Archives for 2006

Congressman Mark Foley Congressman Mark Foley Read more.

Last December, I incurred the wrath of many normally collegial readers of this weblog for writing an article, here, entitled OH MY GOD! The government’s been spying on us…. They were incensed because I ridiculed the shock and moral outrage people expressed after reading (or, more likely, hearing second hand) about the NSA domestic surveillance… Read more.

This week, CNN is featuring a series on Africa entitled Killing Fields: Africa’s Misery, The World’s Shame. The host of this chronicling of Africa’s persistent woes is Anderson Cooper who has been promoting it with the following indignant charge: …this humanitarian crisis has received virtually no attention from the media over the past few years.… Read more.

North Korean President Kim Jong-Il is a temperamental and insecure man. Only this explains his habit of making nuclear threats from time to time. Whenever he does, he commands the international attention he craves so pathologically and extorts the aid his people need so desperately… This explains why he’s s jealous of the way the international… Read more.

Almost a year ago, riots by disaffected and unassimilated black and Muslim youths in France disabused many Europeans of the rosy scenario they harbored about racism in Europe. And, not surprisingly, many white Americans expressed unbridled schadenfreude that these Europeans – who routinely criticized the epidemic of racism in America – were now being singed… Read more.

…anyone who is even contemplating a sexual assault against a child, understand that your life will be ruined. [Rep. Mark Foley announcing the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 just months ago] In a desperate attempt to compete with the trash cable news channels put out 24/7, news divisions at the major… Read more.

Bill Clinton, George W Bush Read more.

Given the “EXTRA! EXTRA!” coverage the American media have devoted to the launch of Bob Woodward’s pre-ordained bestseller State of Denial, one could be forgiven the impression that his book contains devastating new revelations about President George W. Bush’s intentional misrepresentations concerning the state of affairs in Iraq. For example, the tease for Woodward’s promotional… Read more.

Anthropologists have unveiled yet more evidence that white (in fact all non-black) people are just pea-brained blacks who continually left the confines of their African tribes – beginning around 4 millions years ago – for hunting and gathering outings, got lost and ended up on the other continents of the world. But, once there, the… Read more.

I do not believe Terrell Owens (T.O.) was rushed to the hospital on Tuesday because he was dying from depression. Instead, I suspect he was rushed there because he was dying for attention. After all, with T.O., it’s all about getting attention: if not on the field, then by any means necessary…. Remember folks, this… Read more.