City of Motherless Children

“It was like fractured pieces trying to converge — their experience today, my history — being in this place where I had been as a child,” Ina said. I had the good fortune of growing up in South Florida in the seventies, a prehistoric era of AOR radio before the internet – when video games […]

The Secret Garden: Espy and Executive Privilege

Privileges should be narrowly construed; exceptions to the demand for every man’s evidence are not lightly created nor expansively construed, for they are in derogation of the search for truth. Espy a/k/a In Re Sealed Case, 121 F. 3d 729 (USCA DC 1997) In 1994, allegations of corruption swirled around the Secretary of the US Department of […]

When That Rough God Goes Riding

There’ll be no more heroes They’ll be reduced to zero When that rough god goes riding Riding on in Van Morrison I got an email the other day that started with the greeting “Motherfucker!”. It wasn’t meant to be a friendly slap on the back – it was more of a threat. And it came […]