Through no fault of his own, aspiring baseball player Christopher Lane of Australia was in the wrong place at the wrong time. “The wrong place” was jogging on a street in Duncan, Oklahoma. The wrong time was when a trio … Continue reading →
…if I’ve got this straight: Americans voted for Obama but are angry that a black man is president. White men are killing black men willy nilly and getting away with it. And that’s why America has become more racist now … Continue reading →
Indeed: For the United States and Europe, this amounts to a colossal strategic failure. Nothing ”” and certainly not the outcome in Afghanistan or Iraq ”” was more important than getting Egypt right. President Obama, who began his presidency with … Continue reading →
When I was a child my family used to visit a large chicken farm owned by some relatives. It was a commercial operation with enormous rooms the size of football fields (or so it seemed to me at the time) … Continue reading →
…if the candidate in question is on the right. No surprise there. [NOTE: I wrote about this issue long ago (although not of course in relation to Cruz), pointing out that similar questions were raised about John McCain when he … Continue reading →
I was watching the movie “Broadcast News” last night, a film I’d seen in a movie theater when it first came out (1987), but didn’t remember all that well—except, that is, for the scene where wannabee news anchor Albert Brooks … Continue reading →
Will Mubarak actually be released now? Maybe, just maybe, could people be entertaining the thought that Mubarak’s repressiveness was a reaction to the situation in Egypt at the time he came to power? And that said situation has not changed … Continue reading →
New Jersey has become the second state (California being the first) to ban so-called “conversion therapy” for those under 18: “Ex-gay” conversion is widely discredited and refuted by major mainstream psychological groups, such as American Psychological Association. In June, the … Continue reading →
…that this sort of thing is rife in the reporting of the action in Egypt right now. Watch the video: Someone just sent me a short video clip with some footage by AlJazeera that was taken inside the mosque yesterday … Continue reading →
I got a little note from Yahoo email today saying: As part of our continuing effort to provide you with a wonderful Yahoo! Mail experience, we want to make sure the mail you send gets to the friends, family or … Continue reading →
I don’t think anyone actually listens to the president’s radio addresses (any president, not just this one), do they? What does reach people, however, are sound bites from those addresses. This latest one is really a classic example of Obamaspeak. … Continue reading →
…”if I had known I’d live this long, I would have taken better care of my teeth” a new meaning.
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