Appeals aren’t set up to save the innocent. Fresh from law school, I served as a Deputy Attorney General in Indiana working in criminal appeals. I defended the work of prosecutors to keep people in prison, and — on one occasion involving a man who molested and strangled a ten-year-old…

President Trump’s devotees smash “lamestream” media for scouring Trump’s every word and deed for chum to chuck into the “libtard shark-infested social media waters.” MAGA Nation even claims some critics are so persistent they suffer from pathology — Trump Derangement Syndrome — a hatred so deep, it impairs judgment. I…

Hey there, fellow Caucasians! I know some of you are now footsoldiers in a growing Apoplectic Posse. The core group of you (mostly Lynyrd Skynyrd fans) enlisted as municipalities and/or protestors ripped Johnny Reb loser-traitors out of America’s public squares. But then, as Union presidents starting taking it in the…

What a NASCAR Noose Controversy Can Teach About Some White People's Obliviousness As long as I can remember, I’ve been white. And during this stretch, I’ve regularly had fellow caucazoids regurgitate ludicrous-level obliviousness around how we perceive, process, and, ultimately, pontificate on the souls of Black folk. To provide an…

Did the Selective Historian We Neither Need Nor Deserve Just Sell Me on Reparations for Black America? Conservative ideologue and ideal casting choice for Carlton Banks-as-a-grandfather in any Fresh Prince revamp, Thomas Sowell, argued in 2016 that it’s absurd to hold people responsible for things that happened before their “born on” date gets stamped. I started investigating this premise when a fanboy website recently retweeted his words…

The first time I saw Colin Kaepernick take a knee during the national anthem, I was blasé. I am old enough to remember Americans raging about the propriety of flag burning before the Supreme Court constitutionally sanctioned the practice, so a protest to reduce police brutality without actually destroying a…

To the Back of the Line! Costco and Sam’s Club members know well the worst part of every shopping outing — the interminable queue to actually leave the damn store. One disgruntled employee bottlenecks the exit to catch a peek at your receipt and scan one of your items. This seems like obvious theft deterrence…

Trump Predicts Doom During his most controversial rant in 2017 — “very fine people on both sides” — Donald Trump asked this series of questions while railing against the removal of Confederate monuments: “Was George Washington a slave owner? … Are we going to take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas…

Justice Breyer Ices and Creams Notion that States Can Profit from Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day Back in December, the Supremes got oral argument in a fascinating clash between the U.S. Congress and our fitty[i] states in a case paralleling only Freddie v. Jason in terms of public sympathy for the respective parties. In Allen v. Cooper, the nine companions of the Fellowship of the Gavel…