Interested in Coproration Law and Economics?
- The Shadow Chancellor's Notebook
Posts, Comments and Resources in Corpration and Securities Law and Law and Economics
Interested In Policy?
- The Old Roman by Orlando Plumbe
Check out a stoic's Meditations on Policy, especially as it relates conlfict in politics, the legal system and foreign policy
Interested In Aesthetics, Rhetoric and Culture?
- Mauve Moments with Orlando Plumbe
A Stoic Considers Aesthetics, Literature, Music, History and the Arts of Rhetoric and Persuasion
Desert Island Discs
A Hot Tuna Sampler
Hot Tuna: America's Choice
The beginning of Hot Tuna's "heavy metal" phase. Play it loud.Hot Tuna: Burgers
Jorma and Jack at the height of their powers. Both acoustic and electric songs. Ripping great violin byPapa John Creech to boot.Hot Tuna: Hot Tuna
The first and maybe the best. Acoustic.Hot Tuna: Phosphoresent Rat
A mix of the band's styles. Tried to do something commercial and really pleased no one.
Books on My Bedside
Jacques Barzun: A Jacques Barzun Reader : Selections from His Works (Perennial Classics)
He started so young, and he chugs on so admirably. Perhaps Barzun is the last living philosophe from the Enlightment. When you read Barzun's stuff, you want to read more both by him and others.. The highest compliment I can give a writer.ULYSSES S. GRANT: Personal Memoirs: Ulysses S. Grant (Modern Library War)
He wrote clearly in the field and just as clearly on his death bed.Sinclair Lewis: Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth (Library of America)
The themes are timeless, the details of time and place fascinating, and the prose better than you remember from 11th grade english.Niall Ferguson: The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
This goes quickly; but it helps to know the subject first. Nt a good introduction.
One-Line Bio
Orlando is a corporate lawyer for a living and uses this blog to express his philosophical, speculative and whimsical sides and as an electronic shoebox to collect interesting thoughts of others.
Biography
Orlando was born on a United States Naval Base in Japan. He grew up in eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware. He has practiced law for twenty years in New York, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware. His specialty is corporate and bankruptcy litigation. Orlando lives with his wife Beatrice in Gibbsville, Pennsylvania.
Interests
Orlando's hobbies include tennis, paddle tennis, golf and hiking. He reads mostly history and biographies. His favorite authors of fiction are John O'Hara, John Updike, John Cheever, Julian Barnes, Balzac, Flaubert and Gogol. He has never gotten past the music of the sixties and seventies (Grateful Dead, Byrds, Gram Parsons, Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane, Beatles, Stones and Kinks) although he likes a lot of newer alt-folk and alt-country performers and brazilian music. He and his family love to travel.
