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Author: Paul Luvera

Plaintiff trial lawyer for 50 years. Past President of the Inner Circle of Advocates & Washington State Trial Lawyers Association. Member American Board of Trial Advocates, American College of Trial Lawyers, International Academy, International Society of Barristers, the American Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame & speaker at Spence Trial College
Framing Issues Politically

Framing Issues Politically

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FRAMING THE ISSUES UC Berkeley linguistics professor George Lakoff has written articles and published books on the significance of using language to frame issues and in particular how the Republicans and right wing conservatives have employed this technique to conceal their true intent. Frank Luntz wrote the play book for the Republicans on framing has developed many of the popular Republican framing of issues. For example, the Republican frame for "trial lawyer" is "frivolous lawsuits" that run up the cost…

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Money Still Makes the World Go Around

Money Still Makes the World Go Around

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The Seattle PI of October 24th had two articles about money. The first was an Associated Press report about the record earnings of the oil industry. It reported that five of the largest energy companies are expected to report combined 3rd quarter earnings of "…more then $30 billion dollars…" This industry has been allowed a free hand in price gouging of the American public. This country’s continued dependence on fossil fuel is the source of much of our nation’s problems,…

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Effective Speaking

Effective Speaking

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Father Hung T. Nguyen is a Vietnamese born pastor at a small Catholic church in my home town of Gig Harbor, Washington (population 6400 people) He is an excellent communicator. I’ve noted the things that make him a good speaker. He clearly takes time preparing. He has excellent timing, does not speak too quickly, uses voice inflection and gestures with congruence with an open stance. He speaks simply in words everyone understands with examples and stories. The content of his…

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Compassion

Compassion

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Surveys about how people feel regarding the poor, the homeless and the disadvantaged report not merely a lack of sympathetic concern, but resentment toward them. Perhaps it is the result of the political attitude of this administration and Congress that poroduces this attitude or perhaps this adminstration merely reflects the attitude of the voters. However, political support for the wealthy at the expense of the middle class and poor by this Congress is unhealthy and unAmerican. The red and blue…

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Complacency

Complacency

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In the classic 1949 movie The Third Man staring Joseph Cotton and Orsen Wells, Wells says to Cotton "In Italy under the Borgias, they had warefare, terror, murder, bloodshed – but, they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock" Struggle can be beneficial as the oft quoted statement of Friedrich Nietzsche "what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger" says.

America Needs to Wake Up

America Needs to Wake Up

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Someone sent me an e-mail of a talk by Navy Captain Dan Ouimette given in Pensacola in 2003 entitled "America Needs to Wake Up" Captain Ouimette argues that America has failed to respond with sufficient retaliatory force to terrorist attacks starting in 1979 when the American Embassy in Tehran was targeted as well as the attacks which followed to the present time. He argues America has been under "constant attack" since then because of our lack of enough military response….

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Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor

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Garrison Keillor is a masterful story teller as well as a wise commentator on America and it’s politics. For a link to A Prairie Home Companion website: http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/

Appealing to the Reptilian Brain

Appealing to the Reptilian Brain

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A great deal of attention has been paid in recent months by advertising and marketing companies to a concept advocated by Dr. Clotair Rapaille (pronounced “rah-pie”), a French born psychologist-turned-marketing consultant. The objective is to discover a message which will trigger instinctive actions at an unconscious level and motivate the person to buy the product. To understand his theory we need to look at the human brain.According to the triune brain theory developed by Dr. Paul MacLean, Chief of Brain…

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Websites of Interest

Websites of Interest

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This is a website with quotations of every kind: Quotations. For an article about my Italian father’s book and the history of his writing it see How to Carve Totem Poles. While the information in the article about how to aquire the book is outdated, it can still be obtained from my sister Phyllis Ennes in Anacortes, WA ennespl@comcast.net. For an article about my dad’s book see Mother Earth News at http://www.motherearthnews.com/DIY/1978_January_February/How_To_Carve_Totem_Poles