Gillette-Torvik Blog

Astute Reader(s)™ of this blog undoubtedly noticed that we went over a year without posting anything. One of my regrets about that period i...

For reasons that I prefer not to ponder (cough-age-cough), I am not very well informed about popular culture.  For example, I do not know wh...

So the NCAA 2017 Division One Men's Basketball Tournament began this week. As computer-based workers stop doing their jobs and start wa...

As 2016 comes to an end and the presidency of Donald J. Trump about to begin, a lot of liberals I know are very worried about what the Supre...

So we have been running this series on people who will never be Presiden t.  For the most part, we have been spot on.  But this post will n...

I strongly believe that electing judges is a very bad idea.  See  e.g., here and here .  Over at Slate, Robert J. Smith has an article abou...

M oderately reliable sources on the Internet, i.e. Wikipedia , say that on this date in 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as a Supreme C...

It's usually wrong to brag and it is usually wrong to take pleasure in the suffering of others.  But is it wrong to point out that we ca...

My maternal great-grandfather was Samuel Visnow.  Samuel was born in Quebec in 1847. I do not know exactly how they ended up there  but by 1...

Everyone knows that ignorance of the law is no excuse. A natural corollary of this, one would think, would be a right to know what the law i...