 * Theobald Wolfe Tone - added information gleaned from the memoirs of William Sampson (attorney)

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