User:Rewinn

It might be 00:06 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^[1] (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), [1]

• "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

Pages I started

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
• 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!
• Society of Saint-Sulpice
  - added info about St. Ed's
• Sigilverse
  : a universe destroyed by bankruptcy. Kinda ironic
• Signing_statement
• William Sampson (attorney)

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