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Yeppers. Sure did. I think that was the first time for me behind the wheel in nearly a year.
I have my nephews for the week, and their parents left with like zero groceries. I already did one round of groceries by bike, but my nephews don't ride, and my brother said NO for bike riding when he's not around to supervise. I was not in the mood to drag two cranky, overactive kids, so I told them I was going to drive. These are the responses I got from them:
"I thought you couldn't drive?"
"Are we gonna make it all the way there... by ourselves?"
"You don't have a drivers license!"
"Are you sure you know how to drive a car?"
"I've never seen you drive... I don't wanna go!"
Stuff like that. When we got in the car, they were so quiet you could hear a pin drop. I had to laugh. They didn't want to distract me from my driving just in case.
We got all the groceries (about 10 bags worth), and I loaded up the car trunk. Forgetting I had to worry about keys, I slammed down the trunk door, not realizing I'd left the keys on the floor of the trunk. Hilarity insues (well really, more like panic) when I realize I may not be able to drive us home, and we'd have to let the car sit for a week until my brother got back. Then the youngest one remembers you can pop the trunk, so I'm pulling the cord, but I didn't realize that I was popping the hood, not the trunk. Doh! *slaps forehead* So I end up getting the kids to scrub around the front dashboard until they found the right button, and we get the keys out of the trunk. After, I drove home, and the kids were so serious. They couldn't believe I knew how to drive. My brother called and laughed the entire time I told him about it.
I don't think I'm ready to drive again too soon. I told the kids bikes were better for the environment. Next time, we're taking the bus.


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Q. What is the basic difference between minimalist and traditional running shoes?
A. A lot, and it's not simply a matter of philosophical differences. Minimalist shoes fit the anatomy of the foot, allow the foot to move through its natural range of motion without restriction, and enable the sole of the foot to receive as much sensory information as possible while protecting the foot from dangerous objects and extreme weather. Nobody can seriously defend traditional shoes that have a heel, stiff midsole, narrow toebox, and thick cushioning.
Q. Whoa there, isn't it difficult to make a sweeping generalization that everybody should be wearing minimalist shoes?
A. Is it difficult to recommend a healthy diet for everyone? Should everyone attempt to exercise regularly? Steven Robbins, MD, a pioneering footwear researcher in Montreal, has stated that the three most important variables that affect our overall health are diet, exercise, and footwear. The first two variables are fairly self-evident, but most people do not realize the effect that footwear has on their biomechanics, posture, and sensory experience.
Q. What do you think of the "minimalist" offerings made by the major shoe companies?
A. First, realize that the large shoe companies have never had any desire to embrace the concept of minimalist shoes, since these shoes did not match the rest of their line. Second, even if these companies had decided to be swayed by the argument in favor of minimalist shoes, there remained the core problem of continuing to explain the merits of the traditional cushioned, stability, and motion control shoes which they what undoubtedly keep in their catalog. Third, they realized that they were losing a percentage of their sales to non-traditional running shoe companies: Merrell, Newton, Vibram FiveFingers, Vivo Barefoot, Altra, Inov8, etc. Although these companies are not as big as Nike, Brooks, and ASICS, they were still taking sales away from the larger brands; and it looked as if this trend would continue, since minimalist shoes and natural running were hot topics.
Q: Then, for the average runner you're saying that what is a truly minimalist shoe often is not?
A: By redefining the term, the big companies have been able to marginalize the truly minimalist shoes produced by the companies that I mentioned earlier. By simply claiming that some of their new shoes are minimalist, that company gains entry in to the category while, simultaneously shoes that are truly in the category are partially sidelined or not sold in large running shoe stores, because they are declared to be too different from what is acceptable. For example, a Brooks Flow is not a minimalist shoe, and neither is a Saucony Kinvara, yet those are probably the two most popular shoes in the category.
Q. If minimalist shoes are superior to traditional shoes, then why is it relatively common for runners wearing minimalist shoes to either have a difficult transitioning to them or suffer injuries?
A. Many runners continue to run with their old form, even in minimalist shoes. Their old shoes had so much cushioning that their own biomechanical mistakes were often disguised, and as a result, they developed muscle memories that continued to influence their running, even after they had switched shoes. I've seen runners in VFFs running heel first, but I can almost guarantee that they are certain their form has improved since switching shoes. These runners are painful to watch.
Q: That seems like a blanket generalization that assumes runners lack the ability to improve their form.
A: Other runners do change their form but their new form is still not totally correct. They might have been heel strikers and now they're running forefoot/midfoot first, but they're still overstriding and hitting the ground with their heel still too high. With this combination of form flaws it is common to see injuries to the Achilles tendon and calf muscles, as well as to the metatarsals in the foot, the areas which are overemphasized when running forefoot/midfoot incorrectly. Then, there's those that do change to a correct form of running, but they rush the transition that it takes to running in "less shoe," thereby overtaxing their lower body's limited strength and flexibility as well as not fully possessing the sensory responsiveness necessary to reduce the chance of injury.
Q: And the most ideal scenario is what?
