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I am loath to join the members of the inside-the-beltway commentariat who spend every day frothing at the mouth over the latest poll or political development that supposedly either portends Obama’s doom or reaffirms his messianic stature. But I simply cannot remain above the latest fray in this respect. Because there seems to be rare consensus… Read more.
I see nothing wrong with even “good girls,” like Vanessa Hudgens and Scarlett Johansson, taking nude selfies to share electronically with their lucky boyfriends. I distinguish them from “bad girls,” like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, who do the same (and a lot more), and then arrange for them to be “hacked” for purely commercial… Read more.
After Nick Leeson’s $1.5 billion in fraudulent trades caused the failure of the venerable British bank Barings in 1995, you’d think all major banks would have put in place oversight controls to ensure that no trader would be able to repeat this incomprehensible and untenable feat. Yet Jerome Kerviel trumped Leeson in 2008 by perpetrating… Read more.
There is a decidedly ominous slant to news reports suggesting that the United States and Europe are now becoming as dependent on China’s cash as they are on Mideast oil. Specifically, that Italy is just the latest country to queue up to sell its sovereignty for an economic bailout. The Italian government is making approaches to… Read more.
I’ve been trying for years, to no avail, to get my feminist friends to see the contradiction inherent in their opposition to beauty pageants. They continually insist that, like prostitution, these pageants degrade women and only reinforce traditional notions of male chauvinism. My more evolved and consistent view is that, like prostitution, beauty pageants reflect… Read more.
I had an interesting debate with some fellow lawyers this afternoon regarding a motorist who successfully argued in a Florida court that his right of “free speech” was violated when a police gave him a $115 ticket for warning fellow motorists of a police speed trap by flashing his headlights. We were all surprised to learn that… Read more.
Much is being made in the media about just-released audiotapes on which former First Lady Jackie Kennedy can be heard oozing moral indignation at MLK – saying, among other things: I just can’t see a picture of Martin Luther King without thinking, you know, that man’s terrible. (Associated Press, September 8, 2011) She also calls him… Read more.
Phew…. Given the way Homeland Security and it’s enabling media outlets whipped the country into a paranoid frenzy last week, you’d think they were reacting to evidence that a long fuse had already been lit that was timed to blow up all of New York City and Washington, DC yesterday. Now, after this phantom fuse… Read more.
Wimbledon has finally decided to follow the politically correct fashion of other Grand Slams. It too will award women players equal pay for unequal work. But surely any proud (and principled) feminist must take exception. After all, to get equal prize money, women should play the best of five sets like men do, or men… Read more.
I applaud NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg for decreeing this week that, henceforth, the area where the twin towers were destroyed shall no longer be called ‘Ground Zero.’ Instead, it shall revert to its original name, The World Trade Center. But I urge him to decree also that, henceforth, the city shall no longer mark this… Read more.
