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…
Less than six months before the outbreak of the Second World War, the German ocean liner MS St. Louis left the port of Hamburg for Cuba. Nearly all 937 passengers on board were Jewish, literally fleeing for their lives in the face of Hitler’s Holocaust. The plan was that they would land in Cuba as…
In Schrödinger’s famous but not always accurately reported thought experiment, a cat is sealed in a box with a radioactive atom, a flask of poison, and a hammer poised to break the flask. If the atom decays, a Geiger counter detects it and trips the hammer which breaks the flask, releasing the poison to kill…
Back in the day when I was still doing some matrimonial trials, I had a case which should have lasted, at most, one-day. In fact, it should never have gone to trial at all, it was so eminently settleable. The kids in this farm family were nearly grown up and custody and access were not…
As most readers will have discerned, I was raised Evangelical, many decades ago when evangelicalism was consistent with the merciful and joyous “good news” of a “Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild”. Those days are long gone, but memories of them remain. A standby of growing up evangelical was the Saturday edition of the Radio Bible…