From Bork to Bove - The Destruction of the Judicial Confirmation Process
On October 20th, 1973, Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Mr. Cox was the special prosecutor...
Destroying the First Amendment - Without Breaking any Laws
If you’d like to skip to the end, the method is money. Journalism and media are in a perilous state - one we haven’t seen in our lifetimes. Major media...
Kilmar Abrego Updates
After moving and my second bout with Covid, I’m healthy again and settled in. Obviously there has been a boatload of news since you last heard from me and...
The Liberation of Los Angeles
By now you have undoubtedly seen what’s been happening in response to ICE protests in Los Angeles. Police and federal law enforcement there have done what...
Quick updates
I'm currently in the middle of a move and have no Internet access at home any more. Will have a longer update once the move is over but wanted to throw out...
When is a Pile a Pile?
A philosophical construct, the sorites paradox, asks this simple question. Take a heap of sand. Remove grains one by one. At some point, the heap will no...
Tin Soldiers and Nixon Comin'
55 years ago this week, students gathered on the campus of Kent State in Ohio to protest the illegal expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. Four people,...
Quick Updates on Abrego Garcia and the Other Men Sent to El Salvador
One of the cases regarding Abrego Garcia moved into discovery today and that judge is considering whether to hold the government in contempt over their...
Corruption, Fake Deaths, and Lawyers Having a Very Bad Day
I’d hoped to have a piece out tonight about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but the last few filings in both cases concerning him have been filed under seal. Is that...
Trump's Terrible Court Day
I am working on a longer update on Abrego Garcia but I wanted to touch on one thing quickly to illustrate what sort of incompetency and animus we are dealing...
The Ridiculous Tariff Equation
Economics and math can be quite scary! I have a science and engineering background and even I can look at an equation and get overwhelmed. Here is the...
A Quick Followup on Tariffs
Several of the places we hit with “reciprocal” tariffs don’t have tariffs on US goods or even do not trade with the United States whatsoever. It was bizarre...
Hope, Despair, and Taxes
I had two recent conversations recently with friends who are not doing ok with the state of the country being what it is. I am not in a great place myself. I...
How to Dismantle a Democracy in Two Easy Steps
Our founders should not be venerated in the way they typically are, but they did an excellent job in structuring the US government so as to avoid...
America's Open Embrace of Racism
Occasionally while working on an update, I come across something so maddening, I’m stopped in my tracks. Jumping to the chase, the anti “DEI” purge by the...
King Trump - Part 2
That about summarizes the past week. Keep reading if you’d like more specifics. On Tuesday Donald Trump posted an AI-generated music video about his solution...
King Trump - Part 1
(There’s simply been too much breaking news to keep up with but I want to start getting stories out so I’m breaking this into chunks until I’m caught up.) On...
Mitt Romney on the Moral Cowardice of the Republican Party
Heard any news lately? I’m a bit behind on my latest update as I’m trying to pare down the SIXTY breaking stories I have bookmarked to include in the next...
The First Week
On this day in 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded less than two minutes after takeoff, killing all seven astronauts aboard. The technical cause was...
A Dictator for a Day
Convicted felon Donald Trump once addressed concerns that he wanted to be a dictator by saying he would only be a dictator for the first day of his second...
