The Lucky One
As the sun climbs for the third morning out of Balboa Park and warms the facade of our towering hotel, the retreating shadow reveals the face of a tiny 7-11 tucked unobtrusively away in a nearby alley....
View ArticleKansas Republicans to Kill Anti-gay Bill
Emily Bazelon wrote for Slate today that Republicans in the Kansas State Senate thought better of the anti-gay bill passed last week by the Kansas House. Senate President Susan Wagle is quoted in a UPI...
View ArticleMy Daughter Sleeps in Jail Tonight: How Mental Health Treatment Fails...
My daughter sleeps in jail tonight, not because she is a criminal, but because the voices told her to do something that was. Instinctively, I stop at her bedroom door and look in at the stuffed animals...
View ArticleAnd a fat, old, white guy shall lead them
By now most of us know that Dale Hansen is Dallas sportscaster whose pro-Michael Sam rant against the NFL went viral. What you may not have known is Hansen's pedigree:Hansen has won many awards in his...
View ArticleReich: Raising Minimum Wage Creates Jobs
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich reminds us today of one of those pesky facts that so often get in the way of the conservative polemic against raising the minimum wage, namely, that it creates more...
View ArticleDark is the New Green: Lucrative Lobbying from the Shadows
Former Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Connecticut) swore when he retired in 2011 that he would never work as a lobbyist to influence the trove of colleagues he had amassed over a 36-year congressional...
View ArticleOhio: Ballot Measure Divides Gay Marriage Supporters
Supporters of a ballot initiative in Ohio are no strangers to opposition in their quest to make the Buckeye State the nation's first to overturn its own constitutional ban on same sex marriage. But...
View ArticleUN: "Unspeakable Atrocities" in North Korea
There really aren't words to describe it. Torture, starvation, forced abortion, rape, execution: accurate all, but painfully inadequate to describe the horrors documented for the very first time in a...
View ArticleSCOTUS Weakens Search Warrant Requirement for Homes
In a 6-3 decision yesterday, the United States Supreme Court gave police a green light to search residences without a warrant so long as they first arrest any occupant who objects to the search (and...
View ArticleHangover? Try a Garbage Plate
I'm sure it tastes much better than it sounds. Rochester, New York is famous for many things, and one of them is the garbage plate. There's no actual garbage on...
View ArticlePolite Homophobia is Still Bigotry
There is a lively back and forth between Slate's Mark David Stern and The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf (all responding, more or less, to Ross Douthat's New York Times op-ed) on the gay...
View ArticleMy Daughter Sleeps in Jail Tonight: How Mental Health Treatment Fails...
My daughter sleeps in jail tonight, not because she is a criminal, but because the voices told her to do something that was. Instinctively, I stop at her bedroom door and look in at the stuffed animals...
View ArticleParty with Best-selling Authors in Pasadena Thursday
Best-selling publisher White Whisker Books is throwing a party in Pasadena on Thursday, and all of the Los Angeles Kossacks are invited. The party is to celebrate the launch of TWO new books, and the...
View ArticleNY Tort Reform That Just Won't Die
High-elevation workers such as this one at Manhattan's St. Vincent Hospital are protected by a one-of-a-kind law that is currently threatened by industry efforts in Albany. Of course, few Americans...
View ArticleCalifornia Court Limits Nursing Home Verdicts
A California Court of Appeal was in the news recently for a case it decided last year which drastically reduced the recovery of damages against abusive nursing homes. Decided by a panel of three...
View ArticleCops Need To Accommodate Psychiatric Disabilities
Professor David Perry In the wake of the killing of Kajieme Powell just a few miles from Ferguson, Missouri and of another teen in Kansas on Saturday, Professor David Perry argues for a new paradigm in...
View ArticleKosAbility: Lunch with Two People who Suffer from Schizophrenia
My daughter with Professor Elyn Saks Some of you will remember my therapeutic (if not cathartic) diaries about my daughter Trina's mental illness (here and here). Stay tuned for upcoming diaries about...
View ArticleUnder Representation of Minorities at NYC’s Elite Schools Reflects Flawed...
Brooklyn Tech, one of eight NYC specialty schools Last week a group of eight prestigious New York City high schools re-affirmed that they would use only a standardized test to determine admission....
View ArticleThe New Age of Self-Representation
You may not need a lawyer any more It has long been said that one who represents himself has a fool for a client, but a host of new assisted self-representation options may make that adage obsolete....
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