Gongol.com Archives: November 2018
November 21, 2018
When the President challenges the Chief Justice
As long as everyone remembers that the branches of government are co-equal, the Republic should survive. But we've had better moments as a country than one in which the head of the Supreme Court has to defend the independent judiciary. If nothing else, perhaps, we have the opportunity to be reminded of the central importance of the tripartite Constitutional order.
How Ronald Reagan laughed off his assassination attempt
Not because it wasn't serious (it assuredly was), but because a sense of humor put Reagan in control of the situation
A better way to navigate hospitals
Being in a hospital is usually stressful enough; making one's way wherever they're going shouldn't add needless stress to the experience
News is anything that materially changes our understanding of the status quo
The educators who think their first job is to get a lesson across to students, no exceptions
The incredibly destructive Camp Fire
It's destroyed more structures than the next six most-destructive California wildfires combined
