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Regular readers of this blog know something it takes the rest of you only minutes to learn: I am gullible and sometimes a fool. I've been taken in the past 24 hours. So have some of you.
A writer going by the name of Jimmy Jones has posted on these pages. The writer is familiar with the inner...

The anonymous comments on this blog raise interesting questions: Who is sending them? What agenda is being served in each instance? I often don't comment on anonymous posts. Why bother? But one did catch my eye today.
A writer going by the name "John" raised an interesting point about former...

Imagine a world in which workers are not paid enough to live but are given narcotics sufficient to stoke abnormal energy which they can use to work themselves literally to death. Distant overlords profit from the trade in these drugs. The workers are left to rot and die in hidden places, well away...

As of June 2, 2009, the Trial Lawyers College had, for the year 2009, received about $110,000 from the college's top 50 donors. The gifts ranged from $100 to $50,000. Undoubtedly, there were more gifts given by folks who have yet to make the top 50. The 50th person on the list had lifetime gifts...

Make mine XXL:
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Yes, I am spiteful, a man of unclean lips, a sinner, too. But this is just too funny to let pass. It is a mirror for the righteous souls who claim I have unfairly scorned a great institution.

I've been distracted lately. The summer has come and gone, and I've done my share of playing. Now comes a hard fall of trials. And I'm brawling sensely with folks far and wide over things that hardly matter. Time to resume looking at Jesus' parables, I say. Mustn't there be a center that holds...

Oh, what a heart-breaking ending. I won't give it away, I promise. Let me just say this: The last paragraph of Stieg Larsson's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo broke my heart. And the book was so good that almost from the beginning, I was unable to put it down.
I say almost, because Chapter 1...

Cheryl Carpenter posted a recent comment that bears independent commentary. She asked a simple question: When did I decide to post the material about the Trial Lawyers College finances? Since this question has been begged by those who accuse me of hypocrisy, I respond publicly.
I remain...

I have received a copy of the lease between the Spence Foundation and the Trial Lawyers College, together with the college's amended bylaws, minutes of board meetings, and a list of contributors to the college current as of June 2, 2009. At least I think that is what the documents are: They arrived...

The call shocked me. Mark Hurley has been released from prison. He’s done his time and is back at home with his family. Do I have any work for him?
            Mark is a former prosecutor. I’ve known him for many years. He drove hard bargains on behalf of the state,...