Disney wasn’t bluffing. It will say “gay.” As its feud with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis heats up, Disney scuttled its $1 billion+ campus that would have brought more than 2,000 jobs to Florida with an average annual salary of $120,000. Disney, a company that employs over 75,000 people in Central…

I was delighted to learn CNN was hosting and broadcasting a fundraiser for DJT to support his candidacy and GOP nomination for POTUS in 2024. Stuck in a silo of my own making, I was much too busy to tune in, keeping an eye on my sleeping cat — momentarily…

The Chief Justice makes a mere $277,700 per year. Associate Justices make only $265,600. That’s not enough to even squeak by. They live in the Washington D.C. metro area, after all. Have you seen what a decent meal costs in Georgetown, even without cocktails and wine? They could be making…

Shortly after her nineteenth birthday Reneé became the lifelong muse of a her husband Richard, a visual artist. She passed on March 10, 2016. She would be 90 on May 7. That day is also her great granddaugher Brooklyn’s birthday. The painting above is among my favorites in the Reneé…

In the U.S., plain and direct speech in dissent, the clearly protected kind, has become a ‘trigger’ for retaliation by the fascist-minded who hold power. See A Sinister New Page in the Republican Playbook. Taking a page from Tennessee, the Montana legislature is the latest to bring national attention on…

In Bible Believers v. Wayne County, the ACLU — yes, that ACLU — filed an amicus brief in support of protesting evangelists who were threatened with arrest if they did not leave the 2012 Arab International Festival in Dearborn, Michigan. Agreeing with the ACLU’s position, the Sixth Circuit Court of…

One of my former law partners, a brilliant trial lawyer and mentor who is now retired, spent the first part of his career prosecuting federal tax crimes and the latter part defending people charged with those and similar crimes. He sent me a link to the remarks Vladamir Kara-Murza gave…

Since the seventeenth century, a fundamental axiom of Anglo-American law has been that ‘no man shall be a judge in his own case.’ In matters of judicial ethics, conflicts of interest, and compromise, however, each justice on the U.S. Supreme Court is just that. Unlike every other federal judge in…

Many of the following of my father’s paintings evoke thoughts of renewal. Enjoy!