Dontmeannothin/essays

If you do not recognize the significance of "Don't mean nothin," ask a veteran of the Vietnam War to explain. My apologies to Michel de Montaigne.

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Crisis in the Federal Courts

Another example of the effect of irresponsible, intransigent ideological posturing now substituting for rational governance in Congress. The...

Sunday, July 14, 2013

"Hero" Is An Earned Honor

The death of Mr. Tayvon Martin was a tragedy. As Mr. Zimmerman’s attorney put it, the conviction of Mr. Zimmerman as charged would ha...

Thursday, July 04, 2013

A form of democracy in Egypt

Some thoughts while switching from CNN to MSNBC to al Jazeera to Fox News and back around... In Hong Kong, Portugal, Turkey, Egypt and oth...

Thursday, June 06, 2013

Just Mining Data

Commenting on http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-pro...

Thursday, May 23, 2013

President Obama's Speech, May 23, 2013

THIS IS THE CORRECT ACTION AND LONG OVERDUE. "For the first time, a president stated clearly and unequivocally that the state of ...

Sunday, May 12, 2013

A Burial Virginians Should Respect

"Tamerlan, 26, and his 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar, are believed to have set off two bombs near the finish line at the Boston Mara...

Monday, May 06, 2013

Guns for Grandma?

The NRA portrays and defends private sales of firearms as merely among family and friends. From a public notice on May 3rd by the U.S. ...

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Grappa: Vietnam Veteran, Former CIA Case Officer, Former Federal and State Prosecutor.

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