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About Me

I'm a lawyer. I concentrate, almost exclusively, in chapter 11 corporate reorganizations. I've been in practice for 20 years. I left my partnership in a medium-sized midtown firm about four years ago. Now I keep a deliberately small, private practice. I teach at a well-known New York area law school. I write about issues in bankruptcy.I am an amateur Egyptophile. I am studying Buddhism. I have two wonderful cats. I'm eclectic. I love fireworks. I like to think I'm generous, though that's not for me to judge. I like to listen to people, though I can be fairly opinionated on some things (like the war in Iraq - I thought it was a bad idea to start with and all of my worst fears (predictions) about it have come to pass).

My Interests

Buddhism, Tigers, Ancient Egypt, Photography, Museums, Zoos, Law, Cosmology, Astronomy, Politics, the Environment, My cats, Art, Current Events, Books, Music & Film, Travel (my most recent trips were to Egypt, Thailand and Cambodia, next I want to see India, Nepal, Tibet, China - I'm not much for laying aroung on a beach, I can do that here in NY)

I'd like to meet:

H.H. Tenzin Gyatso, the XIV Dalai Lama; William J. Clinton; Hilary Clinton; Russ Feingold; Barack Obama; Angelina Jolie (okay, so I'm shallow, she is still a champion of human rights); Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Tom Friedman, Fidel Castro, Nelson Mandela, people interested in quantum physics, cosmology, string theory, and the nature of time; Siouxsie Sioux; Christianne Ananpour; Deborah Harry; Steven Colbert, Jon Stewart; Cristo; Faith Hubbel; Neil Armstrong; Einstein, Gandhi, Shakespeare, Guttenberg, Fermat, Plato, Socrates, Aristophanes, Aristotle; Akhenaten, Snefru, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin; Picasso, Cornel, Monet, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Muhammed, Moses, chess players, Mike Tyson; Martin Luther King, Jr., Chairman Mao, Robert F. Kennedy, Charlie Chaplin, Frank Zappa, Jerry Garcia, Teddy Roosevelt, Abe Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Karl Marx, Dostoevsky . . . it's a long list and I've barely started. . . on a personal level, I'd like to meet someone eclectic. Someone interested in exploring new things, places, foods, music, ideas. Someone artistic or artistically inclined. Someone who can hold her own in conversation on wildly diverse topics. Someone who likes to read good books as well as trash, who likes good music (i.e. avoids top 40 radio). Someone to go out and hang out with (and equally comfortable) in the park, in the bars, at the NY Phil or a black tie benefit. Someone playful. Someone serious. Someone in leather. Someone in lace. Someone in bluejeans. Someone in the perfect little black cocktail dress. Someone in nothing at all. Someone who is all of the above.These good people want you to know that I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 Edit your Friend's list with Top Friends Generator of MyWackoSpace.com

My Dharma Friends
I have lots of friends

Dalai Lama

Avalokitesvara

DharmaSpace

Panchen Lama

Chris

The Buddha

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Tamara

Cairy

Tenzin Gyatso

Musicians for Free Tibet

Dalai Lama

Free Tibet

Allen Ginsberg

The West is the Best

Funkbuddha Recordings

Genyen Lobsang Choephel

Krakucchanda Buddha

Allen Ginsberg

Biography of Sakyog Mipham Rinpoche

Konchog Thubten

Free Tibet

Ram Dass

Buddha

Brother Sean Hillman (Bhikshu Tenzin Sherab)

Please, Support Free Tibet

Dr. Timothy Leary

Arianna Jolee

Buddha

Arya Nagarjuna

The Nechung Monks CD

Thubtenkway

Alban

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Om mani padme hum

Free Will

Tao

Dada Nabhaniilananda

Lobsang Nyima

Snow Lion Cry

Friends of the Dalai Lama

Dharma Bums

Tibet 101

Lhamo Dolma (F.O.F.)

Save Tibet

His Holiness 14th Dalai Lama

The Wise Man in the Back of the Room

Nick Kristof

Vajrasattva

Kirra Tara

Karma Tsering Lhamo

Compassionate Action/Zach

Traktung Rinpoche

Rigdzin

Pemako Project

Meddicine Buddha

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Television:

The Daily Show, The Colber Report, The Closer, The Prisoner, The Tick, CNN Headline News, C-Span, Iron Chef, Attack of the Show, Family Guy, South Park, Futurama, The Simpsons, Law & Order (whichever rerun of whichever episode of whichever original or spin-off happens to be playing on anyone of three different networks at any given moment), Jeopardy, Millionaire.

Books:

Heroes:

H.H. Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi, Robert F. Kennedy, Chairman Mao Tse Tung, Abbie Hoffman

My Blog

Salmon? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Salmon - Not in Alaska

To summarize: Governor Palin appointed a bunch of mining industry officials (can you say cronies) to head up Alaska's Department of Natural Resources, which regulates mines. Her environmental commissi...
Posted by BuddhistAttorney on Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:51:00 PST

Save the Polar Bear - Vote No on Palin

There's a lot more to be said about Palin and the Polar Bear. Earlier this year the US fish and wildlife administration debated whether the Polar Bear should be placed on the endangered list. Palin ...
Posted by BuddhistAttorney on Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:19:00 PST

Restore Sanity to Congress - Support Tinklenberg in Minnesota

With a little over two weeks until election day it appears increasingly likely that Sen. Obama will not only be our next president, but that he will win by a substantial margin, perhaps even a landsli...
Posted by BuddhistAttorney on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:44:00 PST

Sarah Palin & the Washington Elite

Sarah Palin loves to stand in front of the cameras and savage the "liberal media", the "Washington insiders", and the "East Coast elitists". ...
Posted by BuddhistAttorney on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:29:00 PST

Redistributing Wealth

I am reminded of the old nursery rhyme:I'm rubber,You're glue.The names you call me,bounce off meand stick to you.A childish retort to a childish insult. But if it applies to anyone these days, ...
Posted by BuddhistAttorney on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:05:00 PST

What Makes us Rich? What Makes us Proud?

The current state of the economy - the fall of the Dow and the shaky reliability of standard economic indicators and rating companies - call to my mind a speech made by Robert F. Kennedy at the Univer...
Posted by BuddhistAttorney on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:04:00 PST

What You Don’t Know About Acorn

In a desperate effort to distract attention from the economy the McCain '08 campaign has been making spurious allegations concerning the relationship between Barack Obama and ACORN.There are two separ...
Posted by BuddhistAttorney on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:01:00 PST

The Palin Report (the juicy parts)

The devil, as they say, is in the details. The report issued to the Alaska Legislative Council on October 10, paints a scathing portrait of a Governor using her position, her office and her subo...
Posted by BuddhistAttorney on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:00:00 PST

For Shame Senator

The RNC's new attack ad is the sleaziest piece of work I have seen in a presidential campaign since Willie Horton.Senator Obama has answered these questions. He answered them months ago. The iss...
Posted by BuddhistAttorney on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:29:00 PST

Taxes & Patriotism

Here is about half of today's column from Tom Friedman in the NY Times on the topic of taxes and patriotism. The remainder of the column (and you can click the link below) is about whether Palin...
Posted by BuddhistAttorney on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:56:00 PST