The Goodson Blogson

The Goodson Blogson has been in the holiday gift guide game since 2009 , but we are hardly the first. Last year, we featured excerpts from the Duke Law student newspaper Devil's Advocate containing humorous legal gift suggestions from the 1960s. This year, we stumbled across a legal gift guide with wider reach in the library stacks. Nearly 50 years ago, Juris Doctor , a lifestyle magazine for lawyers published in the 1970s, featured an irreverent last-minute holiday gift guide in its December 1975 issue. Credited to freelance journalist Regina Nadelson (who, best we can tell, went on to greater fame as mystery novelist and nonfiction author Reggie Nadelson ), "Gifts No One Else Will Think Of" featured a grab bag of shopping suggestions, from the thoughtful (vintage bottles of wine, fancy chocolates, autographs of favorite historical figures), to the practical (a "booklite" for reading in bed, a white-noise machine, fine linens), to the aspirational (trips aro