Respect Your Betters, Peon!
Chris McNutt, executive director of the nonprofit group Texas Gun Rights, blames Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen for a Constitutional...
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Bennett & Bennett
bennettandbennett
- Apr 5, 2019
- 5 min
Why
American Lawyer Media’s Angela Morris, interviewing me for this article, asked me why I am fighting Texas’s revenge-porn statute. Since...
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bennettandbennett
- Nov 20, 2018
- 2 min
Another Model of Charisma
I’ve talked about the power + presence + warmth model of charisma, and about Tshkay and colleagues’ affability + influence model, in...
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bennettandbennett
- Nov 1, 2018
- 2 min
The Brief of a Lifetime
Back in May the Tyler Court of Appeals held Texas’s revenge-porn statute, section 21.16(b) of the Texas Penal Code, unconstitutional. I’d...
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bennettandbennett
- Oct 29, 2018
- 1 min
Things to Make Congruent
This is a note, extracted from the preceding post for special attention later. For charismatic leadership, all of these should be...
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bennettandbennett
- Oct 29, 2018
- 5 min
A Charismatic Leadership Loop
Thomas Sy and Calen Horton of University of California, Riverside; and Ronald Riggio of Claremont McKenna College, propose this model of...
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bennettandbennett
- Oct 28, 2018
- 2 min
So What Was That About?
Here I solicited your self-ratings in six areas: Has a presence in a room. Has the ability to influence people. Knows how to lead a...
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bennettandbennett
- Oct 26, 2018
- 1 min
Do This For Me
On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is Strongly Disagree and 5 is Strongly Agree, please rate how much you agree that each of these six items...
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bennettandbennett
- Oct 26, 2018
- 3 min
Some Thoughts on Loops in Interpersonal Relationships
Continuing our exploration of loops … Some loops are entirely internal. For example, Zeigarnik discovered her effect by observing a...
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bennettandbennett
- Oct 25, 2018
- 2 min
Loops, Charisma, and War
I’ve been thinking about loops. I wrote about loops here, and in the intervening nineteen months I’ve come to a better understanding of...
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bennettandbennett
- Sep 7, 2018
- 2 min
Follow Up on MGA Garage Door Yelp Laundering
Brad commented on Spotting Review Yelp Laundering: If you check the WHOIS for MGA (whose physical address on Yelp is an apartment...
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bennettandbennett
- Sep 5, 2018
- 5 min
Spotting Yelp Review Laundering (Houston’s MGA Garage Door)
The left torsion spring on our garage door broke, so I looked for a replacement part. I called MGA Garage Door in Houston, and was told...
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bennettandbennett
- Sep 3, 2018
- 3 min
… I Hate People
This weekend my kid and I took a machining class, learning the basics of running a milling machine. The instructor, a Greenfield-grade...
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bennettandbennett
- Aug 27, 2018
- 2 min
Please Explain this Scam
Every month or so for about the last year I’ve received an email purportedly marketing “estimators,” “estimating services,” or “material...
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bennettandbennett
- Aug 11, 2018
- 7 min
Are Jury Trials Alive and Well in Texas?
And I think it’s obvious that >95% of criminal convictions—including people who later turn out to be incontrovertibly innocent—being...
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bennettandbennett
- May 15, 2018
- 3 min
The State’s Embarrassing Revenge-Porn Briefs
(b) A person commits an offense if: (1) without the effective consent of the depicted person, the person intentionally discloses visual...
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bennettandbennett
- May 6, 2018
- 3 min
Free Speech: It’s Not That Complicated.
“The First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech does not extend only to categories of speech that survive an ad hoc balancing of relative...
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bennettandbennett
- Apr 26, 2018
- 3 min
Two Wins to Sandwich that Loss
I wrote yesterday about a loss, so I hope you’ll indulge me in talking about two recent wins, one before the loss and one after. A couple...
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bennettandbennett
- Apr 26, 2018
- 3 min
Add 43.262 to The List
This is a truly bizarre law. It presumes that there is “an interest in sex” that is not prurient. We are not sure what kind of interest...
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bennettandbennett
- Apr 26, 2018
- 1 min
Randy Sorrels for State Bar President
I don’t think I’ve ever voted in a State Bar election. I’ve certainly never endorsed a candidate. But I feel compelled to endorse a...
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