Category Archives: law

No Red Lights – No Worries

January 9, 2010 – 6:53 pm

California has a budget deficit of billions. The federal government has no intention of bailing out the failing economy of the nation’s largest state, so Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been seeking alternative methods to save and make money. Earlier in the week he proposed cutting the prison population along with privatizing the penal institutions. State […]

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Death to Beermas

June 27, 2009 – 1:24 pm

My friend Miguel had an opening Thursday night at his Orchard Street gallery. Esoteric bread sculptures. I surveyed the works for several minutes and then grabbed a beer. The sky was clear for the first time this month and I stepped outside. New York has been experiencing a very English summer. This evening air was […]

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HOLY MAN FUNDS

June 23, 2008 – 10:58 am

Dear Friends of Holy Man,   We are writing today with many updates and exciting developments about the film and Douglas’ case.   We also writing to ask for your help!   Today is Douglas White’s 87th birthday. It is our hope and prayer that this will be the last birthday he spends in prison […]

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2 Million Baht Lunch Pail Owner no longer MIA

June 15, 2008 – 12:53 pm

When I first traveled to the Orient, my friends asked, “Aren’t you scared of thieves?” “No, because if anyone wants something from me, then all they have to do is wait for me to forget it.” And basically no one ever really stole from me in Thailand. I left a camera at a restaurant. They […]

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Cross Examinations

June 15, 2008 – 11:00 am

These are from a book called Disorder in American Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place. ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active? WITNESS: No, I just lie there. __________________________________________________________

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