When I went to law school, it looked like the movie “Paper Chase;” classic, cavernous lecture halls, windy old professors droning on about the arcane details of the subject matter…and, well, lots of people not listening. That, it seems, happens in medical school too and research shows it’s a poor way to teach. So, there […]

It seems like forever that people have debated whether we are born a certain way or whether our upbringing causes us to be as we are now. This “nature vs. nurture” argument has gotten into some strange places, like eugenics and master race/Aryan talk, but it is also (at least in my opinion) a legitimate […]

Our show receives checks to our post office box, but the number and volume is very small compared to our online revenue streams. Without the Internet, our business would not exist and I mean that quite literally. The same is true for many others, of course, and that includes the American Nazis, the KKK and […]

The scam we discuss today has happened to me twice – once with a credit card, once with a debit card. The instances were many years apart and the sophistication of the criminals has gotten better over time. We’re talking about stealing enough information to fabricate a duplicate card and then use the fake card […]

The law allows the American President to impose trade sanctions under different conditions. One of those conditions is after a process through the U.S. International Trade Commission and that process is happening now – with solar panels as the issue. It seems China has undercut the market and is bankrupting the U.S. solar panel industry. […]

The New York Times does real journalism and we see it again in today’s BTN segment. Fox (the Fox “News” Channel parent company) has recently settled several sexual harassment claims, for major dollars, and Roger Ailes got fired, along with Bill O’Reilly and others. Well, one of those others is himself now suing Fox. It […]

The facts are so sad and tragic as to cause tears: An eight year old boy killed himself after an alleged bullying incident at school. His parents have filed a lawsuit, claiming the school is legally responsible for his death. The nature of the incident preceding his death is being disputed, but the case alleges […]

The famous pop singer, actor and performer Usher is in the news, as he stands accused of exposing three people to a sexually-transmitted disease. The central allegation is that he knew he had an STD but failed to disclose it when having sex with the three individual plaintiffs. This is civil litigation, so we’ll do […]

You may have heard about the Google engineer who published – using internal Google resources – a long dissertation about the differences between men and women, especially in tech. Well, it got leaked publicly, and he got fired, after quite a brouhaha. He is now reportedly contemplating a lawsuit and today, when we go Beyond […]

On December 4, 2015 and July 17, 2017, we did BTN’s that covered the efforts of a private credit union to become the first cannabis credit union in America. Those efforts were largely unsuccessful, but now there is a new effort under discussion – one that would make matters much more difficult for the federal […]