Shakespeare created many memorable phrases like, “to thine own self be true,” or “it follows as the night the day”– so many that I am hard-pressed to avoid the Bard from time to time. Yet there is one expression I couldn’t do without, particularly during the waning mon

The beginning of a new year is a good time to take stock of the human race.  Frankly, I’m surprised we’re still around, having been in one conflict or another for the past 2000 years.   Beyond that, we spend a good deal of time thinking about money and are willing to gut the pl

How in the world did our Supreme Court come to the conclusion that corporations were people? Citizens United  The debate over whether they are or not had been going on for 200 years, though I little knew it.  As late as 1914, in a case before the Michigan Supreme Court, a brewery lo