Every citizen charged with a crime is entitled to a jury of his/her peers to determine guilt. Innocence is presumed. Every military member charged with a crime is entitled to a jury, only not of his peers. Certain other rules peculiar…
Author: vassar
The Many Oaths of Jean-Jacques Dessaline
I doubt anyone here knows of Jean-Jacques Dessaline. He was the first president of Haiti after the former slave-island had defeated the army of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804, who had invaded the island with an army of 40,000 battle-hardened French…
Tracing the Gentleman’s International League of Gutter Trash
I started this little investigation into gutter trashery with Joe Biden for Joe is pre-Baby Boomer, so comes from a generation who should have known the value of keeping little private weaknesses out of the public eye. So, just in terms of the…