by Scott Stearman | Sep 22, 2022 | Opinion
No one today doubts the marketing dictum that “sex sells.” Magazine covers, book jackets, television commercials, even restaurant advertisements often demonstrate this truism: a bit of flesh, a hint of the salacious, grabs attention like few other things do. What is...
by Scott Stearman | Aug 8, 2022 | Opinion
Poet Mary Oliver ends her poem “Daisies” remarking about the “suitability of the field for the daisies and the daisies for the field.” She rightly sees, and celebrates, a kind of symbiotic relationship between the wildflowers and the fields in which they grow. For...
by Scott Stearman | Apr 5, 2022 | Opinion
Intent and premeditation have long been a part of criminal justice. This is true historically and it is true internationally. The severity of the crime is partly determined by what led up to it. Judges rightly distinguish a murder of momentary passion from a murder...
by Scott Stearman | Feb 1, 2022 | Opinion
Today is the one-year anniversary of a military coup in the country of Burma (Myanmar). In the last year, the country has been in a civil war. Civilian casualties mount. Hunger is rampant. Democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to prison....
by Scott Stearman | Jan 20, 2022 | Opinion
It’s easy to get weary looking at the international headlines. Authoritarianism is on the rise in Russia and China. The former seems ready to invade Ukraine, and the latter has roughly one million of its citizens in concentration camps. Myanmar (Burma) is in the midst...
