I’m sad to say that this is my last post for the blog. I started this blog together with my solo law practice. But I am moving abroad soon and will be closing down my law practice as well. So I think it’s fitting that I should call it quits with the blog since the
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Freedom’s Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose
If freedom means anything it means the right to commit violence in another person’s name. This is a lesson that’s been passed on from one generation to the next since the time this country was first founded. And it’s starting to bear fruit like there’s no tomorrow. Of course I am referring to Omar Mateen…
My Commencement Speech
It’s that time of the year again when universities call on dignitaries and luminaries to give commencement speeches to their students. Most of these speeches will be rambling, pointless and sleep-inducing. Others less so. And a select few — 10 or less I’d suppose — will actually make an imprint on the minds of those…
Say It Plain
I came across a video clip the other day. It was shot inside a Florida Starbucks and showed a woman telling off the Governor there who had come inside the Starbucks with a retinue of aides and guards to, I assume, order a caffeinated drink. She calls him an “asshole” among other things and when…
At Least We’re Not Earth
Here’s a premise for a movie:
The Chinese become the first ones to discover the existence of alien life forms in outer space. Without telling anyone they develop the capability to track down and capture these alien life forms and succeed in bringing one back to Earth for further research. They hope that in doing…
A Breather, And Then Some
Home Again
There are many reasons why people want to emigrate to the United States. One oft cited reason is abundance of economic opportunity. Where one is perhaps stymied in his attempts to set up shop on a street in Bangladesh so that he will be able to make enough to support himself and his family, he…
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Padilla Retroactivity Making Another Trip to the Supreme Court?
Earlier this month the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided the case of United States v. Chan. That case involves a longtime U.S. green card holder and British national who is trying to get her prior convictions for perjury overturned. The argument is that the lawyer who represented the green card holder misled her on…
It’s Such a Good Feeling
Not too long ago I transcribed for this blog a piece George Orwell wrote for Tribune, a British newspaper to which he was a regular contributor. Orwell had his own column in the paper which he called As I Please and the piece at issue was one that Tribune thought best captured Orwell’s character and…