Sitting here at my computer, I keep wondering where this year went.
It was a year of major changes in my life: retirement and a new house foremost among them. Not to mention several major cases that seemed to drag on forever. But despite the press of events, the year just seemed to vanish into thin air.
When you're as young as my granddaughter, when a week is a sizable chunk of your own personal universe, time seems to move at the pace of a glacier. But as you get older, and one day blends into the next, the days all rush by in a blur, and the end of each year leaves you wondering...where did it go?
JEFFREY CAMINSKY, a veteran public prosecutor in Detroit, Michigan, specializes in the appellate practice of criminal law and writes on a wide range of topics. His books include the science fiction adventure novel The Star Dancers, the exciting second volume in the Guardians of Peace-tm series, The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, and the acclaimed Referee’s Survival Guide, a book on soccer officiating. All are published by New Alexandria Press, and are available on Amazon, as well as directly from the publisher.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Barney Fife is Alive and Well, and Working for the TSA
Perhaps it's just me.
Oddly enough, I'm not not at all surprised that the same Travel Gestapo --- until now primarily known for keeping 3-month old infants off planes because they have the same name as a terrorist, and making everyone take off their shoes when the pass through security --- somehow mananged to let Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab pass onto a plane bound for Detroit...and almost blow it up.
Determined to be politically correct, the TSA won't profile passengers, to pay attention to those who may actually pose a threat. Instead they waste everyone's time, including their own, pretending to make everyone safe, rather than taking the steps necessary to ensure it.
Fortunately, this Mad Bomber Wannabe was too inept to cause the damage he intended. For that we have to thank the passengers and crew of the Flight he was on for rising up and stopping him themselves.
I think we could all do with a deep breath, and a bit more common sense.
JEFFREY CAMINSKY, a veteran public prosecutor in Detroit, Michigan, specializes in the appellate practice of criminal law and writes on a wide range of topics. His books include the science fiction adventure novel The Star Dancers, the exciting second volume in the Guardians of Peace-tm series, The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, and the acclaimed Referee’s Survival Guide, a book on soccer officiating. All are published by New Alexandria Press, and are available on Amazon, as well as directly from the publisher.
Oddly enough, I'm not not at all surprised that the same Travel Gestapo --- until now primarily known for keeping 3-month old infants off planes because they have the same name as a terrorist, and making everyone take off their shoes when the pass through security --- somehow mananged to let Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab pass onto a plane bound for Detroit...and almost blow it up.
Determined to be politically correct, the TSA won't profile passengers, to pay attention to those who may actually pose a threat. Instead they waste everyone's time, including their own, pretending to make everyone safe, rather than taking the steps necessary to ensure it.
Fortunately, this Mad Bomber Wannabe was too inept to cause the damage he intended. For that we have to thank the passengers and crew of the Flight he was on for rising up and stopping him themselves.
I think we could all do with a deep breath, and a bit more common sense.
JEFFREY CAMINSKY, a veteran public prosecutor in Detroit, Michigan, specializes in the appellate practice of criminal law and writes on a wide range of topics. His books include the science fiction adventure novel The Star Dancers, the exciting second volume in the Guardians of Peace-tm series, The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, and the acclaimed Referee’s Survival Guide, a book on soccer officiating. All are published by New Alexandria Press, and are available on Amazon, as well as directly from the publisher.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Global Warming Activists Battle an Inconvenient Blizzard
Coming on the heels of Al "I Invented the Internet...and Global Warming, too Come to Think of It" Gore's two surprise announcements in recent days --- first, that it's several million degrees only a few miles under the earth's surface, which shocked geologists everywhere; and second, that a climate expert is predicting... that there will be no more arctic ice in five years, which came as a complete shock to the scientist Gore cited --- there appears to be an inconvenient blizzard blanketing Denmark.
JEFFREY CAMINSKY, a veteran public prosecutor in Detroit, Michigan, specializes in the appellate practice of criminal law and writes on a wide range of topics. His books include the science fiction adventure novel The Star Dancers, the exciting second volume in the Guardians of Peace-tm series, The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, and the acclaimed Referee’s Survival Guide, a book on soccer officiating. All are published by New Alexandria Press, and are available on Amazon, as well as directly from the publisher.
JEFFREY CAMINSKY, a veteran public prosecutor in Detroit, Michigan, specializes in the appellate practice of criminal law and writes on a wide range of topics. His books include the science fiction adventure novel The Star Dancers, the exciting second volume in the Guardians of Peace-tm series, The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, and the acclaimed Referee’s Survival Guide, a book on soccer officiating. All are published by New Alexandria Press, and are available on Amazon, as well as directly from the publisher.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Musical Disappointments
I missed our first concert over the weekend: my voice was gone, and I seem to have been developing a touch of bronchitis.
I went to the doctor yesterday, and am currently on meds. Already, I feel like I've turned a corner...though I'm not sure it isn't due to the "placebo effect."
Looking back, I think this is only the third or fourth concert I've missed in my entire 50+ years of singing...and only the second missed due to illness. I didn't get a chance to sing my solo...but all in all, I guess I should consider myself lucky to have such a good batting average.
JEFFREY CAMINSKY, a veteran public prosecutor in Detroit, Michigan, specializes in the appellate practice of criminal law and writes on a wide range of topics. His books include the science fiction adventure novel The Star Dancers, the exciting second volume in the Guardians of Peace-tm series, The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, and the acclaimed Referee’s Survival Guide, a book on soccer officiating. All are published by New Alexandria Press, and are available on Amazon, as well as directly from the publisher.
I went to the doctor yesterday, and am currently on meds. Already, I feel like I've turned a corner...though I'm not sure it isn't due to the "placebo effect."
Looking back, I think this is only the third or fourth concert I've missed in my entire 50+ years of singing...and only the second missed due to illness. I didn't get a chance to sing my solo...but all in all, I guess I should consider myself lucky to have such a good batting average.
JEFFREY CAMINSKY, a veteran public prosecutor in Detroit, Michigan, specializes in the appellate practice of criminal law and writes on a wide range of topics. His books include the science fiction adventure novel The Star Dancers, the exciting second volume in the Guardians of Peace-tm series, The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, and the acclaimed Referee’s Survival Guide, a book on soccer officiating. All are published by New Alexandria Press, and are available on Amazon, as well as directly from the publisher.
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