Scott Graber is a lawyer, novelist, veteran columnist and longtime resident of Port Royal. He can be reached at cscottgraber@gmail.com.
Today the principal problem in these parts is the fact that roads, bridges, sewer capacity cannot keep up with the growth. Now we sit — stationary in our idling SUVs — wondering what has happened to this stunning, pristine place.
Graber: We can’t get to it – we’re full up, boys Read More »
It is Saturday and this morning I have my coffee, my laptop, and a front-row seat on the on-going redistricting debate in the South Carolina Senate.
Delaying the inevitable? Read More »
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.
Be cautious bringing AI into practice of law Read More »
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.
Somewhere, someplace, his father must be smiling Read More »
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.
Back to the future? Read More »
My father — a man who spent his life writing about infection — spent his retirement doing small tasks.
A retirement of ‘staying in the moment’ Read More »
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.
Runaway growth is dangerous but may be inevitable Read More »
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.
I despair at the silent hallways, darkened courtrooms Read More »
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.
To drop or not to drop – that is the question Read More »
