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OPM Disability Retirement: The gathering clouds

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We don’t have people saying such pithy or inane things, anymore, and the death of the metaphor is the fault of Google.  And, of course, the Weather Channel and the Smart Phone apps that give us the updated information concerning that which we can see for ourselves.  Who ever talks that way, anymore?  “The dark clouds are gathering” – a metaphor for trouble brewing, problems arising or bad people getting together to engage in no good deeds. […] Read More …

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Explanation & Intelligibility

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The goal of an explanation is to achieve greater intelligibility; otherwise, if the latter is not achieved, the former loses its purpose. If the explanation fails to provide a basis for the goal, it would then undermine its own rational foundation. Law often loses sight of this simple principle, and feeds upon itself to justify the complexity of its own existence. But if the purpose of the legal field is to maintain a civilized society and to simplify the conundrum of life’s entanglements, then much of law fails to achieve its justifying existence. […]

 
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