My Baseball Caps
2016-02-28 – I own a lot of baseball caps. I have college caps and political caps and travel caps. I don’t really like to wear hats, but they are often […]
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Teachers Are Great, But They’re Not the Only Ones
2016-02-25 – I’ve had some great teachers. I’ve also had some that were less than great. Great or less than great, I admire people who have devoted their lives to […]
The Tweet of the Chickadee
2016-02-23 – Yesterday morning I hear the call of a chickadee. I don’t really know bird calls. I had to look it up. Unlike most bird calls, I could remember […]
Arresting Politicians
2016-02-21 – In Illinois we usually arrest our politicians at the conclusion of their term as governor. Some folks believe that a term in prison is simply part of our […]
I Trust Hillary, Sayeth This Bernie Supporter
2016-02-18 – The trust issue in this year’s presidential campaign astounds me. The Republican machine has been attacking Hillary Clinton nonstop for years. They are experts at undermining trust. They […]
Originalism, an “Enduring” (i.e., Dead) Principle of Constitutional Law
2016-02-16 – You hear snippets when you’re in the car. The snippet I want to tell you about was a guy denying that Justice Antonin Scalia’s constitutional viewpoint was based […]
The Angry Middle
2016-02-14 – I’ve seen a lot of electronic ink spilt recently saying that the voters of both parties are going for the extremes. Republicans are supposedly going for the extreme […]
Can We Afford Single-Payer?
2016-02-11 – President Obama’s signature achievement is Obamacare. Republicans like to say that Obamacare is an unprecedented expansion of the federal government. Everything is unprecedented. But if Obamacare is what […]
Cop “Feared the Le Grier Would Strike Him”?
2016-02-09 – There’s a peculiar lawsuit pending in the Circuit Court of Cook County. It is the counterclaim of Chicago cop Robert Rialmo against the estate of Antonio LeGrier, a […]
Premium Water from Your Tap
2016-02-07 – This week Gov. Chris Christie signed into law a statute called the Water Infrastructure Protection Act. This law would fast-track the privatization of municipal water systems in New […]
