Dear Tamir…

Dear Tamir, Today is my nephew’s birthday. He’s a millennium baby in the truest sense: born 01/01/00. Isn’t that neat? That makes him a tad older than you would have been, but when I see your picture I think of him…

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A Thing of Beauty

After much scheduling and postponing and teetering and yessing and noing and maybeing, by some stroke of luck I finally managed to herd a chunk of my closest friends and family members together for a private handgun carry permit class. That unlikely…

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Murder One and Dunn

I’m good with this. I’m good — both as a lawyer who fears the “slippery slope” and as an aunt whose nine nephews will likely at some point or another play loud music and be obnoxious teenagers. I gueessss I can maaaaybe somewhat understand the original jury’s…

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Who’s at Fault?

Since for the time being I find myself yet again stricken with verbal paralysis, I am reduced to stealing other folks’ words about the Michael Brown case.  Here’s one interesting bit of context from a fairly credible perspective, IMHO.

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