A: Runners who go through a proper transition to less shoe, adopt proper form, and pay attention to the increased intensity of the sensory signals now available to their feet. I should add that critics of minimalist shoes try to put everyone in the first three groups, but many runners can be in this fourth group over time.
Q. Are proponents of minimalist shoes partially responsible for the higher injury rates and current criticism of minimalist shoes?
A. To some degree, yes. They've often underestimated the degree and difficulty of the transition. Many were convinced that runners who changed their foot strike would automatically correct other gait flaws, such as overstriding, insufficient hip extension and flexion, and poor upper body mechanics. But many runners are not accustomed to concentrating on their form, possibly because they often insist that everyone's "unique" style is theoretically correct for that individual.
Q. Are sales of minimalist shoes going down? Is the trend over?
A. No. Sales have steadily increased in stores that actively educate consumers about the function and purpose of minimalist shoes, and online purchases of minimalist running shoes have increased significantly each of the last five years, because many runners are forced to buy these models on the web when they are not available locally. Merrell, Vivo Barefoot, Vibram FiveFingers, Altra, and Inov8 continue to expand their choice of models. And last year a new company like Topo Athletic was able to raise the sufficient funding necessary to enter the market. Even sales of minimalist casual shoes are impressive, considering the few suppliers that can satisfy this growing demand.
Q: What about barefoot running?
A: Many of us tried to include support of barefoot running as part of the debate about minimalist shoes, but that simply enabled critics of minimalist shoes to attack barefoot running, which was an easier target. Barefoot running is the default running form for humans, but barefoot running is not an easy topic to explain or understand. In certain situations there are legitimate reasons to wear minimalist shoes instead of being barefoot, just as there are good reasons to wear work gloves in certain situations. (For example, would you wear heavy gloves if you were at the computer or trying to text someone on your cell phone?) Wearing minimalist shoes and running barefoot do not provide the same experience. Minimalist shoes can be an important piece of protection from the elements, and often allow us to run places and in conditions that would otherwise be inaccessible of dangerous. The next time the wind chill drops the temperature 5° below zero, I'll try to remember that we were not born with shoes, and then I will wear a pair of minimalist shoes.
Jim Hixson, who is a regular contributor to the Natural Running Center, has been a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist since 2002. He's currently the general manager at Feet for Life Motion Center in St Louis. MO.
very nice interview, spot on answers
in fact, these answers are so nice that i can reference these if in need to
much easier 😀
Thanks for reading (and agreeing!). I started researching minimal shoes, barefoot, and natural running ten years ago when I had plantar fasciitis and couldn't understand the doctor's prognosis, which was a lifetime of support. After a while very little of what I had been taught, and had rarely questioned, made sense anymore.
interesting, seems like that's what happens to a lot of people though in different ways to experience an, "everything i know is a lie," when it comes to running lol
i should add i just finished a spartan race yesterday, i THINK i was the only one barefoot…finished top 48th in my age group (20-24)
my brother ran it in his merrell vapor gloves, but said he could have done it barefoot, got 7th in his age group (18-20) though he was sore from track workouts lol, it WAS a rough week lol
I got Mononucleosis (and didn't know for like 8 months!) when I was 17 (21 now) and only at the very end of 2012 did i START to feel like myself though i'm still not who i was (thanks mono >:(), but back in 2010 when i found out i had been SO frustrated cause i didn't know what was wrong, I kept getting worse and worse and i didn't know why
so i finally got diagnosed and did nothing for 2 months to wait it out basically, i looked to rebuild myself
I had been reading on minimalist stuff since I was 15, searching about VFF and all that, reading on studies, questions and all that…coached myself a bit and made the change just before my 18th birthday with some huaraches and then VFF…unfortunately my senior year didn't turn out the way i'd hoped with an awesome comeback, or my freshman year of college though i was better, i still didn't have my mental toughness (which was destroyed by Mono IMO) or my "kick"
but going minimal/barefoot has made running so much better, I even got to start converting and coaching others successfully 😀
when explaining my choices…i forget stuff on the spot sometimes but i almost have it all down lol, these responses are virtually my opinions (but a smarter version of them :D)
thanks again
I'm glad you were encouraged to be interested in minimal shoes and natural running when you were still in high school. I became interested when I had plantar fasciitis, in 2003, and was unimpressed with the lack of thinking that went into my podiatrist's prognosis. At that time, there were very few articles in the popular press and those in the academic press were known only to specialists in the subject. The situation is much different now, with probably hundreds of articles published each year, all touching on the same points, but rearranging and interpreting them in different ways. Two of the best are Joseph Froncioni's "Athletic Shoes and Running Injuries" (2007) and Steve Magness's "Why Running Shoes Do Not Work" (2010)
Hi Jim,
Great article, really liked your points. I have been a sucker for transitioning too quickly and managed to damage a metatarsal very badly, so much so, I had to wear a sandal for two weeks until the swelling in my foot reduced.
