Great Depression 2 started last Sunday, July 1, as I predicted in 2017. REVOLUTION. Quite appropriately, I’m writing this screed on Independence Day, July 2, the 242nd anniversary of the 1776 Second Continental Congress adoption of Richard Henry Lee’s treasonous motion. Many copies of the Declaration of Independence were distributed over the next few weeks. Most of the … [Read more...]
The Quintessential Freudian Slip
As an undergraduate psychology major, I took a course in group therapy. It was a terrific class with a brilliant professor, whose strategy for teaching us was mostly spending the semester being the therapist with our class composing the group in therapy. One day it was my turn. That is, the focus of the group’s work was on me. I talked of my family-of-origin and my childhood … [Read more...]
The IG Report
The long-awaited IG report on Hillary Clinton was finally released last week after a year and a half. The report totaled more than five hundred pages and was replete with devastating anti-Trump emails between a pair of FBI lovers. The overwhelming bias against Trump repeatedly showed up but in the conclusion of the report it was said that such bias was not a factor. In that … [Read more...]
Judicial Bias Depends on the Party Involved
Bias, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Earlier this year a three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a decision by Reno federal Judge Robert Clive Jones involving water rights in the Walker River Basin and ordered him removed from the case, saying he was biased against the federal government’s attorneys. “We … [Read more...]
Cat House to State House: Any Publicity Is Good Publicity
Awhile back, I got a call from someone supporting the unsuccessful recall of sullied Storey County Sheriff Gerald Cook Antinoro. (Barbwire 10-31-2014 et seq.) His detractors were researching if there had ever been a sheriff ousted in Nevada history or if theirs would be the first. I gave them a cold shower. Not only was it not the first, but fleshmonger Dennis Hof, a 2018 … [Read more...]
Humor: The Best Medicine
Patients laugh a lot in my office. I do, too. Which is, seen one way, ironic, especially when you consider that no one comes to therapy who isn’t suffering. But, seen another way, humor is an ally for those who suffer. I admit that some of the laughter is a consequence of just me being me. Humor is a vital part of my life, my personality. I enjoy seeing the world with a bit … [Read more...]
History in the Making?
Last week the most important news in many years occurred when President Trump met with the leader of North Korea in Singapore. The object of the meeting as stated by Trump was the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. If that event comes to pass, it could be the most significant achievement of Trump’s presidency. By taking the bull by the horns, Trump has done what no … [Read more...]
Can a Nevada Law Pass Constitutional Muster?
Our federal and state constitutions are meant to lay the ground rules for what our governments can and cannot do, spelling out the rights of the individual to be free from the dictates for well-meaning but overweening lawmakers. A recent obscure and little-noted Supreme Court case out of Minnesota tore the heart out of one of those rights by flippantly dismissing the … [Read more...]