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Any adult who has not read any of the novels in Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander trilogy, which begins with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, is rather like a child who has not read any of the novels in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. This analogy fairly indicates what a literary phenomenon Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy,… Read more.
It speaks volumes about the brazen, pathological and pervasive nature of the “corruption crime spree” alleged against Illinois’s sitting governor, Rod Blagojevich, that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald felt moved to describe it as “staggering”. In fact, in presenting the Justice Department’s 76-page complaint, Fitzgerald claimed that, because a clearly delusional and venal Governor Blagojevich was escalating his crime spree to such irreparable… Read more.
Last weekend President Obama not only declared the Gulf Coast open for business, but even took his daughter Sasha for a swim to dispel any suspicion that the waters there were unsafe (for humans or the fish we so love to eat). It’s just too bad that his declaration was drowned out by his mixed messages… Read more.
In his Farewell Address to the American people in 1961, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned that: In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must… Read more.
This pretty much explains why President Obama and Democrats in Congress have been unable to strike agreement with Republicans on any issue. Frankly, the Republicans’ strategy for dealing with everything from the banking crisis to climate change has been every bit as cynical and simplistic as Nancy Regan’s strategy for fighting the war on drugs: “just say no“. … Read more.
Like most people I got a good laugh at the way JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater went off after a difficult passenger spewed expletives in his face and another gashed his forehead while opening the overhead bin and then refused to apologize. This abuse proved to be the last straw. Because as soon as his flight (1052 from… Read more.
It smacks of the political tone-deafness that got Bush in trouble over Katrina that Obama sees nothing wrong with commissioning Air Force One (and all of the resources his presidential travel entails) just to fly him and his wife up to New York City for dinner and a play. (Obamas’ Marie-Antoinette faux pas, The iPINIONS… Read more.
For over 10 days now, floods of biblical proportions have been devastating many areas of Pakistan, including the perennially fertile Punjab as well as the Taliban safe haven in northwest Swat valley (Thank God for small favors…?). The floods have reportedly made a flowing and swirling stew of shanty homes, bridges, schools, health clinics, power… Read more.
Given the way opponents of the plan to build a Muslim cultural center near ground zero are being portrayed in the media, one can be forgiven the impression that they are all anti-Muslim bigots. And, alas, the way some right-wing nuts are crusading against it only reinforces this impression. Talk about giving al-Qaeda fodder for propaganda…. Mind you, this… Read more.