However I have stuck with it since, and have slowly become a minimalist/barefoot(non-shod) runner and the movement feels truly wonderful, so much better than anything I had experienced before. Thankfully, due to a site like natural running center, I have been able to incorporate drills and skills to eliminate knee and foot problems and run stress free and just have fun. As a result I have gained significant speed improvements at a lower heart rate. Very cool.
I must admit, it can be difficult running non-shod and getting so many looks from on lookers, this is not a comfortable thing for my to deal with, but I do it for the rewards I get running free.
What are your thoughts on racing flats, such as Asics Piranha's? I understand these shoes are pretty much flat with a zero drop between heal and forefoot. Are they a true minimalist shoe and can they compete with the likes of Innov8, Merrell, VFF and Newtons? The reason I ask, is that a number of the big running shoe brands you mentioned all deliver some form or a racing flat.
Kind regards,
I had the same problem with the transition, for two common reasons:
(1) I concentrated on the forefoot landing, which caused me to emphasize plantarflexion and contact the ground with my heel further off the ground than is ideal. When the distance between the heel and the ground is minimal upon impact, the metatarsal bones and the muscles of the foot and the back of the leg are under pressure for a shorter period of time and the stretch reflex occurs more quickly, which allows for more efficient use of the potential energy stored by the eccentric loading of those same muscles.
(2) There were two reasons I had pain in my metatarsals: (a) the angle of my foot strike placed more direct stress on this area for a longer time; and (b) the sense receptors on the bottom of my feet had lost their ability to receive and process information quickly, so the reaction of my foot to the ground and the ability of muscles further up the chain to receive this information, was compromised. The first problem can be solved by adjusting the angle of the foot from one that is plantarflexed upon initial impact to one that is neutral or almost dorsiflexed. The second problem can be solved by being patient. Muscular changes occur much faster than neural changes. The sense receptors on the bottom of the foot can be reawakened, but several months are necessary for this process. As always, watch Mark's "Principles of Natural Running" and focus on his foot landing on the ground.
Racing flats are fine as long as they are actually flat. According to Running Warehouse, the Piranha has a 5mm drop. The other problem associated with flats is that their tapered toe-boxes don't fit the shape of the foot. The Merrell Vapor would be a good substitute for a flat, as would the Inov-8 Bare X-lite 150 and the Newton MV3.
Yes a good article. I've recently returned to running after nearly 30years ! In my teens I ran only on track or field occasionaly cross-country and wore light spikes. As I found all the different shoes confusing I bought a vivo barefoot shoe. It's been fine during my beginner to 5k programme. I've had the expected aches & pains – mainly shin or calves usually from hillwork. So I did exercises. Then it was my achilles – so I did more exercises! About 3 weeks before I started running I started yoga after a 3 yearvbreak and this has helped with my posture. But i'm struggling with my road run – which is the only flat 6k route I have, after yesterday the muscles &/or tendons down the front of my foot have been really painful. I've done rice, but am rather frustrated note it's not my shins,calves or achillles! As where I live is very remote, i've researched and realise that I must, more so on roads, over-pronate – the wear on my everyday footwear confirms this. I've recently bought some birkenstock clogs for day wear ajd they are fab – they are supposed to support your foot like walking in wet sand. When I wear these nearly all pain disappears. So i've given in and bought some minimalist shoes with some stability. Yes I know my posture needs work, an old hip injury has significantly improved with all this activity, but right now I feel I need that extra arch support. I really do believe in the ethos of barefoot running – any suggestions on what I can do now?
I like Vivo Barefoot and VFF products, but a change from a traditional shoe directly to a very thin shoe increases the chances of injuries for several reasons:
1. Insufficient muscular strength and balance in the intrinsic muscles of the foot; also weak tibialis posterior, a key muscle for stabilization;
2. Reduced flexibility;
3. Existing muscle memory which interferes with the creation of new patterns; and
4. Limited sensitivity in the sense receptors on the sole of the foot; this sensitivity is essential to process information that is being received very rapidly in a thin shoe.
1. If you are in pain when you run, don't run.
2. Run on softer surfaces.
3. Walk in minimal shoes whenever possible to slowly redevelop the strength, flexibility, and sensitivity necessary; be barefoot when possible.
4. Run in a zero-drop shoe with a little more cushioning (ex. Merrell Pace Glove or Road Glove, Inov8 Bare-X 150 or F-lite 209)
5. Look at the video on this site: "Principles of Natural Running"
6. Watch the video "Are You Ready to Go Minimal?"
Dr Mark & team,
I would just like to point out that the following product was advertised next to this article:
I appreciate you have no control over these thisngs,I just thought that this is the WORST piece of advertising placement I have ever seen!
Which shoes do you recommend for race walkers.


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Three Beers For Improving Race Relations?
An honest conversation about race, after a round of beers.
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I grew up in New York City, where you take the subway if you want to get anywhere. I distinctly remember being on the A train on countless late nights, and many St. Patrick's Days, where folks who have had one too many were not shy about expressing their views about race. It was not pretty. I'm not sure if today's "beer summit" — involving President Obama, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley — is the way to go.
