More Mueller, and A Question About Hearsay
On “The 11th Hour with Brian Williams” to discuss the Rick Gates plea: Jack Sharman – MSNBC – The 11th Hour with Brian Williams (Feb....
New Year’s Day: Reflection, Not Resolution
Reflection without discipline can be self-indulgent, especially as the year draws to a close and a new one opens before us. So, let us impose...
Christmas: Cocktails and Crime, Choirs and Cool
A few notes, as Christmas is upon us. First, what to drink? I don’t care for Bloody Marys; they’re too acid. The best Christmas drinks...
Special Counsel Subpoenas, FBI Agent Texts, GoGo Penguin Groove
An unusual point arose here (at the end) regarding an FBI agent’s political text-messages and cross-examination: Jack Sharman – MSNBC – Meet the Press (Dec....
The Special Counsel and Obstruction of Justice
Here, a few thoughts on the Special Counsel, the President and obstruction of justice: Jack Sharman – MSNBC – The 11th Hour with Brian Williams...
Dante’s Guide: Preparing the Grand Jury Witness
Finally, one gets to quote Dante while talking about grand jury witnesses: In the year 1300, at age 35, the narrator of Dante’s Inferno famously...
Thanksgiving Cocktails, Truman Capote, Puritan Poetry
A few notes for your Thanksgiving: a holiday examination, Mumm champagne, an old-fashioned cocktail from Garden & Gun, the French 75 (its history and variants),...
Whitewater and Russian Rapids
On “The 11th Hour with Brian Williams” to discuss the Mueller indictments: Jack Sharman – MSNBC – The 11th Hour with Brian Williams (Oct. 31,...
Title IX: Fair Campus, Foul Weather
With Education Secretary Betsey Devos much in the news over possible changes to the Dear Colleague letter promulgated by the DOE’s Office of Civil Rights,...
Lauren Bacall and The Big Sleep: Film Noir Cool, White Collar Crime, Cocktail Cold
To the extent that it reflected crime, Lauren Bacall’s work was noir, not white-collar; black, not white; guns, not accounting fraud. Yet, there was an...