As an attorney with 11 years of trial experience, I found Christine Ford’s testimony about her alleged attempted rape by Brett Kavanaugh to be convincing and compelling. Any lawyer with even half that experience would, if they were not being nakedly partisan, agree. Contrary to what random people on the Internet will tell you, this […]
Read moreBrett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation is a Farce
Most people will watch the Brett Kavanaugh hearing today in order to see whether Christine Ford or Kavanaugh is more believable as they testify about the alleged sexual assault that has led us here. As they weigh the witnesses’ credibility, they should remember that they need not rely solely on the “he said, she said” […]
Read moreUNC’s Football Stadium: Memorial to the Leader of a White Supremacist Massacre
Photo by William Yeung via Wikimedia Commons On Saturday the University of North Carolina football team will host the Pitt Panthers in their home opener, kicking off the Tar Heels’ 92nd season in Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill. Almost none of the 40,000+ fans who will show up have any idea who the stadium […]
Read moreBrett Kavanaugh, Character and Fitness
Judge Brett Kavanaugh is nearing confirmation to become the next Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. As you likely know by now, he has also been accused of sexual assault when he was in high school. The story of his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, can be read in The Washington Post. The […]
Read moreThe Pappy Van Winkle Heist That Wasn’t
This story was originally written for Bloomberg BusinessWeek over the summer. Instead of running it they turned it into a highly-truncated cartoon thing that, being honest, was pretty darn clever and probably more appropriate for the subject matter than a 3,000-word story.Still, I’d like to have the words I wrote for it all preserved someplace, […]
Read moreDrug exec: “is is a moral requirement to make money when you can”
A drug company CEO raised the price of an antibiotic 400%. He justified it by saying the following: I think it is a moral requirement to make money when you can . . . to sell the product for the highest price . . . I agree with Martin Shkreli that when he raised the […]
Read moreHunter S. Thompson nailed this one
Hunter S. Thompson had long since lost his fastball by 9/11. Within three and a half years he’d be dead. But what he wrote on 9/12/01 — like so much of what he wrote when the stakes were truly high — was dead on the fucking money. The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, […]
Read moreThe New York Times Op-Ed writer is no hero of the resistance
When Donald Trump became a credible political figure in the run-up to the 2016 election a lot of Republicans tried to distance themselves from him. For months the line was that he wasn’t really a Republican. He didn’t believe in Republican principles and policies, so he couldn’t be. Some Republicans I know even claimed he was actually […]
Read moreArguments from Authority
My daughter texted me from school today. She was in her freshman humanities class which is basically an English/social studies mashup. Anna texts me from school a lot. When she does so it’s usually the best part of my day. Today, like most days, it was because she wanted to share something funny with me. […]
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