Sunday Morning Coming Down

If there are ethics rules for lower level Federal Judges regarding gifts of free travel and other free stuff like vacations, why don't they also apply to Supreme Court Justices as well.  This is a really simple problem to solve.  I would give the "fish eye" to a Supreme Court Justice who asserted that it didn't apply to the Supreme Court. 

On June 8th the former President of the United States of America was indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami. This has never happened before.  Nixon was pardoned by Ford.  At the time it was politically risky but it let the country move forward.  It did leave unanswered what we should do with a president who may have broken the law and it seems to be using his former status as a defense against prosecution. I've served on federal grand juries twice and it is a sobering experience.  We heard cases about fights on airplanes and we heard more than a few serious drug cases that were common in Miami at the time. The current situation is without precedent.   The indictment of a former president means that there are sufficient legal grounds to believe that he has broken the law.  How this will be resolved is to be determined at a later date. Regular people face consequences for getting caught breaking the law all the time.  Why should a past president ...

The movie "Easy Rider" was released in 1969.  I graduated from high school in 1969.  The musical "Hair" hit Broadway in 1967 and "Woodstock" happened in 1969.  The "counter culture" was hooked on sex, drugs, and rock and roll according to a LIFE Magazine article in 1969 as well. It's been over 50 years ago and life changed for a lot of us.   The 1950's really didn't dwell on diversity, equity, or inclusion very much in the suburban Chicago Area. The opposite concern about "block busting" in the closer in neighborhoods was a bigger issue.  Neighborhoods and most residents worried about them changing. Times have changed.  A person might have been excused back then for behavior that certainly wasn't "woke" and more likely open bigotry in the 1950's. Stodgy, backwards, and being afraid of change isn't a formula for what is needed in this world.  Some cultural wars and the way they are being fought are the d...