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Two things were recently pointed out to me, both of which were quite accurate, completely inarguable in every way.First, I had somehow let two - plus weeks pass w/o an update on here (again), and second, I had failed to give proper deference to the biggest news to hit...

Many of you that know me in any sort of professional capacity know that something I am extremely passionate about is the growing research surrounding concussions/CTE as attributed to contact sports. Unfortunately my own playing career (20 years, including four in...

While I know it has only been a couple of months since the release of Cover Fire, my affinity for Hawk Tate was too strong not already have the third in the series drafted, this one a small departure from the format of the first two, but still very much in line w/...

Last week in the Superbowl, one of the key veterans that had helped turn Carolina's defense into the second coming of the Steel Curtain this year - Jared Allen - played his last game. At the time nobody knew about it, that afternoon just another in what had...

Anybody that has used the internet for more than an hour in the past year has no doubt by now encountered something like the picture above. We’ve all seen the things that promise love, riches, new cars, fancy houses, eternal salvation, successful children w/ mutant...

Once again I am forced to open w/ an apology, as the start of the legislative session here in Hawaii and furiously finishing up a pair of manuscripts before we get too deep into the lawmaking process, has severely limited my spare time for much else lately. (As can be...

One of the many, many qualities that I often love, and occasionally abhor, about my closest friends is their ability to call me out on things. No matter the circumstances, they are able to (and even seem to relish) point out my shortcomings, often accompanying it w/ a...

Dating back to law school, some of my friends and I have exchanged random links about the inane, ludicrous, and even sometimes outrageous things that people will file a lawsuit over. One of my favorites to this day remains the woman that tried to sue General Mills b/c...

The sound of the thick Velcro straps wrenching themselves free filled Reed’s ears as he jerked them across his chest. Three times in order he pulled them away before letting the Kevlar vest fall to the ground. There it lay, loosely spooled around his feet, the world...

Something I have always been fascinated by are people that do what might not be perceived as the accepted norm by society, but in their own minds, and for their own purposes, they make perfect sense. (See Chaz Doyle in Going Viral or Kris Hopkins in...

For anybody that has been reading this w/ even semi-regularity the last couple of years, or who happens to know me at all on a day-to-day basis, can attest, I am an unabashed lover of all things Halloween. The way some folks get at Christmas time, or on their...

It is a well documented fact that fall is far and away my favorite time of the year. Halloween easily outstrips all others as the preeminent holiday on my annual calendar, fall foliage precipitates at least one autumn trip off the island each year, and the start of...