Dear Fellow Dodgers Fans: With the victory of our hated rivals in yet another World Series, it’s time for us to admit that they are just better than us. Yes, I know that we won 94 games in the regular season to their 88 and that we beat them in September to win another division […]

              During my years as a criminal defense attorney I often found myself shocked at the degree to which minor, non-violent criminal offenses were intensely prosecuted by all levels of the criminal justice system.  I certainly did represent some nasty individuals over those years, but I also had more than my share of reasonably normal […]

              I guess because I tend to write about cutting edge issues, I have had a number of readers of late suggest to me that I should explore the likelihood that al Qaeda (or any other terrorist group) is plotting to infect millions of Americans with the Ebola virus.  One reader even surmised that the […]

              Every now and then, I reflect on the plight of the thinking, otherwise rational, truth-seeking, true believer.  At such times, as a thinking, rational, truth-seeking non-believer, I almost feel superior, freed as I am from the kind of questions that my faith-based opposites must contemplate and resolve in order to maintain their faith and […]