I wanted to take a few days to let the information settle and see how the Convention started before commenting on the DNC’s leaked e-mails. I have a few thoughts: It won’t impact the election. While people are rightly outraged and Bernie supporters are swearing up and down they won’t vote for Hillary — this won’t make a dent in… Read more »
Despite Media, A Good Week for Trump Let’s just do this the way I do book reviews: Good, Bad, Ugly. The Good Trump’s Family — young, healthy, energetic, well-spoken. His kids gave great speeches without any major (or really, minor) glitches or trip-ups. Despite the media focus on Melania Trump’s “plagiarism”, the speech itself was good and well received —… Read more »
No If you think that Donald Trump’s wife intentionally cribbed from Michelle Obama, you’re either a moron or an annoying moron. For one, what sort of idiot would she have to be in order to plagiaeiize the First Lady in a speech set to face the scrutiny anything she does will? Anything anyone named Trump does gets a ton of… Read more »
Something different I’ve been a little quieter than planned. In addition to catching up on a backlog of things to do, I’ve been doing some editing on the next Cigars and Legs book. It’s going to be a collection of shorts and a novella, a little more to it than the White Dames. After I put that collection out, I’m… Read more »
Many times I’ve written that intent is important for many crimes, and it should be — the concept of mens rea, “guilty mind”, is common in western laws. While not encoded as a constitutional protection it should well be: breaking a law a reasonable person wouldn’t think is a law, on accident and resulting in no harm… why waste time… Read more »