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Last week there were record gains on Wall Street; this week there are record losses. But trying to get even the savviest market analyst to provide a rational explanation for this is rather like trying to get a monkey to do algebra. In fact, major markets around the world continue to rise and fall based… Read more.
I have written repeatedly that Hell will freeze over before the Palestinians and Israelis resolve all of the issues that are forestalling Palestinian statehood. Here, for example, is the utter cynicism I expressed when President Obama began aping former President Bush by making patently fatuous pronouncements in this respect: Given this Bush precedent, not to mention the 60-year futility of… Read more.
Just two days ago I had cause to jump all over author Joe McGinnis for writing a biography of Sarah Palin that was more worthy of a hack reporter for the National Enquirer than the critically acclaimed author he purports to be. Well today I am compelled to comment on another book. This one is… Read more.
I have always been a bigger fan of the politics The Beatles advocated than of the songs they sang. I especially admired their anti-war views which, to their credit, they actually sang about in songs like Revolution and Give Peace a Chance. But it seems I may have just cause to become an even bigger… Read more.
What is it with Republican presidential candidates queuing up to seek Donald Trump’s blessings as if he were the friggin’ Pope?! Last week Rick Perry ascended the stairs of his gilded, eponymously named tower in NYC for this purpose; Mitt Romney is scheduled to do the same next week; and Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann made their… Read more.
This morning Obama unveiled a comprehensive package of reasonable and balanced measures to cut the debt by $3 trillion and reform America’s tax code, which is now so heavily rigged in favor of rich folks that a school teacher pays a higher tax rate than a billionaire investor like Warren Buffet. Yet, true to form,… Read more.
A critically acclaimed author like Joe McGinniss writing a biography of Sarah Palin is akin to a critically acclaimed TV critic like Tom Shales writing a review of The Jersey Shore. It’s no wonder therefore that the New York Times dismissed McGinniss’s book, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, as nothing more than “unsubstantiated gossip… Read more.
After we were treated to Mike Tyson biting off one of Evander Holyfield’s ears, I did not think boxing could descend into any more of a farce. Yet this erstwhile sport has never ceased to amaze me in this respect ever since. Evidently, last night’s bout between Floyd Mayweather and Victor Ortiz was no exception. For reports… Read more.
I caught a bit of Charlie Sheen’s appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night. He claims to have had a successful stint in rehab and that he is now “absolutely sober”. Never mind that he couldn’t remember the last time he took drugs or drank alcohol. Or that this short-term memory loss indicates… Read more.
