Friday, December 31, 2010
One of the points of doing Outside Counsel-- now in its tenth year-- is to say things that other people haven't said. Here's a list of some things that I'm glad I said this year:
On Geoffrey Stokes
On Why the Statler would be wrong for UB Law
On The politics of judicial appointments
On Clerical sexual abuse
On Gun nuts
On OTB
On Juan-Carlos Formell and Johnny's Dream Club
On 64 ounces of sardines
On Funerals
On The ambiguities of history
Also, although I've flogged this piece several times before, my article in Afterimage on the prosecution of my friend Lawrence Brose is something I'm proud to have written. (It is being re-published in The Squealer, coming soon.) The Brose case has been much commented upon by the sorts of people at the Buffalo News that comment on that sort of thing, and they have, I think, mostly gotten it wrong. What has struck me throughout is that the local arts community has been notably reticent about standing up for a man who has been a prominent advocate for artistic freedom and arts funding for over ten years. Lawrence would have been at the front of the line protesting Chris Collins' funding cuts, and the absence of his voice has been a profound void. I'm glad that Squeaky Wheel has stepped up and allowed me to speak out on this matter, and I am sorry that essentially no other arts organization in Buffalo has had the courage to do so.
On Geoffrey Stokes
On Why the Statler would be wrong for UB Law
On The politics of judicial appointments
On Clerical sexual abuse
On Gun nuts
On OTB
On Juan-Carlos Formell and Johnny's Dream Club
On 64 ounces of sardines
On Funerals
On The ambiguities of history
Also, although I've flogged this piece several times before, my article in Afterimage on the prosecution of my friend Lawrence Brose is something I'm proud to have written. (It is being re-published in The Squealer, coming soon.) The Brose case has been much commented upon by the sorts of people at the Buffalo News that comment on that sort of thing, and they have, I think, mostly gotten it wrong. What has struck me throughout is that the local arts community has been notably reticent about standing up for a man who has been a prominent advocate for artistic freedom and arts funding for over ten years. Lawrence would have been at the front of the line protesting Chris Collins' funding cuts, and the absence of his voice has been a profound void. I'm glad that Squeaky Wheel has stepped up and allowed me to speak out on this matter, and I am sorry that essentially no other arts organization in Buffalo has had the courage to do so.
// posted by Bill @ 11:24 AM 
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