I’m expecting this to be my last post on the Schiavo matter. I’ve heard so much crap aimed at demonizing Michael Schiavo, though, that it seemed to me necessary to take one last shot at bringing a little sanity and truth to this sad affair. Frankly, I think those taking shots at Michael Schiavo — […]

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I don’t think it matters what your position on Terri Schiavo was — whether you thought she should have been kept “alive” or not; whether, like me, you thought that regardless of how that question was answered, the rule of law question was more significant, or not — today is a day for grieving. Terri […]

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There’s a lot of talk these days about ethics, morals, moral foundations and immorality. It’s good that we talk about such things. It’s good, too, when we listen. Not everyone has the same take on moral issues. Anyone who has spoken to me would not be surprised at this, since I’m not infrequently at odds […]

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I already know that I’m not going to have time to do any significant blogging today. In lieu of that I suggest perusing older articles of mine you may not yet have read, or you can check out Fact-esque, which has a couple of good articles on Social Security. In particular, you might want to […]

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In the classic movie, The Wizard of Oz, little Dorothy becomes stranded in the land of munchkins, witches, flying monkeys and, of course, the “Wizard” for whom the film is named. Unable to obtain help from “the little people” — the munchkins — and still putting her faith in magic, she follows the advice of […]

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The law school I attend — San Joaquin College of Law — has an agriculturally-oriented law review journal. (For those who don’t know, law reviews are essentially scholarly journals containing articles about legal issues.) Now I have no whit of interest in agriculture. When I was a kid, my mother and I fought constantly over […]

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I have an acquaintance from school who, in some ways, is like me. He espouses liberal ideals. But that’s exactly where the comparison that makes him “like me” ends. In fact, he belongs to a category a professor once described to me: “Liberal by accident of birth.”

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I’m still guest-blogging, so don’t forget that in addition to articles I’m writing here, there’s more at Chepooka and My Left Brain. While writing “Idiot Dust, Fear Dust, or Both?” for My Left Brain today, I said (among other things), In such articles as “Beware of the Dog” and “President Bush: Dishonest? Or Merely Incompetent,” […]

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It seems appropriate to me — this being Sunday, which for most Christians is the day they go to hear preachers — to introduce another “Balaam’s Ass” post. Yesterday, I wrote about the terror of the tsunami that has struck Indonesian countries. I pointed out the incongruity of our willingness to step in with what […]

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The Internet has been flooded — nearly every blogger I visited last week, as well as all the mainstream media — by The Great Tsunami. Consequently, I haven’t felt a need to comment upon it; I didn’t feel I had anything to add that couldn’t be said in comments on other blogs. The more I’ve […]

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