Bill Girdner

The one pursues it, the other decries it — technology, money, success, power, pleasure.

In a town where the most destructive of all weapons was made, a big portion of the townspeople own guns while their kids play softball, go fishing at the gun club, and attend public school.

Kansas Chief Justice Marla Luckert has moved quickly and decisively to bring back prompt access to new court pleadings, a longtime tradition in the courts of America.

The canard that free trade is good for everybody has at last come home to roost. But, in a Jack in the Box epiphany, it most likely no longer matters.

Rulings and judgments in state courts are falling into a black hole. A simple filter would open that work product to public view.

Interrupted at work by a phone call putting me into a town hall, I waited for my congresswoman to come up with an attack line that finds its mark.

The panel upheld a finding by U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss that

Virginia has set up a two-tier system of access to court records, one for officials and lawyers that is remote, and another for plebes that is not.

Underneath the daily sturm und drang in the brief life of the new administration, tectonic plates in an old alliance are shifting. And as the old world reveals its democratic core, the new world is losing it.

“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.” That’s good stuff, strong and dark, from Ecclesiastes.