The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause …” -Amendment IV, U.S. Constitution As obituaries go, this one wasn’t front-page news. She was 91 years old, and had never been […]
Archives for December 2014
On Police-Created Homicides and the Protests that Follow Them
“Why can’t we all just get along?” -Rodney King I once had a friend who was a seasoned highway patrol officer. In a particularly memorable conversation, he explained to me how he avoided the kind of problems that lead to administrative reviews and related disciplinary action. “I never engage in ‘gotcha’ policing, Ed,” he told […]
Nolan’s “Interstellar” and Kubrick’s “2001”: A Comparison
Christopher Nolan is reported to have first seen Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” when he was seven years old. The experience was impactful, as Nolan then began to shoot films using his father’s Super 8 camera. By the age of eleven, he had determined to be a professional filmmaker. It would be easy to […]
Give Thanks: Life’s Pains and Heartaches are All Relative
She entered my office tentatively, which told me immediately that she was not in a good place emotionally. She was one of my first-year students, and I had sensed all semester that she may not have been adapting to the rigors of law school all that well. I bade her to have a seat across […]