Beer makes people do strange things. I clearly recall getting home after a night of beers with some pals and then calling every ex-girlfriend I ever had — or imagined I had. Many of them hadn't heard from me since the third grade and were appalled to be hearing from me, decades later, at 2 in the morning. A big mistake. I can only imagine what weird things President Obama might do after an evening of beers. Bowling, for example.
There may have been summits in the past where beer might have made sense. Take Khrushchev and Kennedy in 1961. I don't know if JFK was old enough to drink back then, but Nikita K. certainly was. Historians note that Khrushchev pretty much bullied the new president at their Vienna summit, but a sloshed Khrushchev might have been a different story.
Fast forward to the Iran-Contra scandal. Many people have misinterpreted President Reagan's words during that 1986 brouhaha, where the U.S. planned to sell arms to Iran, violating an embargo, in return for the freedom of American hostages, and use the money to illegally fund the Nicaraguan Contras, who were battling the leftist government there.
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a lovely house tour complete with white walls.
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I need my white walls back so bad! :(ReplyDelete
White is so fresh. 80% of the walls in our house are white, but I still think they need to be painted. I'll reconsider per your suggestion.ReplyDelete
Off to go pin some white spaces.
My mom has a white kitchen and growing up with a white kitchen wasn't fun at all... Ever since I've avoided white since dealing with cleaning it is such a pain, but these pictures are definitely inspiring! I imagine any room but a kitchen would be lovely in white and oh-so-easy to maintain!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the inspiration =)
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Agreed. Love your choices. Now I shall go eat my breakfast off my white plate and think of you.ReplyDelete
I agree. I love pictures of white homes with splashes of color... but in practice, well, it's scary! I do have white dishes though, which I love. Maybe that was the first baby step...ReplyDelete
I love white! Makes everything so clean and fresh looking.ReplyDelete
This is beautiful! BUT. I am pretty sure I'd have a hard time keeping it sparkly and fresh. Babies, you know?ReplyDelete
Your house looks amazing! Haha, I am going to show this to my boyfriend. We are going to paint soon and I want our bedroom white :)ReplyDelete
i love these white walls, but i also love the little snipets i've seen of your colorful house. i think color makes houses feel so cozy.ReplyDelete
I have white walls everywhere... the great thing about them is that you can see where the dirt is to wipe it off. Oh, and that said I do have 5 boys. I love the way that coloured accessories always stand on their own. Lovely post! :)ReplyDelete
oh i'm scared of white! on my walls and on my body! haha! but these ideas look lovely. it really does make the colorful accessories pop.ReplyDelete
it's true. white walls are beautiful. but i'm so scared of kids drawing on them with markers or stains from cooking. but then again, i'm still not married and i don't cook very many saucey foods. maybe in my next apartment i'll go white!ReplyDelete
Ohh I love the white, but I'm the same way, all of my walls are colored. This leaves me longing for white all over again. It just looks so clean and wonderful, especially with the right accessories.ReplyDelete
here's my thought...White room + no natural light = just bland. I mean, I wish they'd do more night pictures - I feel like all my house envy photos are shot at high noon. K& I are into white...couch, walls, dog, we work it in when we can. I feel like I'm going to have to do a total overhaul on the house when we sell it...it's the anti-moutain lodge home of CO.ReplyDelete
i love white dishes!!! i also love a white comforter with colorful sheets :)ReplyDelete
Lovely! The older I get, with each kid, the more simplicity I seek in our living space. Now, I would like to know when you'll be revealing Hunt Hunt's nursery. Or, have you already done that and I missed it?ReplyDelete
isn't it funny how colored walls were so "it" 5-10 years ago.ReplyDelete
i love the white too. it's clean. simple. fresh.
mix it up. the solution is so simple, if you have some white walls with that fresh clean vibe then you need to mix it up by having some sultry walls in deep, rich colors. Do the kitchen and entry in bright white and your bedroom, a deep and vibrant color. Sexy.....ReplyDelete
White gives such a fresh/clean feeling. I love it! Those pictures are awesome with those fun splashes of color mixed in.ReplyDelete
p.s. I made the pasta and blogged about it here http://ahulllotoffun.blogspot.com/2011/07/summer-cookin.html
Thanks for the tips!
my respect for an interior decorator (professional, or a stay-at-home momma like myself;) goes WAY UP when i see them work magic with white walls. it's clean, fresh, and makes other decor pop. great photos :)ReplyDelete
I love the all-white pictures they have online, but I don't think I'd be able to handle it in my own home! Reason #1: I hate cleaning, and they'd probably all turn brown. Reason #2: I have a hairy husband. Although an all-white bedroom would be dreamy, the black hairs all over the sheets would NOT be so pretty! Reason #3: Cat hair. 'Nuff said.ReplyDelete
I love fresh white spaces- the splashes of colour make it home-y too :)ReplyDelete
The thought of white walls used to appal me, but now they are so appealing (and scary at the same time--how will I fill them?) for now I am settling for white accessories:)ReplyDelete
that's an awesome house! I love that blanket with the crosses on it :)ReplyDelete
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Professor Charles Alan Wright, who held the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts, died on July 7, 2000. Professor Wright had served this law school and this University for 45 years, with great loyalty and extraordinary distinction. For many of those years, he was without question the best known and most respected member of the faculty of law.
