My last post on the presidential debate focused on the disastrous, lackluster, non-performance by Obama, but now I want to dissect the performance of Mitt Romney who has been declared...

Trial lawyers start working on their final argument from the first day on a case and keep working it until they get up on their feet and start talking. They...

Can you expect to persuade an audience or a jury by scowling like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did at the UN yesterday?

Damien Echols has written a book about his experiences with the criminal justice system and death row to excellent reviews. He has been doing the interview circuit and tonight I...

I waited a while to write this post about Bill Clinton’s speech to the DNC. I wanted to wait and ruminate on it rather than praise it just because I...

I have written several times about the first minute of an opening, a final argument or a public speech. The sad fact is that people stop listening quickly if you...

There is something about this film, I can’t stop telling people to see it. It is unbelievable. One of a kind. Thrilling. It sends chills down your spine. Literally. What...

How do you understand people? What they are thinking? How to see into their minds, all those coils of brain matter, with thoughts flashing between the nerve endings? How to...

Joe Cocker has lost it. The decades of drinking, drug abuse and smoking have destroyed his once iconic voice. Tonight I went to a double feature at The Greek Theater...

I took a pilgrimage of sorts today. Nothing arduous like hiking to Jerusalem or Mecca. From my LA house, I drove down the street to Sunset Boulevard, and took a...