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The following was reported today on Wierd World News. It is a perfect illustration of the sort of silliness than comes of branding folks as sex offenders.
Apparently one of the folks volunteering to answer letters to Santa Claus is a registered sex offender. Hence, the United States Postal...

I am a CIA reject. Almost thirty years ago, I was a candidate to become an undercover operative, or spy. I interviewed with agents fresh from assignments in Moscow and South Korea in hotel rooms at Manhattan’s Algonquin Hotel. I took aptitude tests at an anonymous looking building in Reston,...

Plenty of money was generated at Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College last weekend at an auction of Spence memorabilia. A used leather jacket of Spence’s, replete with a hole in the pocket, went for more than $10,000. A roll-top desk went for $3,000.There were photos, books and art...

So just how crazy do you have to be to forfeit the right to represent yourself at trial?
Consider the case of State v. Connor, just published last month. Mr. Connor was suffering, at a minimum, from an achy-breaky heart and had unresolved issues with his ex-wife. So he did the only thing...

I will not go so far as to say that I wish I were a state employee. That would be going too far. I've been self-employed far too long to want to work for any else, much less the state. But check out the list of the state's top wage earners. There's good money to be made in public service....

The parable of the doorkeeper is found in Mark's Gospel, chapter 13:34-36.
"[For the Son of man is] as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
" Watch ye therefore: for ye know not...

I am an irresolute man. On the one hand, I am inclined to think "x"; but then, he other hand comes along and "y" seems to be the case. I always resolve to be resolute come the New Year, but resolution never comes. I just end up looking stupid.
I am glad I am not alone in this regard. Simple...