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There is nothing original about Donald Trump, least of all his rhetoric of hate. Nor is there anything original about his followers who feed on it. Invective can be addictive. Its narcotic appeal has antecedents in both history and literature. Hitler used it in his speeches. They began quietly, then slowly built to a shouting…

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The Twitter user (I refuse to say “X user”) known to the world as “BlackKnight10k” delineated the six salient political issues of the week. They are, in summary, that the GOP’s star impeachment witness is in pretrial detention, that Ken Chesebro says the fake electors were part of a coup, that Trump can’t afford his…

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I’m something of a stickler (some might say a curmudgeon) for good service. It’s a pet peeve of mine that there is so much bad service out there. Good service isn’t hard. It requires empathy, common sense, dedication and competence. It is the ultimate expression in business of “Do unto others as you would have…

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A couple of years ago I brought to your attention the true story of Frank Abagnale Jr. For those of you who missed it, brothers and sisters, I think that story bears repeating, especially in these turbulent times of information overload and, ahem, “alternative truth.” If Frank Abagnale Jr doesn’t ring an immediate bell, perhaps…

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The bad news: imagine you’re a four times-indicted criminal defendant with millions of dollars in mounting legal fees. You’ve just been handed, in rapid succession, two crushing civil defamation judgments, one for 5 million dollars and the other for a blood-curdling 83.3 million dollars, both for raping and then defaming a woman. Meanwhile a judge…

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