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Robert Kahn
Deputy editor emeritus, Courthouse News
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The Decline and Fall of what, exactly?
Lately I’ve been reading a lot about early Christian martyrs and the late Roman Empire. No, really.
Moral insanity
Let us now bow our heads, for whatever reason — piety, or fear of flying objects — and ask ourselves, and each other: How did our country succumb so quickly to moral insanity?
$40 a pound for steak is cheap
Gripe about the price of beef today all you want, but one of the world’s leading flavor chemists told me what the most expensive steak in the history of the world tasted like.
Prosecutors seek ignorant jurors with tin ears
Our jury selection process, voir dire, allows attorneys to strike a prospective juror who has expertise in the issue before the court. This has led to some idiotic rulings in the music industry.
How I became obnoxious
I became obnoxious this week, but it wasn’t my fault. I was in the doctors’ waiting room and something jiggled in my pocket. No, not that.
Tiny, greedy swarming ants
We are all living in a horrifying short story written by Italo Calvino in 1954: “The Argentine Ant.” O, yes we are.
Shohei Ohtani for President
He was born in Japan, so Shohei Ohtani cannot be our president. But what the hell, neither today’s Congress, Supreme Court nor 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. give a damn about the Constitution, so why shouldn’t we elect Shohei?
A horrible experiment revealed
Reluctantly, I allowed my friend Ryan, an IT guy, to tell me how Artificial Intelligence could improve my columns. Then I asked The AI Demon to rewrite this column in the style of Shakespeare, then in the style of Franz Kafka.