I really enjoy cinema. And I appreciate the attention the Oscars often give to good but relatively unseen films like Babel. Of course, with all due respect to critics and members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Academy), how much a film makes, not whether the Academy awards it an Oscar,… Read more.
Archives for 2007
Alas, the hazards of traveling by plane occur more on the ground than in the air
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Good (news) Friday: The Anna Nicole (surreality) show is finally over
Yesterday, in a blabbering, blubbering and bloviating ruling, the Judge in the Anna Nicole burial farce ordered his “friend of the court” to supervise the return of her body to The Bahamas to be buried next to her son (who died from a drug overdose just three days after the birth of her daughter last… Read more.
Celebrities defect in droves from the Clintons’ “2 for 1” presidential campaign
Nothing has distinguished Sen Barack Obama’s nascent presidential campaign quite like the rush of Hollywood players – who supported Bill Clinton in two elections – enlisting to help Obama defeat Hillary. And no one has unnerved the Clintons more with his defection than entertainment mogul David Geffen (center) – the man credited with raising over… Read more.
Japan should apologize and pay reparations to its emancipated sex slaves
Many people around the world are familiar with the persistent pleadings by black Americans for the U.S. Congress to apologize and pay reparations to them for slavery, which ended almost 150 years ago. In fact their pleadings have even inspired political leaders in the Caribbean to file similar claims with the UK Parliament. But I… Read more.
Anna Nicole Smith’s ‘Friendship’ with Bahamian Minister of Immigration Forces Him to Resign
Anna Nicole Smith’s ‘friendship’ with Bahamian minister Shane Gibson is the Bahamian Minister of Immigration and Labour. A week ago, pictures of him in compromising positions with the late Anna Nicole Smith went viral. Those images gave the impression they were more than friends. I argued that those pictures left Prime Minister Perry Christie no… Read more.
Blacks unabridged dictionary of political correctness
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The world was aglow this week over North Korea’s new (mafia-style) Valentine
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Move over Anna Nicole, Britney’s coming down…
But never mind North Korea’s scary Valentine because the scary news most people will be talking about today is that Britney Spears has gone (even more) wild and exposed her unsightly bald spot…again. But this time she’s decided to expose her bald head to match the bald crotch that she’s become so fond of showing… Read more.
Good (news) Friday: This Journal is two years old!
Yesterday, I celebrated the two-year anniversary of The iPINIONS Journal, which is quite a feat considering I did not think it would survive two months. Therefore, I would like to celebrate the occasion by thanking all readers, especially the few who have supported it from day one. I launched this journal after being persuaded that… Read more.