Archives for January 2008

And I even got a flu shot! Read more.

For the past two weeks, Wesley Snipes has been on trial in Florida for failing to pay taxes on the $38 million he earned from movies, including the “Blade” vampire trilogy, between 1999 and 2004. He faces 16 years in prison and millions in fines. But the antic egos of celebrities are such that Snipes… Read more.

In a New York Times op ed on Sunday, Caroline Kennedy proffered the truly stunning and unassailable proclamation that Sen. Barack Obama would be a “President like my father.” And there’s no denying that her proclamation is tantamount to a slap in the face of all politicians (like Bill Clinton) who, for decades, have been… Read more.

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A few of my Italian readers chastised me last October for writing that, with three governments in three years, the Ukrainians were: …on track to make the Italians’ promiscuous penchant for changing governments seem positively chaste. However, given that yet another Italian government fell yesterday, they may want to eat their words. Never mind the… Read more.

Real football fans will tell you that the most exciting day of the NFL season is League Championship Sunday, not Super Bowl Sunday (as fair-weather fans might say). And, true to form, last Sunday’s NFC Championship game between the New York Giants and Green Bay Packers (which the Giants won in OT 23-20) and AFC… Read more.

Most people seemed genuinely shocked by the news that Heath Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment yesterday of an apparent “accidental” drug overdose. Meanwhile, as I listened to everyone from entertainment reporters to his publicists offer spontaneous eulogies, I got the distinct impression that they were already committed to ensuring that the… Read more.

If Barack doesn’t win Iowa, it is just a dream. [Michelle Obama, Des Moines, Iowa September 26, 2007 – as reported by CNN] This quote by Sen. Barack Obama’s wife now has an eerily-resurgent resonance. Because it appears to have presaged not only Bill Clinton’s patronizing allusion recently to his campaign, but also the growing… Read more.

The following are Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s final words. He delivered them at the end of a sermon at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on 3 April 1968…the day before he was assassinated: Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now.… Read more.

Many people thought Hillary Clinton was being rude – during Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate – when she called President Bush “pathetic” for flying over to Saudi Arabia this week to beg King Abdullah to lower the price of oil. Whereas, in fact, she was being kind. After all, there’s something positively venal and conspiratorial about… Read more.