California Highway Patrol members stand watch at the Golden Gate Bridge in preparation for possible May Day protests in San Francisco, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Protesters had backed away from a call to block the bridge. But scores of California Highway Patrol officers nonetheless… Read full post »

 

 

 

 

I found this on the internet and thought I would share it with you.

 

 

Many on the radical right claim that the US government and economy is "socialist." I disagree.

I think the US government and economy is currently very… Read full post »

 

 

I was reading the wikipedia entry on the Breton Language and found the history of the language to be quite fascinating. I did not know that a major celtic language was spoken in one of the major regions of France. Furthermore, I would have assumed that such a language… Read full post »

 

^{Last year, I wrote a story about the 19th century Poor Laws in Britain. These laws did many things to hurt the poor, such as mandate workhouses, remove the poor from the countryside and prohibit secular and sectarian granting of alms and charity for the destitute.}

 http://www.open.salon… Read full post »

Science fiction tells us more about ourselves than we would like.

 For example, in the 1950s, science fiction was all about aliens invading America from the sky. They used death rays, destroyed entire cities and engaged in "body snatching" and brain-washing to conquer America. 

Sociologist… Read full post »

I am an attorney and do a lot of municipal court work.

One day I was at court and it was very cold outside. Raining, in fact, and the temperature was hovering around the freezing mark. 

Many people were thus cramped into a small waiting room, waiting for the courtroom… Read full post »

Who is better, Odysseus or Achilles?

 These were the two major heroes in the Homeric epics. They each accomplished their major objectives and were lauded for it by their countrymen. 

That said, they each had their strengths and weaknesses. 

Odysseus was clever and intelligent, but he… Read full post »

 

I found this on the internet, and thought I would share it with you. 

The text on the bottom states: "Wall Street gets bailed out first, while "normal" Americans wait on the wings for their liferaft."

Sound familiar? Class privilege is all around us, if only we open… Read full post »

Snobby Coach-bag girl

        Fancy clothes, nose in the air

                                  &… Read full post »

Cold, damp, rainy day.

 Enjoying my lunch break by a window. 

Drinking a warm cup of coffee,

   watching 

         water drops drip off a tree limb

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I think its sad and unfortunate that corporate America and the United States government wholly assign medical research grants and funding, according to a disease's prevalence.

Congress feels that we should only fund medical research that benefits the greatest number of people. Corporate America feels… Read full post »

I was driving to Court yesterday and heard an interesting exchange on the radio.

A conservative economist was discussing how state and municipal governments throughout the northeast were going bankrupt, due to the allegedly high wages of policemen, firemen, paramedics and other first responders.&nbs… Read full post »

 

 

Mafia capos, Dons and footsoldiers once went to jail for buying judges and politicians, for charging people more than 10% interest on loans, and for running widespread gambling and prostitution operations. When business was hurt by would-b… Read full post »

Yesterday, I represented a recent Mexican immigrant in a traffic proceeding. He was working at a construction site and barely speaks a word of English.

He doesn't have an American drivers' license, but his employer requires him to drive a pickup truck, pursuant to his duties on the construction site… Read full post »

I have just finished reading Kissinger's book "Diplomacy," as well as parts of Winston Churchill's book "The Gathering Storm." Kissinger's book is excellent and although I have reservations about the majority of Churchill's multivolume WW2 series, I found his insights regarding Munich in the series'… Read full post »

I was thinking the other day about Russia. They certainly had every reason to be paranoid during the Cold War, did they not? They were invaded numerous times during the 20th century by Western powers and proxies.

They were attacked and defeated by Germany in World War One. … Read full post »

I've been thinking about the interplay of internet monitoring, internet privacy, blogging, political activism software/cinema/music recording piracy and the like.

 On the one hand, the United States government and its allies in the West love political freedom and criticize nations like China tha… Read full post »

Every conservative I hear these days is telling me that the European debt crisis "proves" that socialism and the classic European-style "social welfare state" is a total failure. They say that European-style "socialism" only creates poverty, escalating debt and a one-way ticket to a "soup kitchen," b… Read full post »

Here is an awesome article I just found about that nasty UC policeman who peppersprayed those innocent OWS protesters. I have copied the  majority of the article, from "Dangerous Minds," for your reading pleasure, as well as the accompanying photos.

---------------------------------------------… Read full post »

I am strongly considering starting my own law firm within the next year or so, but don't have the slightest idea how to do this. Does anybody have advice on starting a small business? What stinks is that you can't get a small business loan from a bank, for purposes of… Read full post »

I was in Court yesterday waiting in the attorney pews for my case to be heard and a funny thing happened. 

The judge here is in his 70s and he was an old, grey-haired authoritarian judge. The kind that doesn't go for nonsense in his courtroom. He is an honest, good/…

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1. Why didn't Hannibal take Rome, if he was in Italy for 15 years? I mean, what the hell? He wastes them repeatedly at battles like Lake Trasimene, Cannae and the like, and he still can't take Rome. I've heard some people say this is because he lacks siege equipment, but… Read full post »

"When Fascism comes to America, it will come under the guise of Anti-Fascism." ---Upton Sinclair

 

I was just talking to a First Amendment lawyer at the courthouse. He says there are major challenges to the Patriot Act currently taking place all around the nation and was discussing various case… Read full post »

 

 I found this online. Thought I would share.

 

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"...We are face to face with new conceptions of the relations of property to human welfare, chiefly because certain advocates of the rights of property as against the rights of men have been pushing their claims too far. The man who wrongly holds that every human right is secondary to his… Read full post »