Category Archives: The Facts of Life

Trump’s pardons spit in the faces of one particular group of Americans

Posted on December 7, 2025 by Naomi

The ones no one refers to when convictions are announced: the people, i.e., us ordinary and unheralded participants in the American experiment, who sat on the many grand juries indicting the criminals and the many juries convicting them. When Jack … Continue reading →

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Notice: the jailhouse will no longer rock

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Naomi

From Harper’s Weekly Review: [I]n Missouri, a county circuit judge notorious for wearing an Elvis Presley wig on the bench and swearing in witnesses to Presley’s music shall no longer hold judicial office.

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How to lift the ambient mood

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Naomi

From Harper’s Weekly Review: “I’m alive,” said a man who was presumed to be dead, turning up at his own funeral.

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