He is survived by his wife Custis Wright, his son Charles Edward Wright, his daughters Eleanor Clarke, Margot Clarke, Henrietta Wright, and Cecily Fitzsimons, by six grandchildren, and by friends and admirers throughout the world.
Perhaps the first question in a document such as this is what to call him. To his many friendson the faculty, across the nation, and abroadhe was simply "Charlie." That is how we knew him, how we spoke to him, and how we spoke about him. But his own manners were formal, and nearly all his written references to other personswhatever their rank and however close their acquaintancewere by last name and appropriate title. We will follow his own practice here.
Mr. Wright, as he then was, was something of a child prodigy, and so the long career of Professor Wright got off to a very early start. Born in Philadelphia on September 3, 1927, he graduated from Wesleyan University in 1947 and from Yale Law School in 1949, clerked for Judge Charles E. Clark on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and assumed his duties as assistant professor of law at the University of Minnesota in 1950, just before his twenty-third birthday. He was promoted to associate professor in 1953. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 1955, at the age of twenty-seven.
Mr. Wright studied under the mid-century legal realists at Yale, and the best of legal realism is apparent throughout his life's work. A more momentous formative experience came in his clerkship with Judge Clark, who had been the reporter and chief draftsman for the original Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in 1938, and who continued to serve actively in the rulemaking process until 1955. During that clerkship in 1949-50, Mr. Wright and Judge Clark coauthored Mr. Wright's first article on procedure. The origins of Professor Wright's greatest worka lifelong study of legal practice in the federal courts, principally organized around the various sets of federal ruleslie in this apprenticeship with Judge Clark.
Professor Wright's reputation rested first and foremost on his monumental treatise, Federal Practice and Procedure. This is the one indispensable reference work on procedure and jurisdiction in the federal courts. Begun in 1969, by the time of Professor Wright's death it had grown to 57 large volumes, with second and third editions of many volumes and frequent supplements to all the volumes. He recruited a team of distinguished coauthors; the volumes are variously credited to Wright; Wright & Miller; Wright, Miller, & Kane; Wright, Miller, & Cooper; Wright, Miller, & Marcus; Wright & Gold; Wright & Graham. Professor Wright was the one author common to all volumes, the leader and organizer of the whole project.
With one notable exception that is revealing of the man, Professor Wright read every word of every volume. The exception is that he did not participate in preparing the treatise's discussion of any case in which he had participated as counsel, and with respect to the cases in which he had represented President Richard M. Nixon, he did not even read what his coauthors wrote, lest they be influenced by fears of what he might think.
Professor Wright's coauthors have described an active collaboration in which they each worked on their own volumes but he worked on all the volumes. He sent them a stream of queries, suggestions, and new cases for possible inclusion. He reviewed drafts for substance, clarity, and style; he patiently debated substantive disagreements. When he and a coauthor could not agree on a point of substance, he insisted only that the treatise note that there were serious arguments for each position.
It is impossible to overstate the importance of this work. The treatise has been cited more than 50,000 times in on-line texts, periodicals, and judicial decisions (and there are some 10,000 additional on-line citations to his other writings). There are other luminary legal academics with famous treatises, but none that even come close in frequency of citation. His friend Bryan Garner believes, and it is probably true, that Professor Wright is the most-cited human ever to write about law in English. Federal Practice and Procedure is cited so often in part because it deals with procedure, and every litigated case potentially raises procedural issues. But more fundamentally, the work is cited so often because its persuasive authority is universally accepted, and because its explanations of complex matters are so lucid.
This remarkable set of books is but one of the more than 250 entries in Professor Wright's bibliography. He also maintained his casebook on federal courts through ten editions, and his one-volume hornbook on federal courts through five editions. Thousands of law students use these books, and nearly every federal judge keeps the hornbook near at hand. Before beginning his own treatise, he had rewritten seven volumes of an earlier treatise on federal procedure. He published several other books and vast numbers of reviews and occasional pieces. He also kept up an active correspondence with family and friends, and with scores of lawyers, judges, and scholars all over the United States and the English-speaking world.
Professor Wright's reputation also rested in part on his fame as a Supreme Court advocate. He personally argued thirteen cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, including a remarkable series of nine cases from 1968 to 1973. He won ten of the thirteen cases outright, won half his point in another, and lived to see his position substantially vindicated in the two cases he lost.
Professor Wright won two relatively minor Supreme Court cases in 1963, securing reversals on behalf of an injured railroad worker and a mentally ill criminal defendant. He won two more late in his career: in 1987, he successfully defended the free speech rights of a citizen who had been prosecuted for interrupting a Houston police officer, and in 1999, he won a unanimous reversal for a German company caught up in a highly technical jurisdictional dispute about where and whether it could be sued in the United States. Of course these cases were minor only as compared to the range of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. At least four Justices thought these cases presented some issue of national importance or they would not have been decided in the Supreme Court at all.
