Just to briefly mention what I've been up to on this Ash Wednesday, we had a meeting this morning with representatives of Providence Hospital and Lexington Medical Center. They had come to jointly announce a major breakthrough -- they've stopped fighting over whether LexMed should be allowed...

Well, I saw something I've never seen before at my Rotary Club, to the best of my memory (and fellow Rotarians, correct me if I'm wrong): Our main speaker got THREE standing ovations -- before he started speaking, in the middle of his remarks, and when he finished. I've seen some war her...

Note Cindi's column today about Sheriff Lott and Michael Phelps. Originally (in a somewhat condensed form), it was going to be an editorial -- that is, an expression of the consensus of the editorial board as a whole. Trouble is, we didn't reach consensus. We were all in agreement that the s...

This previous post got me to thinking that some of you might be interested in traveling down memory lane a bit with regard to Sheriff Leon Lott, since he's recently become nationally famous. As y'all know, I feel a certain kinship for the sheriff (whom we endorsed in the last election). We c...

Looking for something else, I happened to run into this old story from 1991. It's from Leon Lott's Miami Vice days as head of the narcotics squad of the sheriff's department. As many of you will remember, back then Leon had a rep as a bit of a cowboy (in addition to Sonny Crockett, Dirty...

There's a new poll out from Gallup and USA Today which one is headlining as showing there's "no mandate for criminal prosecutions" and the other is headlining as showing that "most want an enquiry" into whether Bush's anti-terror policies broke the law. Those headlines aren't mutually incompatible. ...

I’m thinking about how to make use of the suggestions offered in the comments to my previous post. First I want to elaborate on something I said here and try to give you a little insight into what I’m up to. When I mentioned high standards, I was not talking about how well you use grammar, punct...

April 2008: BBC's Newsnight interviews US Judge Advocate Diane Beaver about the Bush administration's legallese cover-story for war crimes. I truly loathe the notion of torturers and those who ordered torture getting away with it. Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Judiciary Committee...

Graphic via Caribdude at The Agonist. As I wrote over the weekend, progressives who really hoped the Obama administration would roll back the Bush years' secrecy over illegal renditions and torture were waiting with intense interest to see what would happen in a key court case today. Five men were s...

H ey, y'all leave my twin Leon alone. The sheriff's got enough problems without folks giving him a hard time for saying he wants to apply the law equally. (And no, y'all haven't been piling on so much here on the blog, but I keep reading the letters and so forth...) That said, I find...