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Ryan Braun, Drug Testing, Guilt, and Due Process – Part 1
Whew! That Ryan Braun guy sure got lucky, eh? For those who don't follow baseball or sports, Ryan Braun is the amiable slugger from the Milwaukee Brewers who won the National League's Most Valuable Player award last season (2011). Sometime before that as announced, it...
Politics, Populism, and Private Property
Okay, here we go. This ought to earn me some enmity. Today, the first post on politics - specific stuff, not just generally. Dirtier than a 900 chat line.Someone asked me once what my politics were and my stock reply, which I thought a lot about beforehand...
Driving Rant
Okay, this has been building up for a while. This is not for the faint of heart. It is likely to contain profanity.Because of the distance from my best friend, my daughters (two of whom reside with my ex-), and one in college, I spend an inordinate amount...
SPOILER ALERT - A LEGAL POST! Why do we have to prove someone is guilty of a crime by the standard "beyond a reasonable doubt?" Those words do not appear anywhere in our Constitution; not in the Bill of Rights, nor in any federal enactment. (I'll let you...
Where did that month go?
So, this is what it's like to be an adult, eh?I remember when I was younger one of the chief attractions of being "older" was the thought that then I would be "in charge" of my life. No more of mom and dad's rules, I could stay up as late as I wanted, eat...