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Last Friday, I returned for my nearly annual invitation to speak with graduate students at George Washington University’s Human Sexuality class. From what I can tell, the fields the students might go into include school counseling, mental hospitals, and private counseling. I provided this handout...

Last night, NBC’s Weekend Today interviewed me about the overkill school suspension of high school student Courtni Webb for writing a poem about the Newtown massacre, despite her never having handed in the writing. The segment aired December 30 around 8:20 a.m. My five-minute studio interview was...

See my interview in Tara Brach’s "Finding True Refuge" in mindfulness series. The series includes Krishna Das, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, U.S. House member Tim Ryan, and, of course, Tara Brach. My interview was taped in mid-June before the start of Tara’s weekly meditation gatherings that draw at least...

BBC interviewed me today 1:30pm EDT at its Washington, D.C., television studio, for TV Channel 1’s South East Today, about Briton Christopher Tappin’s extradition and armaments prosecution, now that he is scheduled to be taken soon to the United States by extradition order. BBC Radio Kent interviews...

Earlier this month, the lawyers.com blog emailed me some questions about defending against charges of driving under the influence of marijuana. The resulting article briefly references some of my responses. Here is more from Underdog, briefly, on defending against such an accusation, including the shibboleth...

On September 9, 2011, the London Telegraph quoted me about former Yahoo! chief executive Carol Bartz’s non-disparagement clause, concerning her public complaints that the Yahoo! board "f—- her over" and about the board as "doofuses". Although the article only covers snippets of my interview, I underlined to the...

Photo from website of U.S. District Court (W.D. Mi.). Thirty-five years after I started studying and practicing French, I find Spanish much more beneficial to my professional practice. To be sure, speaking any two languages is much better than speaking just one, and I soaked...

Thanks to the Esquire magazine staffer who recently sent me the May 2011 issue that briefly covers the magazine’s interview with me about why writers’ and others’ confessions about crimes involving drugs and other activities do not automatically translate into prosecutions and convictions. I answered...

Camera image from U.S. Geological Survey website.   Today, I appeared around 2:30 p.m. EDT, pre-recorded, on BBC TV Channel 1’s South East Today, on the Christopher Tappin extradition case that I have discussed here and here. The interview at BBC’s Washington, D.C., bureau was about...

To those in the Washington, D.C., television area, watch me tonight around 5:15-5:30 p.m. on Fox 5, Washington DC, about Redskins owner Dan Snyder’s libel suit against the City Paper. The First Amendment rules, of course, always. The lawsuit filed yesterday in New York. I...