If you are a golfer, especially if you are a serious golfer, there is probably no more hallowed course (at least within an easy day’s drive of Sacramento) than Pebble Beach.  Located on the Monterey Peninsula about 90 miles south of San Francisco, it is the annual site of the AT&T National Pro-Am (formerly the […]

As a former trial attorney, I rarely pay attention to the media circuses that surround major trials.  I find the coverage of these trials exceedingly shallow and the reporting on what each side is and is not doing only slightly more enlightening than what passes for legal analysis on series like “CSI” and “Law and […]

As the Music Circus, Sacramento’s main claim to fame for summer musicals that are professionally produced in the round, opens its eleventh season at the Wells Fargo Pavilion, we thought we’d take a shot at selecting the ten best productions at that venue.  And, as is always the case, limiting a “best” list to ten […]

Remember the debate about waterboarding?  It developed when, during the Bush administration’s prosecution of the “war on terror,” news accounts revealed that certain terrorist suspects had been subjected to that “enhanced interrogation” technique so as to elicit information about planned future attacks. The argument in favor of the technique had two main points.  The first […]