SRB's Daily Show: weekend update

Monday, March 8, 2010

weekend update

3-8-2010-Joan Laporta. .. is stepping down after a successful tenure as president of the Barcelona soccer club, and speculation is that the 47-year old lawyers will enter politics. While Mr. Laporta has said “nothing is decided,” he did release a book with a title that bears an uncanny resemblance to that of another formerly young soon-to-be-politician lawyer. Mr. Laporta’s books is titled ... “dreams for my Children.” WSJ B8 [more than just a club]
3-6-2010-The [banking] crisis spurred a series of demonstrations from usually phlegmatic Icelanders, who recited poetry and tossed yogurt pots and rocks at government buildings to protest what they deemed the greed, ineptitude and spinelessness of the government elite. NYT A4 [wanna riot of my own!!]
3-5-2010—Vatican enmeshed in gay sex allegations NYT A6 [this is news?]

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About Bachmann

Steve Bachmann, AB (Harvard), MFA (UNO), JD (Harvard), has represented many organizations working for social change as an attorney. He is also co-founder of The New Orleans Art Review.

He has written scores of law review articles and several books over the years, including THE U.S. CONSTITUTION FOR BEGINNERS (Writers & Readers Press, 1987), illustrated by Pulitzer prize winner Joel Pett; PREACH LIBERTY (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1990); NONPROFIT LITIGATION (John Wiley & Sons, 1992); LAWYERS, LAW AND SOCIAL CHANGE, (2001) published in conjunction with the ACORN Cultural Trust and Unlimited Publishing LLC; and three books of art criticism, titled SIMULATING SEX: AESTHETIC REPRESENTATIONS OF EROTIC ACTIVITY (2002) and BEYOND NOLA: NEW ORLEANS REVIEWS OF ART (with Terrington Calas, 2002), both published in conjunction with The New Orleans Art Review, and Unlimited Publishing LLC. EXTREME PROUST is his latest book.