Monthly Archives: September 2018

A SAD READ

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I recently read “I Am, I Am, I Am” by Maggie O’Farrell.  What caught my eye was the subtitle, “Seventeen Brushes With Death.”  It’s...

THE VIEW FROM THE DOORWAY: BOTH SIDES, PART II

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In the last two entries in this blog, we discussed the controversial case of a female cop off-duty who believed she had come home,...

THE VIEW FROM THE DOORWAY: BOTH SIDES, PART I

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The double-edged tragedy in Dallas, discussed here in my last post has triggered a common phenomenon seen nationwide, and even here in commentary: the natural...

LEARNING FROM A TRAGEDY IN DALLAS

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Another controversial police shooting is in the news, this one particularly heart-breaking. A synopsis of events and some legal analysis is found here. This incident...

A BLAST FROM THE PAST, AS IT WERE

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A reader in Georgia was cleaning out his old gun magazines, and was kind enough to send me a photocopy of an article titled...