Professor Wright's run of cases from 1968 to 1973 included three important wins on behalf of criminal defendants: two on the privilege against self-incrimination and one on the speedy trial rights of defendants incarcerated in another state. He successfully defended the power of circuit judicial councils to remove federal judges from active dutyperhaps the only meaningful check on a life-tenured judge who becomes mentally disabled or commits non-criminal misconduct. In his most spectacular success, he argued for reversal of a $145,000,000 default judgment against Hughes Tool Co., winning on an issue that had been unsuccessfully appealed to the Supreme Court eight years before.
The remaining four cases were by any standard landmark decisions in substantive constitutional law: Maryland v. Wirtz in 1968, Oregon v. Mitchell in 1970, Furman v. Georgia in 1972, and San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez in 1973. He represented the states in Maryland v. Wirtz, unsuccessfully arguing that Congress could not subject the states to the Fair Labor Standards Act or to suits to enforce the Act. His claim that the states were immune to such suits is now the law of the land; his claim that applications of federal legislative power are sometimes limited by the sovereignty of states is now one of the Supreme Court's guiding principles.
Professor Wright represented Texas in Oregon v. Mitchell, defending state power to set voting qualifications and challenging federal legislation that lowered the voting age to eighteen. This was his half win; with Justice Black casting the swing vote, the Court held that Congress could set the voting age in federal elections but not in state elections. It took a constitutional amendment to lower the voting age in state elections. Mitchell remains one of the leading decisions on Congressional power to enforce the Civil War Amendments to the Constitution, and here too, the Court has moved in Professor Wright's direction and even beyond. Recent decisions have restricted Congressional power to enforce those amendments further than he approved.
Furman v. Georgia was the case that was supposed to end capital punishment in the United States. Professor Wright appeared in a companion case, Branch v. Texas, decided in the same opinion, and so the consolidated cases became known as Furman. The Court chose to hear three of the many capital cases before it at the time; it chose Branch because of its belief that Professor Wright would represent Texas. To avoid any disappointment, Chief Justice Burger quietly let out the word that the Court wanted Professor Wright, and Texas obliged. Professor Wright lost in Furman/Branch; the Texas capital punishment statute was struck down. But as in Maryland v. Wirtz, the Court's view of the matter soon swung in Professor Wright's direction, and as everyone knows, capital punishment in Texas is again a matter the state can decide for itself. We do not know what Professor Wright thought of the way Texas uses that power, although we do know he cared deeply about the procedural rights of criminal defendants.
Finally, Professor Wright represented the defendant school districts in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, successfully arguing that even extreme local variations in educational funding were beyond the reach of the Equal Protection Clause. This was a case that could easily have gone the other way and thus have triggered a generation of federal litigation over funding local schools. The facts were appealing for the plaintiffs, who attended a desperately underfunded and somewhat gerrymandered school district. The case was decided five to four, with two frequent swing votes (Justices Powell and Stewart) joining the five. This was an argument that mattered more than most.
Professor Wright's 48-page brief mentioned no law until page 25. The first half of his brief was devoted to a careful exploration of the complexities of school finance, and to a showing that the trial court had adopted the solution just proposed in a new book by three professors. Had the Equal Protection Clause really anticipated this newly-created academic theory? Did not the theory require some period of testing and experimentation before being imposed on the country as the only constitutionally permissible solution? He acknowledged that plaintiffs and their academic theorists had opened the eyes of the nation to a serious and previously unrecognized problem, but the search for a solution was just beginning; it could not be solved at a stroke by one Supreme Court decision. The Supreme Court declined to get involved; over a much longer time, and with much trial and error, the Texas courts and the Texas legislature have alleviated the problem.
Professor Wright's most famous and most difficult client was President Richard M. Nixon. Professor Wright represented the President on constitutional issues growing out of the Watergate investigations by Congress and the special prosecutor. For a time he clearly appeared to be the President's lead lawyer, but then there was a shuffling of responsibilities, and he did not argue the case in the Supreme Court. It seems clear that his client lied to him, and it seems equally clear that Professor Wright could not have saved the Nixon Presidency even if he had been given full control of the case. Professor Wright steadfastly refused to comment on his representation of the former President, resisting the temptation to clarify his own role at the expense of a client's confidences. Of all the many things he did in his extraordinarily full life, representing President Nixon was the one thing most visible to the non-legal public, and it became the centerpiece of many of his obituaries.
After United States v. Nixon, Professor Wright greatly reduced his role as an active litigator, although he continued to consult behind the scenes with other lawyers and wrote occasional friend-of-the-court briefs. The cases we have described include two business cases, one personal injury case, and eleven constitutional cases. In Professor Wright's view, these eleven constitutional cases were of a piece. Express civil liberties, federalism, and separation of powers were all means of protecting liberty. His clients might or might not use their liberty wisely, but power concentrated in Congress or any other central body might not be used wisely either, and centralized blunders and abuses were more dangerous than decentralized blunders and abuses. So whether he was defending the free speech rights of a street protestor, the self-incrimination rights of a professional gambler, a state's right to decide for itself about the death penalty or the minimum wage, or even a President's right to keep secrets from Congress and the public, he saw himself as defending the limitation and dispersal of government powers, and thus in the broadest sense, defending the liberties of the American people.
