Archives for June 2007

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Just moments ago, the Judge who originally sentenced Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail ordered her back to do the remainder of her time. And so, despite all the drama (complete with Sheriff’s deputies hauling Paris out of court bawling her eyes out and screaming “It’s not right….Mom…Mom?!”), all’s well that ends well…. NOTE:… Read more.

I’m ready to do this. I want to be treated like everybody else. I want to do the time. I want to do it right. [So said Paris Hilton just hours before reporting to jail, which prompted me to exclaim, incredulously, “bullshit!” when a video clip of her uttering these patently-disingenuous words was played on… Read more.

Leaders of the world’s richest and most powerful nations are meeting in Heiligendamm, Germany over the next few days for their annual G8 summit. And, true to form, their agenda promises comfort only to fools because their gabfests will produce nothing except more CO2 emissions (i.e. hot air); which, of course, is ironic considering that… Read more.

Here’s how I began my 7 March 2007 commentary on the conviction of VP Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff (and de facto fall guy), I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby: Most Washingtonians seemed genuinely shocked yesterday when word broke that – after 10 days of deliberations – a jury had convicted Scooter Libby on four counts… Read more.

[T]he FBI not only caught Democrat William Jefferson on videotape accepting marked bills under his dinner table at the Ritz Hotel, but later found those bills stored amongst $90,000 similar bills in the freezer of his Washington, DC townhouse. [The iPINIONS Journal 11 December 2006] This is how I expressed my cynicism about and consternation… Read more.

People can’t stop talking about Paris Hilton going to jail. Some have tried to engage me in idle banter about her reversal of fortune. Others have even accused me of being a snob for failing to write about it.  The four bimbos of the Apocalypse If I didn’t know better, I’d think the following four stories were the… Read more.

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I used to like Jimmy Carter…until his bitching – as an (energizer-bunny) arm-chair ex-president – prevailed upon a thin-skinned and fickle President Bill Clinton to diss members of his own administration to quell Carter’s vainglorious criticisms. And, his bitching was never more persistent, and Clinton’s appeasement of it never more egregious, than when Carter ingratiated… Read more.

My 20 April 2007 “Good (news) Friday” feature was entitled Wither Wolfowitz: The belated comeuppance of another Bush man. And in it I reveled in the professional humiliation career staffers at the World Bank were inflicting upon their swaggering (Bush-lite) boss Paul Wolfowitz – in a remarkably organized and sustained effort to force him to… Read more.