San Jose, California.

John Adams, our second president, was the lawyer who defended the British soldiers accused in the Boston Massacre. It’s what a lawyer and a patriot does. He did it, not because he believed in his clients’ innocence, but because he believed in the rule of law.

That was my first car! Not safe, mind you, but it was mine and I loved it. One of the engineers at work called it the tennis shoe (mine was white with red stripes). Ah, the bad ol’ good ol’ days.