Showing posts with label testimony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label testimony. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 05, 2026

THE OLYMPICS OF TESTIMONY

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by Elaine Sorrentino He’s given no warmup. Tossed into the arena with hungry litigants, he pulls a timeline of horror from under his fingern...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

IS IT ABOUT THE SURVIVORS OR ABOUT THE TAO?

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by Raymond Nat Turner “Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law”  — Oliver Goldsmith “What does the Tao have to do with anything? Are y...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

EVERYTHING MARJORIE MAY HAVE NEVER SAID

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by Chad Parenteau We swore an oath. Does anyone remember the oath? Free speech is essential, whether or not we recall it. They continue to t...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

A FUGUE

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by Martin H. Levinson is a contrapuntal composition in which a short argument or fight, like the one we had on Wednesday over the ...

JUST THE FACTS

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by g emil reutter The shade is always drawn bland as a meadow hiding from the sun robin pecks at cracks in dirt worms deep in hard...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE MUELLER REPORT

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by Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose Cartoon by Steve Sack Star Tribune Jul 23, 2019 “We chose these words carefully, and the words spea...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

COLORING

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by Laura Lee Washburn This drawing is part of an exhibition in Tucson, AZ of original watercolors and other artworks by kids whose f...
Monday, March 04, 2019

THE FIXER’S TESTIMONIAL

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by Mary K O'Melveny Michael Cohen by Ross Studio I am not a bad man and yet I am not a good man I knew the road’s rules an...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

THE INTERPRETER’S TESTIMONY

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by Rebecca Starks
 “I shall be there when the wave has gone by.” –Marianne Moore How to put it . . . I don’t remember, I doodle, I...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

AMBASSADOR OF GOOD WILL

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by Edmund Conti When meeting with Sergei Kislyak Your memory falls through the crack. There’s so much to discuss With this welcom...
Monday, June 12, 2017

LORDY, I HOPE THERE ARE TAPES

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by Alan Walowitz Image source: Canadian Business You call up the stairs to tell me what we’ll need to make it through the long nig...