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Venn and the art of political maintenance
Two wrongs don't make a right, but two problems could make a solution.
Prosecutors seek ignorant jurors with tin ears
Our jury selection process, voir dire, allows attorneys to strike a prospective juror who has expertise in the issue before the court. This has led to some idiotic rulings in the music industry.
Graduation Day
A battalion of graduates from a Southern California high school show the power and promise of immigration in America.
The wisdom of Diogo Joao Baptista Gomes
Every now and then I run into a piece of writing so interesting that I can spend hours contemplating its meaning.
How I became obnoxious
I became obnoxious this week, but it wasn’t my fault. I was in the doctors’ waiting room and something jiggled in my pocket. No, not that.
Licensing
Motors make a difference.
Tiny, greedy swarming ants
We are all living in a horrifying short story written by Italo Calvino in 1954: “The Argentine Ant.” O, yes we are.
Shohei Ohtani for President
He was born in Japan, so Shohei Ohtani cannot be our president. But what the hell, neither today’s Congress, Supreme Court nor 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. give a damn about the Constitution, so why shouldn’t we elect Shohei?
A horrible experiment revealed
Reluctantly, I allowed my friend Ryan, an IT guy, to tell me how Artificial Intelligence could improve my columns. Then I asked The AI Demon to rewrite this column in the style of Shakespeare, then in the style of Franz Kafka.