Death and a Donut. Every Memorial Day, our neighborhood association holds a parade. The weather, it seems, is always perfect, a high blue sky with a warm sun and a fresh breeze. For eight years, my daughters and I have walked the couple blocks to the same spot, sitting on the curb under a sugar
Ralph Nader encourages us to break through the power, and he believes we can do it. For more than fifty years, Ralph Nader has been a man on a mission. It was fifty years ago that the consumer advocate and erstwhile presidential candidate published his groundbreaking book, Unsafe at Any Speed. This http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/05/20/ralph-naders-democracy-crusadeweek, Nader celebrated
Left Is Right: Double-Thinking About Donald Trump. “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them…” –George Orwell, 1984 Official American politics, the spectrum that runs from “ultra-liberal”
Saturday, May 14 was a banner day (literally) for one firm, Justinian & Associates, as the local area law firm opened a new office in Austin, Texas. Despite a rainy appearance by Mother Nature, the grand opening event was well-attended and fun for all. It also marked a special day in the history of the Texas-based firm: the addition of a third location to better serve its clients.
While no one can agree on Millennial birth dates, experts say the range is anywhere from 1980 (or the early 80s) through the mid-90s or the year 2000. In any case, this safety-conscious generation has strong views on everything from motor vehicle and other product liability issues to methods of trial presentation. In short, Millennial jurors may change the face of product liability trials.
Soon, very soon, in a reality none of us ever expected could happen, Bayer considers buying Monsanto and the Evil Empire begins with a $40B bid. German company, Bayer AG, producer of such incredible products as Zyklon B and Essure, the “permanent” birth control device responsible for ruining tens of thousands of women’s lives, is talking to Monsanto Company, the producer of Agent Orange, Dioxin, PCBs and most recently, GMO “frankenfood” seeds about purchasing the company.
Now there is an agency rule that takes a bite out of mandatory arbitration clauses. And high time. Admit it. Sometimes, late at night, it’s just you and your laptop, and you get to feeling a little curious. Or maybe just bored. Either way, who hasn’t had the experience at least once of taking a
Arguments were heard in Detroit’s federal District Court in a lawsuit claiming that the State of Michigan and the City of Flint are moving too slowly to resolve Flint’s water crisis. Residents in the city are still using bottled water for drinking, cooking and bathing. Federal officials claim the water is safe to drink if
In a week or two the United States will take its official sobriety-and-stiletto style and a planeload of reporters to Hiroshima. It will be the first time a sitting president has visited that city rebuilt from the radioactive rubble that another president created. The only appropriate act for Barack Obama when he touches down would
On Tuesday, the threat of war with China heightened when the United States made its third incursion into Chinese-claimed waters in eight months, sending the guided-missile destroyer USS William P. Lawrence sailing within the 12-nautical-mile territorial zone surrounding Chinese-held Fiery Cross Reef in the South China Sea under the pretext of defending the principle of