A Story for the Ages

In space, no one can hear you scream! Tagline/Alien (1979) Not all senior citizens are alike.  How do I know this?  Personal experience.  I am looking forward to celebrating my mother’s 101st birthday this month.  And, what is becoming less and less unusual for someone her age, she is still quite active and has all her … Read more

Legal TRAPpings

For anyone who, like myself, has been a public sector employee and been interviewed, deposed or testified in a civil or criminal investigation, Monday’s evidentiary hearing in which former chief of staff Mark Meadows and former assistant attorney general Jeffrey Clark make their case to have their pending Fulton County trials assigned to a federal … Read more

Championship at the Potomac River

This weekend marks the end of the 2022-23 PGA Tour season with the third and final event in the FedEx Cup playoffs, the Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta.  The seeding of the remaining 30 players is based on their performance throughout the year and the first two playoff tournaments in Memphis and Chicago.  … Read more

A Candidate Without Convictions

If the Supreme Court, like it did when it declared corporations are people, also claimed words are human beings, “UNPRECEDENTED” would be the leading candidate for Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year 2023.”  Primary among the array of “never before” possibilities is the likelihood the 2024 Republican presidential nominee will be a convicted felon.  Which … Read more

Georgia on My Mind

The National Commission [investigating the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack] finds the attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. was, above all, a failure of imagination. Washington Post/July 22, 2004 What the Commission meant was the U.S. national security apparatus never imagined the three key elements leading up to the attacks on the … Read more