July 27, 2022
As I have mused in many earlier posts, offensiveness is not easily defined and what makes a word or phrase offensive to some, or all, […]
June 14, 2022
I thought I’d wait until you’ve forgotten Ilya Shapiro for the second time. We last contemplated his plight back in mid-February, when […]
December 31, 2021
It’s that time of year when earnest greetings arrive on every puff of air and cloud extending heartfelt wishes of good cheer and universal joy […]
November 17, 2020
What would you do if you discovered that one of your good friends has been physically abusing his wife for as long as you’d known […]
August 8, 2020
Whether or not the spring and summer of 2020 will be seen in hindsight as a Great Tipping Point, it is already clear that we […]
May 13, 2020
At least four times a week for the past several months I’ve had phone calls from Robogal.
“Hello, it’s Linda,” she begins, in her unvarying, always […]
January 8, 2020
Let’s get serious. For four years I’ve been commenting on a range of behaviors, most of them verbal outbursts, that everyone seems to agree were […]
June 24, 2019
Several hours ago as I write, the Supreme Court knocked out the Scandalous Clause in the Lanham Act, the federal trademark statute, […]
January 17, 2019
It seems I overstepped nineteen months ago in claiming that in a unanimous ruling involving disparaging trademarks, “the Supreme Court, presumably once and for all, has […]