Another large piece of Professor Wright's work was his service to The American Law Institute, a select organization of lawyers, judges, and legal scholars that produces independent studies and summaries of American law. Professor Wright was elected to the Institute in 1958, when he was only thirty. From 1963 to 1969, he served as reporter for the Institute's massive Study of the Division of Jurisdiction Between State and Federal Courts. At the conclusion of that project, he was elected to the Council, the small group that reviews every draft document before its submission to the membership.
For the last seven years of his life, he served as president of the Institute. This required countless trips to Philadelphia for meetings on the Institute's many continuing projects; it required an active correspondence with reporters and members of the Council. And for a week each spring, he would preside over the annual meeting of the membershiphundreds of lawyers, many with strong and sharply divided views, some unwilling to give up when they had lost, some prone to talk too much in any eventdebating book-length analyses of broadly defined topics from the whole range of American law. He presided with authority and aplomb, giving every member a reasonable chance to speak and then pushing the agenda on towards conclusion.
Other public service reflects his prominence, his skills, his expertise, and the range of his knowledge and interests. Professor Wright served for nearly 30 years, under appointments from three different Chief Justices, on various committees to propose revisions of the federal rules of procedure or the statutes granting jurisdiction to the federal courts. He was a frequent speaker at the circuit conferences of federal judges; some federal judges described him as their coach. He served eight years on the permanent committee to supervise the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States, seven years on the Commission on the Bicentennial of the Constitution, ten years on the Committee on Infractions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (five years as chair), and two years as chair of the NCAA Administrative Review Panel.
Professor Wright also served his local community. He served on the vestry of Good Shepherd Episcopal Church and on important committees of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. He served on the boards of the Austin Symphony Orchestra, the Austin Lyric Opera, and the Austin Choral Union. He was a founder of KMFA, the classical music station, and chaired its board for 31 years. He served repeated terms on the boards of St. Andrew's and St. Stephen's Episcopal Schools, and in the early 1960s, he took a leading role in desegregating those schools. He helped found The University of Texas Faculty Club, extracting a commitment that it would not be segregated, and then he organized a successful faculty boycott when the operators failed to honor their commitment.
Professor Wright served the University in many wayson four presidential search committees, in multiple terms on the Men's Intercollegiate Athletics Council, as faculty representative to the NCAA and the Big 12, and on countless law school committees. He was a strong supporter of international programs, and his British connections were important to the creation of the law school's various exchange programs with British universities. In his last federal case, he was an active member of the legal team representing the University in its affirmative action litigation, Hopwood v. Texas. In this representation he encountered a dilemma that few lawyers are ever likely to face, and he resolved it with his own unbending standards of propriety. He participated fully in the drafting of the final round of briefs, but he took his name off the list of counsel, lest there be some hint of impropriety in his submitting a brief to a court that was about to give him an award for service to the federal courts.
Professor Wright was a popular and successful teacher, teaching large sections of Constitutional Law and Federal Courts year after year. And he taught his labor-intensive Supreme Court Seminar, open to exactly nine students, each of whom was assigned to assume the persona of one Supreme Court Justice for the semester, and to speak, vote, and write opinions in actual pending cases as he or she believed that Justice would speak, vote, and write. In 1980, he won the Student Bar Association Teaching Excellence Award.
And then there was his beloved intramural football team, the Legal Eagles. Professor Wright was the founder and longtime head coach; he promoted himself to athletic director in 1991. And he kept records. The Legal Eagles is the longest lasting and most successful intramural team in the history of The University of Texas. In 45 years, the Legal Eagles won 330, lost 44, and tied 5. Their longest winning streak was 40 games; their longest losing streak was 1 game. They won 27 of 35 Law-Grad Division championships, and 7 of 14 All-University championships. The tradition continues today in student hands; the team no longer has a coach.
Perhaps Professor Wright's greatest service to this University was simply that once he came to Texas, he stayed at Texas for the rest of his remarkable career. When he arrived in 1955, the law school was in many ways still a regional institution. It had its share of distinguished and productive professors with national reputations; national law schools regularly tried to raid the Texas faculty. But nearly the entire student body, and more surprisingly, nearly the entire faculty, had Texas roots. Professor Wright, a Republican and Episcopalian from Philadelphia, obviously did not come here in 1955 because of any preexisting affinity for the state.
Over the years he accepted visiting appointments at Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, and Cambridge; but he repeatedly turned down permanent offers and inquiries from other schools, instead lending his immense personal prestige to this law school's climb to greatness. Georgia once nearly lured him away with a well-endowed superchair, but he decided at the last minute that he could not leave Texas. His career at Texas single-handedly raised the stature of the law school; it signaled that a law professor with unlimited choices might choose to spend his career at Texas, and that there were no limits to what a member of this faculty could accomplish.
