Mitchell's Ramblings

One of my less-agreeable clients was a fourteen-year-old boy named (I am not making this up) Keon Pleasant. The first time I met the young M...

When I was working at Meade Data Central in 1990/1991, I answered phones and helped people extract information from the LEXIS/NEXIS database...

Back in the early 1960s, there was a black kid named Joe in Temple Texas in ninth grade. His mom was having a tough time of it with four chi...

One of the neatest things I learned from Professor Blakey at Notre Dame was, “some of you are going to become public officials. Some of you ...

When I was at Notre Dame Law School, I once heart Professor G. Robert Blakey comment on the all-too-frequent phenomenon of politicians cheat...

George Whalen was a Mormon kid from Utah. Shortly after the outbreak of WWII, he enlisted in the United States Navy and was trained as a co...

In the 1960s, as President Kennedy enjoyed a level of a level of slavishly devoted adoration from the press corps, not to be equalled until ...