Armand Beede 

@armando38
Attorney. Retired, NAVY Office of the General Counsel. My opinions are my own and do not represent the DoD or Navy. Also, my opinions certainly do not represent the opinions of my beautiful wife, Nancy, nor of my daughters or their house cats.
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Joyful, Mighty Counter-Force

Jay Kuo: I agree that the Honorable Judge Tanya Chutkan shapes up to be a tactical loss but a significant potential for a major strategic victory.

This seems to say a lot about Judge Chutkan's learnedness in the law.

Judge Chutkan has give Pam Bondi's Justice Department fair warning of the factors that will sway her (Judge Chutkan's) judgm…

Some Breaking News

Marc Friedman: You say it so very well, this post needs to be earmarked to be read again and again.

You state values that are core to our civilization and to progress.

Liberal Arts In The Era Of Algorithms: why classical education still matters

Crystal-Lee, Gloria Horton-Young -- She who stirs the storm! What poetic prose!

"The rain paints everything in liquid light – the gleaming spires, the neon signs, the endless stream of traffic flowing like a river of consciousness through the city's arteries."

Sunday Rain with Six Queens

Professor Heather Cox Richardson: Musk/Vance/Tramp represent a total reversal of 80 years of anti-Nazi, anti-Fascist, anti-Communist U.S. Policy and Foreign Policy:

"Vance and MAGA Christian nationalists reject the principles of secular democracy and instead align with leaders like Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán. They claim that th…

February 16, 2025
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My grandfather's letter / La lettre de mon grand-père

Ramya Vivekanandan: You have a well-reasoned, effective plan that strengthens the person and prepares her to find persons who share her core values, and jointly to fight the beast.

"As you might have noticed, I’m one of those who writes - and firmly believes - in the notion that joy, delight, rest, sustenance, pleasure and softness are vi…

Is joy in fact an act of resistance?