Ciceronianus; causidicus

I practice municipal law, and have watched with some interest the curious crusade of the current mayor of New York City to enforce, as it we...

I've just finished Christopher Hitchens' short biography of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson: Author of America , and being remind...

I've recently finished reading Alan Sokal's Beyond the Hoax , which I was rather annoyed to find is a collection of works previously...

We have a pope, yes.  We will shortly have another, though barring the death of the current Pontifex Maximus he (there's no she, of cour...

The title of this post is of course derived from the movie Romancing the Stone, "romancing" apparently being jewelers' jargon ...