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Reflection of our times…
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 7:55 AM
Archives for 2009
Obama scraps Bush’s European missile defense plan
Friday, September 18, 2009 at 5:32 AM
By scrapping former President George W. Bush’s European missile defense plan yesterday, President Obama finally gave his liberal supporters a foreign policy initiative they can cheer about. After all, to date, his initiatives have been distinguished by the fact that he was adopting all of Bush’s. Here, for example, is how I commented on their… Read more.
Carter says whites resent Pres. Obama because he’s black. No s#*+!
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 5:21 AM
Former President Jimmy Carter is creating quite a media furor today with an interview during which he said that much of the vile, ignorant and hysterical opposition to President Obama’s initiatives (on display at town hall meetings all across America in August) is based on old-fashioned racism. Here, in part, is what he said: I think overwhelming… Read more.
President Obama is right, Kanye is a “jackass”
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 5:11 AM
No doubt you’ve seen a replay of the way rapper Kanye West bum rushed the stage during Sunday’s MTV Music Video Awards (MVAs), yanked the microphone from 19-year-old country singer Taylor Swift – who was delivering her thank-you speech after receiving the award for best female video, and shouted the following: Yo Taylor, I’m really… Read more.
Serena snaps; Kim Clijsters triumphs at US Open
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 5:26 AM
Saturday’s semifinal match between Serena Williams and Kim Clijsters of Belgium was billed as little more than a tune-up for Serena’s berth into the championship final. Because everyone thought that the clock was about to strike midnight on Kim’s fairytale comeback – after taking two years off to have a baby. But after the first… Read more.
Coarsening Trend of Political Debate in America Portends Civil Strife
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 5:19 AM
In an interview on 60 Minutes last night, President Obama lamented the coarsening of political debate and expressed forlorn hope that he can “bring civility back to Washington.” With all due respect Mr President, no you can’t. And nothing demonstrates this quite like the way a heretofore obscure Republican Congressman, Joe Wilson, is now being heralded… Read more.
Memorializing 9/11 … again
Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 6:51 AM
I’m all for remembering (and even honoring) the victims of 9/11. (Although, I wonder why nobody seems to remember the victims of Oklahoma City or Pearl Harbor…?) But these annual memorials are becoming a little contrived, don’t you think? I can’t imagine they will continue (annually) after the 10th anniversary, do you? At which point it… Read more.
UPDATE: Semenya, “female” World Champion, is a Hermaphrodite
Friday, September 11, 2009 at 6:10 AM
It’s doubtful that she’s had a sex change. And even if the test finds abnormalities in her chromosomal and hormonal makeup, this should not disqualify her gender identity … or her performance. [Gender-blending South African athlete pilloried at Worlds, TIJ, August 21, 2009] This, in part, was my take on the controversy that erupted at the World… Read more.
Bar obese people from flying?
Friday, September 11, 2009 at 5:18 AM
Given the growing pandemic of obesity, it behooves commercial airlines to establish industry-wide standards to determine whether, or under what circumstances, obese people should be barred from flying. What happened to Emery Orto last week is a case in point: Orto is a 6-ft, 350-lb man who was barred from flying a Southwest Airlines (return) flight… Read more.
Iran arming America’s enemies in Afghanistan…duh!
Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 5:42 AM
Despite the fact that ragtag insurgents in Iran and Afghanistan have bedeviled US forces for almost a decade, Americans continue to boast that the US is the most powerful military power in the history of mankind. But if the vietnamization of these two wars is not enough to humble them, perhaps Iran’s role in aiding… Read more.