He of course accumulated many honors in his long career. Among the most significant were the Learned Hand Medal of the Federal Bar Association, the Fordham-Stein Prize of Fordham University, the Distinguished Alumnus Award of Wesleyan University, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from The University of Texas School of Law. He may have especially valued the Clarity Award for Clear Legal Writing, from the Plain English Committee of the State Bar of Michigan. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; more surprisingly, he was also a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
It is difficult to summarize Professor Wright's remarkable productivity in a few pages; it is even harder to capture the man himself in writing. He was devoted to his family and they to him. He had intense, lifelong friendships, nurtured by frequent correspondence and much travel. It is said that you learn much about a person's character by how he treats his secretary; his secretaries praised him beyond measure.
For anyone who first met him in the last 35 years, his reputation preceded him. Professor Samuel Issacharoff of Columbia University spoke for many when he said that he had never known any other human being who "so towered over his particular walk of life." Then when you did meet him, he was physically imposing: tall, broad-shouldered, erect in posture, impeccably dressed, formal in manner, precise in speech. One of his longtime secretaries described the overall effect as "The Aura."
Some, students and faculty alike, were too intimidated to proceed further. And if everyone had imposed on the kindness behind the imposing persona, then either that kindness or his remarkable productivity would have come to an end. But those who were not intimidated found him readily available. His phenomenal memory of cases and his familiarity with the vast store of information in his treatise made him an extraordinary resource for his colleagues. He was nearly always willing to do some new service for the people and institutions he cared about. He answered all his voluminous mail, even the ever-hopeful but often frivolous letters from prisoners, and on at least one occasion, his intervention led to release of an innocent man who had been wrongfully convicted.
Professor Wright had a lively intellectual curiosity that extended far beyond federal procedure or constitutional law. He defined a "true scholar" as one who "cannot stand idle whenever an answerable question remains unanswered," and he published tongue-in-cheek essays on such esoteric trivia as the proper spelling of the apocryphal St. Catherine and the merits of different complimentary closes to various kinds of letters.
Professor Wright was a creature of fixed habits. When in his own office, he ate the same series of lunches in rotation week after week. Every weekday morning, he sat in the same chair in the faculty lounge to read the Wall Street Journal. The chair was not reserved for him by any formal rule, but he always found the chair vacant at the appointed time. He had an extraordinary self-discipline and a prodigious capacity for work, and no doubt his fixed habits helped maintain his productivity.
He had a fully justified confidence in his own abilities; there was no false modesty about him. But behind all the enormous achievement and the grand demeanor, he was at heart a shy man. He generally loved technology but called the telephone "the invention of the devil." He preferred to initiate communications in writingin long letters, in brief hand-delivered notes, by fax machine, or by e-mail. His formal manners and sometimes idiosyncratic conventions were partly just who he was, a manifestation of authentic self, but they were partly a way of routinizing and easing human interactions that seemed to remain a bit daunting for all his greatness. His formality, once you understood it, became an endearing touch, a hint of deeply human vulnerability in a living legend who was larger than life.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg once said that Professor Wright stands "like a Colossus . . . at the summit of our profession." That was trueeven when viewed from the perspective of the Supreme Court of the United States. But as Dean William Powers added, and as Justice Ginsburg promptly agreed, he was also our friend. We miss having a Colossus on the faculty, but even more, we miss our friend.
Larry R. Faulkner, President
The University of Texas at Austin
John R. Durbin, Secretary
The General Faculty
This memorial resolution was prepared by a special committee consisting of Professors Douglas Laycock (chair), Roy Mersky, and L. A. (Scot) Powe.
Distributed to the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, the Executive Vice President and Provost, and the President on March 2, 2001. Copies are available on request from the Office of the General Faculty, FAC 22, F9500.


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As the EU continues to grapple with a variety of existential challenges, it is easy to forget that the European project has some genuinely significant achievements to its name. By far the most important of these is the successful eastern enlargement of 2004 and 2007, which brought eight former communist countries into the European "club", and extended the European zone of peace and relative prosperity to the Baltic region in the north and the Black Sea in the south.
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I thought I'd revisit a piece of work I did a while back and create a stencil from it. Unfortunately I'm not great at stencils and had to Photoshop it beyond all recognition (Ph(u)bar?) just to get it to this stage.
Anyway, it's just a bit of fun.
Anyway, it's just a bit of fun.
do you do freelance work? if so,what are your rates?
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beauty. print that on a black tshirt 4 me? ;}
No plans to mak this into a shirt sorry. It is one of my early faves though.
Any reference to Tank Girl? Has that feel to it, don't know why...
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Ta mate. If you think you can do something more with it then by all means take a shot. Note me if you fancy it.
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Thanks, needs something more though.
I'm a big fan on simple stencils tho, they can stand on the own more sometimes and I reckon your stencil would do just that.
Yeah man, I need to get back into making stencils.. haven't done one in a couple of years haha. Looks nice here though, the colours are cool.
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