Well here we have Elizabeth Warren proving, for the umpteenth time, just how ridiculous is this entire issue of identity politics and this or that special program or set-aside for some particular ethnic group. If she was simply proud of the fact that she contains some almost undetectable fraction of…

A recent 10 page document produced by a senior engineer at Google regarding the company’s diversity policy and the writer’s criticism of that policy has the company is some chaos. The company’s new “Diversity VP” responded with her own lengthy document . They are: http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320 https://www.recode.net/2017/8/5/16102476/google-diversity-vp-employee-memo

Back in the 1980s, on one of the occasions I was called to serve on jury duty, I reported to the court ready to do my duty. We sat through the judge’s instructions and then began the voir dire. Both attorneys rose and spoke for about fifteen minutes to prime…

Why People Shouldn’t Always Trust Their CPA. Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Ethics in Public Accounting! Some time ago, my brother-in-law Henry and I were discussing ethics in business and how things just seem to go wrong. Henry is a retired attorney, retired from a major law firm in Houston, Texas, and since I’m a CPA and he’s a lawyer, and from Houston, we discussed a…