Great evil and what happens to the children
It is Saturday, and we have, at long last, rain; a lawn that is once again green; and I must admit this gives me some contentment.
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Scott Graber is a lawyer, novelist, veteran columnist and longtime resident of Port Royal. He can be reached at cscottgraber@gmail.com.
It is Saturday, and we have, at long last, rain; a lawn that is once again green; and I must admit this gives me some contentment.
Great evil and what happens to the children Read More »
As George Washington University turns out graduates who are fluent in the application of Artificial Intelligence, GW should be cautious when considering whether AI should enter into the actual judging part of this ancient, Magna Carta-inspired process.
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It is Sunday, and I’m in Port Royal. This afternoon I’m sitting with Leigh Stone in my small grey-painted study, and we’re talking about Oxytetracycline — a broad spectrum antibiotic discovered by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in 1949.
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What is now happening is a return to the “Gunboat Diplomacy” we saw on the Orinoco River in Venezuela in 1898; the Yangtze River Patrol in China in 1902; and the attack on Veracruz in 1914.
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My father — a man who spent his life writing about infection — spent his retirement doing small tasks.
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Well folks it’s official. Jasper County is — as reported by the Charleston Post and Courier — the fastest growing county in the United States of America.
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Jury trials were once a big part of small town entertainment and, of course, a staple of Southern fiction. Some, including myself, despair at the silent hallways and darkened courtrooms.
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It seems to me that we are, in effect, turning some people into Satan — at least from the no-trial, no-presumption-of-innocence, no-Geneva-Convention-protections standpoint.
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The Port Royal epidemic in 1877 appears to have been the last reported outbreak of this disease in South Carolina. In 1900, Cuban doctors discovered that the mosquito was the “vector” for this disease and today there is an effective vaccine. Whether or not these newly found bones are connected to 1877 remains a mystery.
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Port Royal is now entering its “festival season” — plein air events usually centered on pulled pork barbecue or soft-shelled crabs that come with a “side” of antique Ford Fairlane and handcrafted items made entirely of bottle caps.
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