Mitchell's Ramblings

It would be very difficult to imagine a more striking contrast in images of American law enforcement than Officer Malloy of “One Adam 12” an...

Once many years ago back when Bush 41 was president I finished a transpacific voyage when the ship I’d been teaching on, the U.S.S. Cape Cod...

Zsa Zsa Gabor is known today as a punch line — one of Hollywood’s few celebrities who does not do a good impersonation of herself.” A commo...

There was a confederate general, John Bell Hood, who was one of the Confederacy’s bravest, though by no means one of its most talented, gen...

Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler was a German army officer from a titled Prussian family who succeeded in gaining a position as an aide to camp ...

Jack Soo was the professional name of the child of a Japanese immigrant family named Suzuki (Suzuki happens to be the Japanese name for Smi...

When I was in law school, an elderly professor told a story about a Texas Judge from long ago who was chided about the fact that in Texas t...