Houston, we have a problem. As serial adulterer Attorney General Ken Paxton introduces legislation to ensure every Texas school child invokes God’s blessing by reciting the Lord’s Prayer, there’s this one small difficulty. And of course, the same problem shows up anywhere religion is officially mandated. Actually, there are several problems, but first the main…
When I was seventeen I took a job at the local sawmill. I was on the picket crew, our job being to turn leftovers from the lumber side into usable pickets for survey stakes and snowfences. It was neither pretty nor elegant, and it was clearly noisy and dangerous. The saw band was exposed and…
Hopefully, this won’t get me too much hate mail. I don’t intend to defend or put down any particular position, simply to point out that nobody really owns a righteous corner on this subject, and we all need to ponder it at a very personal level. At the literal end of the day, these are…
Let’s call a spade a manually actuated excavation device. Why? Well, I can think of at least four reasons. First, “spade” sounds like “spayed”, which is what we say of a lady dog who has lost her bits. Indirectly, it’s a sex word, and we never actually say sex words, we always use euphemisms. But…
Hopefully, this won’t get me too much hate mail. I don’t intend to defend or put down any particular position, simply to point out that nobody really owns a righteous corner on this one, and we need to ponder it at a very personal level. My thinking here was triggered by a recent Atlantic Magazine…
For most of us, the central bank is much like the sun – we know it’s there and understand that it mostly does us good, but otherwise know little about it. Now if some alien power came along and began tinkering with our sun, changing the amount or quality of radiation it produces, we’d all…
It’s said, quite correctly, that nature abhors a vacuum. If you create a gap, something will rush in to fill it. This is most true in our lives, personally and professionally, and explains why those who live with purpose tend to be happier and more successful than those who stumble from one random happenstance to…
Anyone who has known me for more than ten minutes knows I’m not much of a fan of the Great Orange One. What might not be as apparent is that my disdain for this abysmal wannabe tyrant is not primarily with his political positions. Because he has none. Like everything in Trump’s life, it’s all…
Lawyers who think they have a slam-dunk case usually come to grief. With their clients, with the courts, with their peers, and ultimately with themselves. And those lawyers who know better themselves but let their clients think they have a cakewalk are no wiser. By the time a contentious matter gets to your desk it…
International mutual duplicity is nothing new. On August 24, 1939, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov for the Soviet Union and Joachim von Ribbentrop for Nazi Germany signed the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, generally known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Agreement. By it, Russia and Germany not only agreed not to attack…