Casey Anthony–guilty or not guilty? The jury says not, but millions of avid followers of her trial disagree. Therein lies a hint of the limitations of the criminal justice system. I have no opinion one way or another. I chose not to pay close attention to media coverage, knowing full well the limitations of the [...]
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Kiplinger’s says, in it’s August 2011 issue, that J&J is one of 6 cash-rich stocks to buy now. They note that J&J shares “have mostly lagged the stock market since the March 2009 bottom.” And also point out that “One of J&J’s problems has been quality-control issues at its McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit that resulted in [...]
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What bothers me the most about the memos that this bozo (who actually is a law professor at Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley; ugh, boy would I have some serious dialogue in his class) wrote saying essentially that whatever the president decides is OK during a “time of war” is legally OK. Rape, murder, Vlad the [...]
So now we are having 1st graders (and perhaps even pre-kindergartners) charged with sexual harassment in school–and even having police called. In a Washington Post article today, Post staff writer Brigid Schulte describes incidents where children as young as four are accused of sexual harassment.
Whoa, now there’s a term you don’t see much anymore. It refers to a manufacturer or business concentrating production of parts, supplies, etc., into wholly owned subsidiaries rather than non-owned suppliers. Not to bite the hand that might someday feed me, but Amazon (like many other corporations) is jumping now while the laissez faire antitrust [...]
Contemplating a divorce? Too bad; it happens, even if you have tried to make the marriage work. But a word of caution based on my career in consumer protection and legal training: If you own property together, make sure the divorce decree properly handles the division of real estate.
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