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Few things political have given me more perverse pleasure in recent years than commenting on the way Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez kept thumbing his nose at U.S. President George W. Bush. Remember how he began his address before the UN General Assembly in 2006? The Devil came here yesterday. [He crosses himself, then clasps his… Read more.
Chris Christie claimed during his bloviating press conference on Tuesday that he decided not to run for the Republican presidential nomination because he did not want to pull a Palin and abandon his job as governor less than two years into his first term. But every political insider knows the real reason is that Christie faced the simple fact… Read more.
On January 30, 2010, in a tongue-in-cheek commentary entitled Technology is God. Jobs is Moses. And iPad is His 4th Commandment, I wrote the following: Technology’s Commandments … (according to Apple): * Thou shall buy a Mac * Thou shall buy an iPod * Thou shall buy an iPhone * Thou shall buy an iPad…… Read more.
Think what you will of Sarah Palin, but she made a really good first impression on the national stage: remember her VP-nomination speech in 2008? Of course, she’s been such an unmitigated embarrassment since then that Republicans can be forgiven for thinking that speech was just a political wet dream. Which makes watching her flirtation… Read more.
The schadenfreude is palpable among those who think [the 2008 financial crisis] heralds the belated comeuppance of rich investment bankers who have been living easy on Wall Street for far too long—primarily by ‘racking up big profits and then sticking it to the taxpayer when things go sour’. And even though some glee over their… Read more.
It would be an understatement to say that I became indignant when someone posed this question to me yesterday during a water-cooler chat with three colleagues. Like everyone else we were gabbing about the release of Amanda Knox. And, trust me, it was clear that he asked it more in disdain than in jest. I ignored… Read more.
[Author’s Note: On the odd occasion interest in one of my commentaries is such that my webmaster prevails upon me to run it for two-consecutive days. It will probably come as no surprise to any of you that this is one of those occasions. The commentary below was originally published yesterday, Tuesday, at 5:28 am.] [A]nti-Americanism was… Read more.
I’ve been a devout viewer of 60 Minutes for as long as I can remember. And the highlight was often the segment entitled “A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney” at the end of each episode. Mind you, it wasn’t just his homespun delivery, which often made it seem like he was playing a Saturday Night Live spoof of himself.… Read more.
KKK imagery The top of the Washington Monument looks like the hood of a Ku Klux Klansman. This was thrown into stark relief last week. The media were covering workers repelling down the Monument. They were inspecting the damage caused by the recent earthquake. Most people seemed mesmerized by the workers’ Cirque-du-Soleil acrobatics. But I… Read more.
