From 13 October 1775 to today, the U.S. Navy has defended the seas, patrolled hostile waters, and served as the principal hauler of all the other branches—their equipment, their weapons, and their personnel. Its official website tallies 325,673 active duty men and women serving on, above, next to, and under the water. Some of those Navy men, like men anywhere, ...
Whether you are a divorced father, married Papa, or a single Dad, you know frustration. You know bewilderment, desperation, perhaps even a tinge of anger now and then. It comes with the job. How you express it is your choice. Many people turn to their local gym to sweat out their feelings. Some crawl into beds or bottles, but many ...
Having your home vandalized is heartbreaking, threatening, and frightening. It is made all the worse if you suspect your spouse is responsible for the vandalism. How could this happen? If she is living in your marital home during your separation, and the home is to be sold as part of the property settlement agreement, she may think this one last ...
Drug and alcohol abuse have legal consequences that affect wide swaths of society, but society’s attitudes toward chemical dependency are changing. What was once a moral failing may now be considered a medical or mental illness. The law, though, is playing catch up with these attitudes. If your divorce is complicated by substance abuse, you need strong legal help. Hate ...
An old joke of P.G. Wodehouse novels1 is the costly indulgence of sending a telegram. In the stodgy old days of vintage telegram communications, stage stars received opening-night accolades via telegram, hearts broke from pithy little memoranda, and everyone was impressed that the sender spent so much money on something billed by the word. American Telegram nowadays charges $34.95 plus ...
Sometimes we’re not even sure whether we are proudly strutting our Latin or simply flashing back to Mrs. McPamashamspam’s high school geometry class, but the phrase “quod erat demonstrandum” has been floating around in our heads for days now. This is probably because some legal concepts require a sort of orderly proof, a multi-step system, to explain. One example of ...
What color is a zebra? You think that’s a (you can choose: cutesy, smart-ass, or trick) question, but it is not. Grevy’s zebra1, for example, is actually dark with white stripes, and the young foals emerge with brown, not black, stripes. Why do you care about zebras? Because sometimes things that seem confusing actually are remarkably clear. Like the perennial ...
In 2016, the world had 50.442 percent males and 49.558 percent females, according to The World Bank1. That (rather neatly) adds to 100 percent and shows a slight edge (0.884 percent) toward men. You would think marketers would notice that slightly more than half the world is men, and significant number of those men are fathers. Yet, judging by some ...
Lewis Carroll was an inventive writer who gave the world the concept of plunging down a rabbit hole, and in the 21st century this has come to mean following a path to extreme distraction. If you take a moment to plunge down the rabbit hole of “courtroom fights” on YouTube, you can find some mighty angry people there. To be ...