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The annual picnic on Saturday in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx was pretty nice - lovely weather, delicious kalbi, and Olympic trivia.
Michael Phelps is even more The Man, with eight… His place in Olympic history is pretty fixed. The next question is what will he do in the future? [...]

I came across this nice story on being a happy and successful lawyer from David Maister’s blog: Passion, People, and Principles.
Stephen C. Ellis is the managing partner at the law firm of Tucker, Ellis & West.
What follows is the commencement address he gave at Case Western reserve School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio on May [...]

Michael Phelps is The Man.
Apparently, Milorad “Mike” Cavic, the guy who won silver (by a mere length of a hair in touching the wall after Phelps) - he’s an American-born swimming for his parents’ homeland of Serbia. If the NY Times is correct, he’s apparently not too unhappy with his silver.
Interesting profile on the [...]

Slate’s Explainer on how Georgia (the one that had to deal with Russia this week) has been known as “Georgia” and whether this is the same as Georgia (of United States of America) - with the answer being kind of, but not quite (”St. George” being the derivation, but some differences of how this came [...]

A hiatus from Olympics stuff (which has been pretty awesome, by the way).
Saturday: saw “Mamma Mia.” Fun movie to help one relax; don’t look for much in the way of brainwave activity. Meryl Streep was fun, overdramatic (it’s a musical) and has an adequate voice. Amanda Seyfried - previously Lily Kane, the [...]