Sometimes being a fan of a professional sports team is sheer agony, and sometimes it’s an absolute joy.  In recent years, being a fan of two particular teams has given me both experiences.             I’ve been a fan of Sacramento’s basketball team, the Kings, since they first arrived in our town in 1985.  And […]

            Sookja Kim Winters was four months into her ninety-third year of life when she died in our home last week.  She had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer three months earlier, and she lived with us from that initial diagnosis until she took her last breath.             Sookie was Jeri’s aunt (her mother’s sister) and […]

            I really didn’t need to have taught appellate advocacy at McGeorge School of Law (for almost ten years now) to be able to grasp the probable result in the Supreme Court’s consideration of the Affordable Care Act.  I knew even before the oral arguments last week that the Court was likely to declare the law […]

            “I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was.” -Geraldo Rivera             Geraldo Rivera didn’t mean what he said.  No one with half a brain could intentionally make such a stupid remark while posing as a news commentator on the national media (except, perhaps, for Rush Limbaugh, […]