My wife Lita and I are leaving in a few minutes for the airport. We going to Italy and aren’t back until the first week in June so I will not be posting on this blog during that time. Gerry Spence is still at it in Detroit defending a lawyer with the assistance of a very fine criminal defense lawyer from Idaho who worked with Gerry in the Randy Weaver case. While all lawyers are an attorney’s worst nightmare for…
My friend Eric Oliver is a communications specialist and trial consultant (www.Eric-oliver.com) at MetaSystems in Michigan. His publication News from the Mental Edge is always informative. His last issue (Winter 2008) reprints an article from the Washington Post "Difficulty in debunking myths rooted in the way the mind works." You may have read about the strange fact that no matter how often the truth that Iraq was not involved in the Trade Center disaster is repeated a majority of people…
When I graduated from Anacortes high school in 1953 I thought I was a great athlete since I had been given a basketball and football scholarship at the University of Washington. At six feet two inches I had played center and was proud of scoring ten or so points in a game. Fifteen points was a big night. Total scores of our games were in the forties. As you might guess, today I wouldn’t even be allowed to sit on…