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Appellate Law, Judges, and even a little death penalty and federalism
I've been giving a lot of thought recently to the role of appellate courts and judges and what it means about our cultural values in a kind of Faulkneresque way...Trial judges decide cases that come in front of them. They're sitting in the room, they see the...
On the Evil of Corporations
I was walking up to Starbucks the other day and I was thinking about something for work - my perpetual state - and I had some leftist rant I'd just read in my mind. I'd read an article and one of the standard, throwaway memes of the author was that "corporations" are...
Those really were the best of days: On parents and teenage angst
I've survived two teenage daughters - (I feel like I've earned a tee-shirt with that printed on it) - except that I've got two more to go. My last two live with me (their mom and I are divorced) and are a senior and junior in high school, respectively. No tee-shirt...
Politics, Economics, and Philosophy (Oh, my!)
Where to begin with this bold a title....?Interestingly, I'm finding increasing clarity in my life (philosophically, anyway) as I get older, while my life gets increasingly complex. It's not what I would have expected.The government attempted to roll out its new...
The Right to Stagnate
"For every living species, growth is a necessity of survival... an animal's capacity for development ends at physical maturity and thereafter its growth consists of the action necessary to maintain itself at a fixed level... it does not, to any significant extent,...