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The whole world is watching!
The past two days saw the Senate vote that “late” impeachment’s were constitutional and the House Managers begin to unleash a devastating...
Geoff Schoos
Feb 11, 20214 min read
Open letter to senator Rand paul
Dear Senator Paul, Last week you raised a point of order that declared the February 8 impeachment proceedings to be unconstitutional....
Geoff Schoos
Feb 2, 20216 min read
Open letter to represenative Kevin McCarthy.
Dear Representative McCarthy, I am writing in response to an interview this past weekend in which you stated that “everyone” was...
Geoff Schoos
Jan 26, 20214 min read
“Democracy has prevailed”
Two weeks ago to the day, a riotous mob invaded the Capitol and attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election by disenfranchising...
Geoff Schoos
Jan 20, 20213 min read
Revolutionary chic
In 1970, the author Tom Wolfe wrote a magazine article entitled “Radical Chic: That Party At Lenny’s.” “Lenny” was Leonard Bernstein who...
Geoff Schoos
Jan 10, 20215 min read
It can happen here
In the 1930s, Sinclair Lewis wrote a novel entitled “It Can’t Happen Here.” The novel transposed what was happening in Europe to the...
Geoff Schoos
Dec 31, 20204 min read
GoLocalProv...
GoLocalProv is a great friend to me and is a locally owned source of news. They cover national, regional and local news, along with...
Geoff Schoos
Dec 12, 20201 min read
None dare call it treason
John Harrington, a late 16th and early 17th century courtier to Queen Elizabeth and King James I, once famously wrote, "Treason doth...
Geoff Schoos
Dec 11, 20204 min read
Respect - two vignettes
Long ago, in the Dark Ages of 1967, Aretha Franklin released what would soon be the classic song "Respect." This is a song about a woman...
Geoff Schoos
Dec 1, 20206 min read
Giving Thanks that Giuliani is not my lawyer
In a February 1, 2017 Mindsetter™ published by GoLocalProv, I wrote: If the banality of Donald Trump continues unabated, morphing into a...
Geoff Schoos
Nov 25, 20207 min read
Ulysses redoux
(NOTE: This is a repost of a previous post that was half published. This will contain the entire post) I'm not a very introspective...
Geoff Schoos
Nov 17, 20206 min read
Ulysses
I'm not a very introspective person. All my adult life has been consumed in my work, whether it was teaching or lawyering. But with the...
Geoff Schoos
Nov 15, 20203 min read
Post election hijinks
The hallmark of a democracy is that each of us are encouraged and allowed to vote, and that all our votes are counted. That's the theory...
Geoff Schoos
Nov 6, 20203 min read
"til we outnumber 'em
These are uncertain times we live in. As we approach this election on November 3, we might feel inadequate, thinking that each of us has...
Geoff Schoos
Nov 1, 20202 min read
The Coney Barrett kabuki - the full kabuki
Yesterday I attempted to post a commentary of the first day of real testimony from Judge Amy Coney Barrett in her confirmation hearings....
Geoff Schoos
Oct 14, 20205 min read
The Comey Barrett kabuki - day 1
I never wanted this to be a politics blog, at least not in any partisan sense. Rather, I hoped that this blog would concentrate on public...
Geoff Schoos
Oct 12, 20203 min read
The survey says...!
Today I received an email from the Rhode Island Bar's Task Force on Diversity & Inclusion. I have to confess I didn't know we had such a...
Geoff Schoos
Oct 6, 20203 min read
I don’t normally rant about stupid people, but...
My wife and I have had long discussions about the difference between dumb and stupid. I argued that in my own sloppy slang usage, the...
Geoff Schoos
Sep 29, 20204 min read
CDC Moratorium
Currently there is a nationwide affordable housing crisis that is bumping into the ongoing COVID - 19 Pandemic. This has been an ongoing...
Geoff Schoos
Sep 14, 20203 min read
Why I wrote this book...
If you’ve been following my posts about my book you might have wondered, “who the hell is this guy and why’d he write this book.” Don’t...
Geoff Schoos
Aug 27, 20201 min read
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