ATTICUS FINCH AND PART ONE OF THE TROUBLE WITH CIVILITY

I mean to write at least two Articles about professional civility. Until a few months ago there was no better example of civility than Atticus Finch of Maycomb, Alabama as we knew him from To Kill a Mockingbird. Then came the recently released Go Set a Watchman and its cruel “exposure” of Atticus as a […]

A MONUMENT TO CORRUPTION

I begin with a few words about foresight or the lack of it. The first diagnosis of asbestosis came in 1924 in the UK. Despite increased knowledge of the dangers of asbestos over the next few decades, Lake County built its sprawling Crown Point Government Complex in the early 1970’s with asbestos seemingly in every […]