Missing from most law school curricula is perhaps the most important course of all “The Law of Unintended Consequences.” Consider that in the 90s the tech-bubble along with housing prices grew like topsy. Suddenly many middle-class Americans found themselves to be millionaires, at least on paper. At the same time [...]
Last year about this time (February 2015) I wrote about the “Death with Dignity,” proposed legislation, and tried to convey just how corrosive to human dignity and the sanctity of life it actually was. It died, I am proud to report, an ignominious death. This year it’s back, sporting a [...]
It’s been my privilege to be brought alongside a number of military families who have cared for adult disabled children all of their lives. The selflessness, love, patience, perseverance and yes, courage of these families leaves me in awestruck admiration. Greater love hath no one . . . The reason [...]
. . . fell in the forest and nobody and nothing was there to hear it? That old canard is thought to be a philosophical poser, but more recently has been evolved into arguments for relativism, for anthropogenic creationism, and has even found its way into quantum theory, much like [...]
When the Commander Errs: The Article 138 Complaint Last month we talked about the disparity between the integrity expected of governmental figures and bureaucrats and the integrity demanded of the uniformed service on pain of punitive UCMJ action. This month I’d like to draw the curtain back on a little [...]
“Oh, so you’re a vet. Me too– ‘Nam. I was a SEAL doing Mekong river patrols in the DMZ. Also worked as a LRRP in Project Phoenix. Charlie shot me up pretty bad, too. Got a Purple Heart and two Silver Stars.” Ever run across a “vet” like that? Okay, [...]
“Oh, so you’re a vet. Me too– ‘Nam. I was a SEAL doing Mekong river patrols in the DMZ. Also worked as a LRRP in Project Phoenix. Charlie shot me up pretty bad, too. Got a Purple Heart and two Silver Stars.” Ever run across a “vet” like that? Okay, [...]
Ken Kesey’s 1964 novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, tells the story of a proud and hardscrabble lumbering family in Oregon who live–and die–with the oft-spoken motto, “never give a inch.” The title is somewhat intriguing, though. Far from uplifting, Kesey’s “great notion” refers to the dark lyrics of Huddie “Leadbelly” [...]