History Has Its Eyes on Us
Most of you know that I teach AP United States History and AP United States Government and Politics at the high school level, and that I was, for years, a lawyer on both the defense and the prosecutorial sides of the criminal justice line, and filing the occasional habeas corpus or con law-oriented argument in appellate court. The work load kept my mind sharp, but I was burning out on the lack of making any dent in the problems that I saw every day in the courthouse. It was this constant, nagging feeling that I was slapping a band-aid on a huge, gaping wound, throwing a problem in jail for a bit, but knowing that the issues involved would not fully heal. When I was blogging full time, there were moments when I felt like I was making a dent -- a legislative victory that I helped push over the line; a legal analysis that got into the mainstream press, especially during the Libby trial coverage days; and highlighting issues that might otherwise go unmentioned becau...
