A number of years ago a client asked me whom he should vote for. It was a presidential election and I assumed he was asking about either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. I was wrong. He had absolutely no intention of voting for Hillary Clinton… his choice for the presidency had been long ago decided. ...
Dim sunlight cut through the wooden blinds and struck the bar like muted blades. The cycling wicker fans overhead were a mild nuisance, as were the disturbed fake palm fronds that reached towards the 20-foot-high ceiling. As I focused on the differences in lightness and darkness on the damp bar, I found myself becoming distracted...
When I was in college, I had the distinct pleasure of taking Western Civilization I and II with Dr. David Harnett. I idolized the man. It was not just his expansive knowledge of Western History, but his style… and style he had in spades. His suits were perfect, his cufflinks gleamed, and each time he walked into the...
Rights and Responsibilities “Mr. Lieberman, would you be willing to handle a lawsuit?” “Why don’t you tell me the facts.” “I want to challenge the law.” “Always encouraged to hear that… what law?” “The law requiring me to get a CCW to carry a gun.” “Ahhh… you think we should be Constitutional Carry?” “I do… and even if they mandate a CCW,...
Mighty questions blow with the predictability of standards in a breeze. We look at the soft ripples of the fabric and attempt to extrapolate meaning and, in turn, create a framework for predictability. This is, in the end, so much folly. Predictability (outside of commercial ventures) is often a vanity play. “Behold the veracity of my prognostications,...
I could feel the blazing fire from the fireplace warming me. Napoleon faced backwards on his horse as he pointed in the direction of the Alps compelling his men to follow him. The gilded gold frame that surrounded him seemed somewhat cleaner, sharper. The oil painting, itself, I had seen hundreds of times seemed richer...
My heart lies heavy. As most of you know, I am Jewish. I am not entirely sure what that means, frankly. Carolyn, my older daughter, says we are Jew “ish”… I heard the term “flexidox” recently. I am not sure if it is a religion, a culture or, perhaps, a blending of the two. I don’t...
I had been listening to Andrew Huberman, a neuroscientist from Stanford, talk about how music creates a dopamine response in the human brain that helps facilitate physical movement. It was interesting, but as I listened to the muffled sounds of Latin jazz digitally altered to evoke an old-time AM radio sound, I doubted his theory. ...
Lincoln stared past me. His etched visage looking out towards somewhere in empty space contemplating some great cone disconnected from what the artist had posted as a quote below him. “A house divided cannot stand.” It’s written in script to give it an old timey solemnity. When quoting the bard, even if it is Lincoln quoting Shakespeare,...
The irony does not escape me. I am at 35,000 feet, wedged between two people on my way to Milwaukee via a stop-over in Chicago. The flight departed at 6:45 this morning. I tried to sleep through take-off, but that was, as expected, an exercise in futility. I am unarmed. Well… that is probably a misnomer. I have a...
