When the very wealthy few control the nation’s economy and its politics, it’s called a plutocracy.  And a plutocracy is what the United Stated is fast becoming, if it isn’t there already.             The latest evidence is in the massive losses announced last week by another “too big to fail” financial institution.  This time, […]

            Golf is one of those activities that can absolutely bedevil an otherwise passive soul like me into a state of complete irrationality.  In the almost 50 years I have been playing the game, the number of times I have cursed the forces of nature that cause a well-struck shot to somehow go astray of […]

            In days of old, presidential campaigns didn’t start until Labor Day.  They would then consume the country’s attention for two full months leading up to Election Day in early November.              Presidential campaigns back then were exciting events.  Candidates presented real issues and debated over real proposals to deal with real problems.  (Or at […]

            At the McGeorge School of Law (where, full disclosure, I am a law professor), the law review held a symposium on the twenty-five year Supreme Court tenure of Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy earlier this month.  Kennedy, who has had a long relationship with the law school dating back to the mid 1960s, was not […]