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Thursday, October 4, 2012
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Writing Wednesdays: No More Mister Nice Guy
Writing Wednesdays
By Steven Pressfield | Published: October 3, 2012
We were speaking last week about returning from a vacation and gearing up to get back in the groove. I said that my first ?note to self? would be to start thinking, not in immediate go-go terms, but in longer, extended blocks of time.
My role model
My second marching order to myself is to start saying no.
The aim of these admonitions is to establish a realistic project timetable, to buckle down to a serious working rhythm, and to protect the air space around that timetable and that rhythm.
So I?ll stop saying yes to things.
First I?ll stop saying yes to things I want to do. My friend Jake, who has tickets to Springsteen on the opposite coast? Sorry, pard. Can?t waste two days at 30,000 feet.
I?ll go to Lou and Rachel?s wedding. I?ll be there for the festivities after. But I can?t stay out all night, and I won?t do anything that?ll leave me in no shape to work the next morning.
People are gonna get pissed at me.
What?s wrong with Pressfield? What?s his problem? Why is turning into such an asshole?
I?m like the Blues Brothers. I?m on a mission.
Next I?ll start saying no to deserving invitations. Yeah, I could meet that Australian novelist coming into town, or do a favor for my friend Jeanie?s nephew. But if I say yes to them, I?m saying no to the thing that?s most important to me.
Sorry.
I won?t do it.
Next I?ll say no all the sociopathic asks, and clueless asks, and amateur asks, from whatever quarter they appear. For some strange reason, this is the hardest for me.
It?s a character flaw. I have a demented need to think of myself as a Nice Guy. I don?t know why. Being a nice guy has never worked for me. It has screwed me up again and again.
I have had to school myself, like a spaniel, trying to break myself of this habit.
You lose friends.
You get a reputation.
I don?t care.
I know what it feels like, at the end of the day, when I?ve said yes to some bogus ?opportunity? because I thought I ought to, or I didn?t want to offend someone, or because it seemed like what a Nice Guy would do.
I know what it feels like, at the end of the day, when I haven?t done my work?or slighted the Muse by doing it in some rushed or muddled manner.
I don?t want to feel like that.
I?m on a mission.
I have laid out a block of time, and in that time I have aims I want to achieve.
So things that I might have said yes to last month, I?ll say no to now.
The goal is to build a focus, to establish traction, to work not like an amateur but like a professional.
No more Mister Nice Guy.
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Another big Supreme Court term starts Monday
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaks during a ceremony naming a courtroom at The John Marshall Law School after former Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg Friday, Sept. 28, 2012 in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaks during a ceremony naming a courtroom at The John Marshall Law School after former Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg Friday, Sept. 28, 2012 in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Supreme Court is starting a new term that is shaping up to be as important as the last one, with the prospect of major rulings about affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights.
Three months after the court upheld President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, the same lineup of justices returns to the bench Monday morning.
Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court's liberals in sustaining the health care law, drawing liberals' plaudits and conservatives' anger.
This term's big cases seem likely to have Roberts in his more accustomed role of voting with his fellow conservatives and leave Justice Anthony Kennedy with his typically decisive vote in cases that otherwise split the court's liberals and conservatives.
But Roberts will be watched closely for additional signs that he is becoming less ideologically predictable.
A fight over the University of Texas' affirmative action program is the first blockbuster case on the court's calendar, with argument scheduled for Oct. 10. Texas uses multiple factors, including community service, work experience, extracurricular activities, awards and race, to help fill the last 20 to 25 percent of the spots in its freshman classes. The outcome could further limit or even end the use of racial preferences in college admissions.
The court also is expected to confront gay marriage in some form. Several cases seek to guarantee federal benefits for legally married same-sex couples. A provision of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act deprives same-sex couples of a range of federal benefits available to heterosexual couples.
Several federal courts have agreed that the provision of the law is unconstitutional, a situation that practically ensures that the high court will step in.
A separate appeal asks the justices to sustain California's Proposition 8, the amendment to the state constitution that outlawed gay marriage in the nation's largest state. Federal courts in California have struck down the amendment.
The justices may not even consider whether to hear the gay marriage issue until November.
Another hot topic with appeals pending before the high court, and more soon to follow, is the future of a cornerstone law of the civil rights movement.
In 2006, Congress overwhelmingly approved, and President George W. Bush signed, legislation extending for 25 more years a critical piece of the Voting Rights Act. It requires states and local governments with a history of racial and ethnic discrimination, mainly in the South, to get advance approval either from the Justice Department or the federal court in Washington before making any changes that affect elections.
The court spoke skeptically about the provision in a 2009 decision, but left it mostly unchanged. Now, however, cases from Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas could prompt the court to deal head on with the issue of advance approval. The South Carolina and Texas cases involve voter identification laws; a similar Indiana law was previously upheld by the court.
It is unclear when the justices will decide whether to hear arguments in those cases. Arguments themselves would not take place until next year.
The court itself has largely been absent as an issue on the campaign trail. But the justices could become enmeshed in election disputes, even before the ballots are counted. Suits in Ohio over early voting and provisional ballots appear the most likely to find their way to the justices before the Nov. 6 election, said Richard Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California at Irvine law school.
The first case on the court's calendar Monday is a high-stakes dispute between the business community and human rights advocates over the reach of a 1789 law. The issue is whether businesses and individuals can be sued in U.S. courts for human rights violations that take place on foreign soil and have foreign victims.
Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said the 223-year-old Alien Tort Statute has been an important tool in establishing accountability for "human rights atrocities that occur abroad."
Former State Department legal adviser John Bellinger III said the law has become "the bane of the existence of corporations" because suits filed under the law are lengthy and expensive.
Bellinger pointed to one example in which more than 50 companies that did business in South Africa under apartheid more than 30 years ago are facing a lawsuit in New York.
Monday's high court case involves a lawsuit filed against Royal Dutch Petroleum over claims that the oil company was complicit in abuses committed by the Nigerian government against its citizens in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
The court first heard the case in February to consider whether businesses could be sued under the law. But the justices asked for additional arguments about whether the law could be applied to any conduct that takes place abroad.
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Supreme Court: http://www.supremecourt.gov
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Monday, October 1, 2012
Eva Longoria All White Fashion Fail!
Eva Longoria showed up to a very worthy event, one that should earn her respect. With that said, her choice of a gown is just plain embarrassing. It was an epic fail! This column obviously has no filter to it. We’ve made fun of the elderly, the young and clueless, the intoxicated, and of course, the ridiculously wealthy. Well this time around it’s no different. We have set our sites on the former star of Desperate Housewives, who showed up to an event looking like something that was plucked off of the top of a wedding cake. Usually she is understated, but not really conservative. Back when her show was at the top of the ratings, she would go to events dressed to the nines. This time, she looks just simple and plain. Take a look at a gallery of her at the 12th Annual Padres Contra El Cancer’s “El Sueno De Esperanza” and judge for yourself. Pictures: PR Photos
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