Last March, the nowinfamous Duke University rape scandal was primarily a cause celebre for liberal bloggers who were demanding that all 34 (white) players on the lacrosse team be hanged by their gonads after a (black) stripper accused some of them of raping her. And, to my eternal shame, I had no compunctions about joining… Read more.
Archives for 2006
‘Butch’ Kerzner of The Atlantis Resorts Is Dead…
Butch Kerzner was the CEO of Kerzner International Holdings. Those holdings include the Atlantis Hotel and Casino on Paradise Island, The Bahamas. It is an iconic and pioneering resort. This is why Kerzner’s sudden death on Wednesday left Bahamians in shock. Butch Kerzner of The Atlantis His father Sol is more famous. But Butch was… Read more.
Don’t believe your lying eyes (and freezing butts), global warming is “An Inconvenient Truth”?
Of course, convincing the people of Buffalo, New York (now burrowing their way out of 2 feet of snow) that they’re experiencing global warming is rather like convincing Eskimos that they’re living in the tropics…. Buffalo snow, global warming Read more.
Cooling of U.S. housing market incites irrational fears in Americans for whom recession is a foreign word…
Courtesy Jim Day ’06, The Las Vegas Review Journal News and Politics Read more.
Good (news) Friday: Turkish novelist, Orhan Pamuk, wins Nobel Prize in Literature!
I know, I know, who cares, right?! After all, more often than not, the winner of this prize is an author who few people have ever heard of and whose books even fewer people have ever read. But consider this folks: Many authors have won the Nobel Prize for stirring the conscience of their nation… Read more.
Plane crash sends New York (and all of America) into 9/11 panic mode…
At around 3 PM yesterday, news outlets all over America ceased idle reporting on international reaction to Kim Jong IL’s (alleged) nuclear weapons test, the fallout from the Mark Foley (Congressional-Page) sex scandal and even on the breaking news of Madonna following the new celebrity fashion of adopting African babies the way others adopt exotic… Read more.
The New York Yankees: The worst Baseball team money could buy!
Admittedly, I’m not a big Baseball fan. In fact, I pay no attention to the sport until after Labor Day when Division Championships begin in earnest. And even then, I find highlights on ESPN SportCenter enough to satisfy my interest. But the New York Yankees transcend sport to such a degree that they make news… Read more.
Angelina Jolie in Blackface to Play Mariane Pearl
In a controversial move, Angelina Jolie has donned blackface for her newest role. She is playing Mariane Pearl, the widow of Daniel Pearl. Daniel Pearl was the Wall Street Journal reporter whom Muslim extremists kidnapped and subsequently killed, releasing footage of his beheading online. Angelina Jolie in blackface Of course, Jolie is becoming almost as famous for her charitable… Read more.
Okay, so North Korea has nukes…we think. Now what?!
As a general proposition, possessing nuclear weapons is sheer lunacy, which makes the United States and Russia the biggest lunatic nations in the history of mankind. Beyond this, trying to control which countries possess nuclear weapons under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is as inherently unfair as it is patently unenforceable. After all, every sovereign… Read more.
Has British PM Tony Blair lost so much credibility (and hair) over Iraq that he’s leaving his Labour Party no better off than it was 12 years ago?
After 11 years as Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher was unceremoniously ousted, not by the British electorate, but by a cabal of “wobbly” backbenchers in her own Conservative Party. Now, after 12 years in office, Tony Blair has been ousted – in similar fashion and with no less humiliation – by a coven of Machiavellian princes… Read more.