Name the team. They win the NBA Championship. Police cars are overturned and set ablaze.  Stores are broken into and looted. Yet when an unarmed man appears to be wrongfully shot and subsequently dies, as in Ferguson MO, police cars are overturned and set ablaze.  Stores are broken into and looted. It tasks the imagination to connect these diametrically opposite emotional events to these nearly identical reactions.  One event exudes elation. Our team has won the championship. The other event draws anger, sadness, and calls for facts and explanation.  But the lawless reaction is the same.  Why? There is only one apparent answer.  Until a further explanation is offered, or a better one, it appears that whenever an “excuse” to break the law is presented, such as a championship or an apparent wrongful death, a certain ilk will be sure to break it.  Sadly, it has become accepted practice under either excuse. This is not to pass...(Read Full Post)