I had only a vague sense of where American Samoa was when my son first suggested that we might spend some of our vacation time there this winter. And, having now returned from our trip, I do have a better understanding of its geography and, perhaps of a few other things about the island that […]
Archives for December 2014
E. Haig’s Reviews of DVDs for Rainy Vacation Days
We found ourselves stuck in our hotel for a couple of days on a recent vacation and took advantage of the “down” time from hiking and otherwise being out and about by watching a half dozen DVDs of films we had missed when they were in theaters. Each, to a greater or lesser extent, was […]
HBO’s “Newsroom” – E. Haig’s Review
Aaron Sorkin is nothing if not a great writer of television series. At least that was the reputation he earned from his writing for the wildly successful “West Wing,” for which he was the principal writer for the show’s first four years (2000-2004). But he may have outdone his reputation with the three-year run of […]
How Grand Jury Decisions Relate to Guilt and Innocence
The recent decisions by grand juries not to indict police officers who were responsible for the deaths of individuals who may not have been threats to the officers have led to large scale protests in many communities across the country. The chocking death by a police officer of one individual has even been protested by […]