David Hamilton is an engineer by training and colorful by nature.  He likes to build things and has spent his adult life creating successful natural gas processing companies and utilities in two states, as well as buying and improving farms around his hometown of Worland, Wyoming.  He is a self-taught artist, painting beautiful landscapes, portraits,…

“I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.” –William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice When I told my friend (and fellow bookworm) that Strand Bookstore had just been designated a “landmark” in New York City, my friend clapped and smiled, excited at the idea that New York could preserve the Strand forever. After all,…

Photo by Quinn Dombrowski, Rights Reserved People across the political spectrum have strong opinions about whether it is a good idea to include a citizenship question on the 2020 short-form census. This blog post expresses no opinion on whether that is a good or a bad idea. Instead, it highlights some of the troubling aspects of the…

The problem with the Fourth Amendment is that it doesn’t really say what we want it to say. It “secure[s]” the “right of the people” “against unreasonable searches and seizures[.]” But it doesn’t say anything about our privacy. While courts have spent most of the last 50 years trying to work some sort of privacy…