The American Civil War, fought between 1861 and 1865, was one of the greatest examples in recorded history of military action undertaken by one people to free another from subjugation. Certainly the motives of those on both sides of the conflict were complex, and not altogether either altruistic or depraved, but it is hard to […]
Around the year 2000, I had my first experience posting on-line. I’m sure others had been involved in on-line posting much earlier than that, but being a not-so rapid adopter of technology that was my first foray. My reason for posting at the time was to research certain small cap stocks I was interested in […]
Our Stake President, Nathan Johnson, sent out an email today regarding the unrest stemming from the death of George Floyd. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a Stake is a combination of 8-12 Wards. Wards are the basic organizational unit of the Church and have 200-400 members. Our Stake is the Kirtland […]
When I would read scriptures with my children when they were younger I would often say, “read the words that are there, and don’t read the words that are not there.” I ask the reader in reading this piece to do the same. I am attempting to deal with very contentious subject matter which can […]
One of the roles I play as an attorney is representing indigent defendants in criminal cases. An indigent defendant is one who cannot afford to pay for an attorney. Typically the local public defenders’ office will represent indigent criminal defendants but if for some reason the public defender cannot represent a particular defendant than the […]
The illusion of Black people and white people as distinct races may have been understandable in the Antebellum South where for the most part the two groups of people where fairly distinct visually, the descendants of West Africans and north-western Europeans. But wherever and whenever the view is broader and more inclusive, the mixtures of […]
Trying to explain to people why I joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a hard thing for me. The appeal initially had most to do with the Word of Wisdom, or abstinence from alcohol and tobacco, but it was more than that. I found a great deal of wisdom in the […]
I wanted to share some thoughts on the death of George Floyd. As a defense attorney, I deal with a lot of people who have been arrested. Likewise, I read a lot of police reports and look at a lot of video, of arrests as well as other aspects of criminal cases. I know and […]
Pondering Nietzsche’s Madman, running from place to place yelling “God is dead, and we have killed him!” The Madman exclaims, “What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives.” Soon, though, the Madman falls silent, realizing that the death of God had “not yet […]
I was born in January of 1965. At the time my Dad was the command pilot of a nuclear armed B-52 Bomber stationed at Loring Air Force Base in the northern tip of Maine. The Cuban Missile Crisis had ended a little over two years before. The Gulf of Tomkin Resolution allowing President Johnson broad […]