Look, I want to give Bill Cosby his props. He’s been speaking up courageously for years on the problems within the black community, and he’s gotten a lot of flak for it. It can’t have been easy for him. Here … Continue reading →
Here it is: “I think what Kate [Middleton] has done for new moms has really given them a tremendous gift,” thebump.com editor Lori Richmond told ABC News. The duchess glowed as she debuted her little prince outside St. Mary’s Hospital … Continue reading →
…Strauss-Kahn should just run for mayor of New York. And lest you say “he can’t; he’s French,” I don’t see any impediment. I could be missing something, but the rules say nothing about being a US citizen: Requirements: The Mayor … Continue reading →
It doesn’t quite have the ring of Rosie the Riveter, but it’s quite a story nonetheless. Rasputin’s daughter, ending up in Los Angeles—of course, why not? So, did Rasputin himself get a bad press? [NOTE: This post was sparked by … Continue reading →
…just act like an extrovert and you’ll be happier. Well, of course. I’ve been attempting to do that, with a modicum of success, for decades. I call myself an extroverted introvert. And Rogers and Hammerstein were well aware of the … Continue reading →
I had heard about the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein back in college. The sum total of what I knew about him was that he said something or other about how we can’t speak about things we have no words for. But … Continue reading →
In an excellent article (please read the whole thing), Shelby Steele writes: In the Zimmerman/Martin case the civil-rights establishment is fighting for the poetic truth that white animus toward blacks is still such that a black teenager””Skittles and ice tea … Continue reading →
…that masked man?: George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue a family who was trapped in an overturned vehicle, police said today. Zimmerman was … Continue reading →
…from this post of Ace’s is that Al Sharpton is 58. Fifty-eight? He looks seventy-eight to me. I consider fifty-eight young (hey, I’m starting to consider seventy-eight kinda young, too. It’s all in the attitude, right?) Sharpton used to be … Continue reading →
[See addenda below, as well.] Not for anything that happened during the trial itself, of course. She gets immunity for that. But the minute I heard that Corey had given a post-trial interview to the media in which she called … Continue reading →
Why, Al Sharpton, that’s who. I was previously unfamiliar with many of the details in the story at the above link; please read the whole thing. Who among the three suffered the most at the hands of Sharpton? For Zimmerman, … Continue reading →
Thomas Sowell is a real favorite here for his penetrating mind, superior ability to articulate his point of view, and his sharp wit. If you’ve ever seen videos of him debating (for example, here’s an epic moment) you’ll know he … Continue reading →