Soul Food: Week of September 27, 2026
The power of just mercy is that it belongs to the undeserving. It’s when mercy is least expected that it’s most potent – strong enough to break the cycle of victimization & victimhood ...
Iranians Learning “Might Makes Right” in War?
When will US plainly argue it’s OK when its laws wedded to inalienable human rights are at odds with international law based largely on raw political power? Any better example than today’s UN empathy for Islamic Republic & its ICC creation over USA & Israel?
MAGAs Do Not Think Like God or Pope Leo
Pope Leo & I grew up on Chicago’s Southside, so we likely have that classic Catholic guilt complex. I still say 3 Our Fathers & 3 Hail Mary’s daily after confessing Davd Soul is Darryl Van Duch’s pen name. What if Leo’s “politics” were tried in court?
Soul Food: Week of September 20, 2026
Hosanna, our King is victorious...
Hung Clancy Juror Had “No Doubts”
The lone holdout, a black man, debunks the character assassination allegations against him by defense counsel & other jurors? After he refused to let a “temporarily” psycho Lindsay Clancy off murder charges in the strangulation of her 3 young kids?
“The Practice” of Criminal Law & Ethics 101
It’s worth clarifying that any defense lawyer, even Clancy’s, can know his client is guilty & still be ethically obligated to defend her. Yet, that obligation is NOT to obtain acquittal at any cost & certainly not to knowingly aid or abet a crime …
AI’s Deep Throat & Following the Real Money
AI’s old news so the sudden media frenzy & pols’ handwringing over its “existential threat to humanity” predictably comes as the next election nears. Rather than “when” AI will kill us all, aren’t the key Qs “how” this nonsense rebooted & “who” is behind it?
Devlin's Clancy Trial Admission Is in the Details
We’re told “Personal Agendas Are Creeping Into the Therapy Room” as more therapists are suspected of bias. But didn’t the Clancy murder trial show the woke shrinks have even entered the courtroom as 11 of 12 jurors bought defense’s “victim” pitch?
Master Artist Jesus Answers Atheists’ Eternal Q
Facts are facts & commonsense builds on them for understanding. If true, does “The universe’s beautiful fine-tuning leave atheism facing its biggest question” on how it got created? Is it a Q atheists still can’t answer? Can anything or anyone else?
Soul Food: Week of September 13, 2026
Meaningless! Meaningless! Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless. The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem
