I don’t remember all the words to the old Jim Croce song. I know you don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t spit in the wind, and something about a land war in Asia. Apparently, you also don’t express doubt about the existence of God on Facebook.
This all began…
If you ever visit another planet (I recommend Mercury!) and want to prove to the inhabitants there that humans are stupid, show them our laws. A deep-dive, or shallow-dive, or even a toe-waddle into any of our state or federal statutes will reveal thousands of examples of laws that are…
“He hit me first!”
From the time we were small children we intuited that defending yourself was a legitimate justification for violent action against another person. Although, technically, “he hit me first” isn’t self-defense. It’s revenge. In the future, I’d go with “He started it!”.
In the past few weeks…
What is the last big problem America solved? I mean, other than Facebook not being a Metaverse. That was clearly a big one! Thanks God! No, I mean, what was the last big problem that we came together as a nation and, using our political system, addressed in a serious…
Faith is a firm and devout belief in something you know ain’t true
- Mark Twain -
This is a true story. On May 21st, 2011, I was in Central Park in New York City with my wife and a couple of friends. That happened to be the day when…
We’ve all heard the cliche that there are “lies, damn lies, and statistics”. Well, in the context of political reform, there are blunders, meshugganah blunders and term limits (I’m quite sure this cliche will soon sweep the nation).
Term limits for elected officials are often sold as some sort of…
If there’s one issue that everyone in this divided country agrees on, it’s “political reform”. It is the newly-painted wall of American discourse, you don’t want to be against it. (I came up with that metaphor all on my own!). …
When I was a lawyer in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, I was occasionally called upon to defend something that made people angry. Needless to say there was the usual assortment of cannibals, war-criminals and human blood-sacrifice enthusiasts.
Sometimes I would even kick it up a notch with cases involving the likes…
Imagine you have tomorrow off. And the next day. And the next 30 years. It sounds pretty awesome. But maybe sitting around all day, binge-watching HGTV and picking nacho-cheese Dorito crumbs out of your chest hair doesn’t thrill you as much as it thrills me. Fair enough, you can do…
I am not a particularly religious person, in the same way that a MAGA rally is not “particularly” diverse. Really, the only time I make any reference to anything alleged to be divine is when I use “OMG” in my Twitter replies, or when I yelled “JESUS CHRIST!” that time…
