If you’re ever called to serve on a jury in the U.S., please listen very carefully to the judge’s instructions and take your role very seriously.

Most of us know that jurors in criminal trials are forbidden from discussing their ongoing cases with anyone outside of the jury deliberation room.

But what if you post your conclusions about [more...]

They started talking about using full-body security scanners in airports a few years ago.

Even though they told us that the security personnel who would be viewing the completely nude images of airline passengers would be highly trained, and the imaging machines would not be capable of storing those images, many of us were outraged at the idea. [more...]

A few months ago, a little girl, with her parents’ permission and blessing, tried to break the world’s record for being the youngest person to sail around the world by herself.

When she got into trouble out on the ocean, she used [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that I’m a domestic violence survivor.

They also know that, after enduring decades of abuse from my biological family, my wife and I finally cut off all contact with them more than four years ago, and moved on with our lives. Afterward, as part of our healing, we legally changed our last name. Yesterday was the [more...]

If nothing else good comes out of all of the recent controversial privacy breeches and vulnerabilities on social networking sites, I’m glad to see that they have at least spurred increased discussion of the related issues.

I think that’s a very good thing, because it seems to me that much of the “discussion” up until now has been mostly a one-sided, self-serving soliloquy from the social networking sites — sites that [more...]