9/11: America’s psychological black hole
Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 7:22 AM
Archives for September 2011
Another 9/11 terror alert
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 5:48 PM
If you didn’t know better, you’d think the terror alert that has New York City and Washington, DC in virtual lockdown right now is the first there’s been since 9/11. In fact, those alerts have been spooking us with annoying regularity ever since – forcing us to react like puppets on al-Qaeda’s strings to one… Read more.
Obama’s speech on his new Jobs Bill
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 5:15 AM
Obama proved once again that he’s the best public speaker to grace this planet since MLK. It’s just too bad that all of his speeches amount to little more than hot air these days given the way ideologically committed do-nothing Republicans in Congress have been able to frustrate all of his plans to revive the U.S. economy.… Read more.
And the Republican nominee is…
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 5:07 AM
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 with a… Read more.
‘The Help’
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 10:43 AM
Am I the only one who finds it discouraging that the most celebrated relationships between black and white women in film are those which feature the former working as a domestic servant for the latter? Here we are, 72 years since Gone with the Wind first celebrated this hardly “ennobling” relationship; yet people (mostly misguided,… Read more.
Texas is burning
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 5:26 AM
It never ceases to amuse me how doomsayers invariably point to clusters of natural disasters (like the one we’re experiencing this year) as signs either of the biblical end times or, more ominous, of the self-fulfilling prophecies of global-warming alarmists coming true. For the truth of the matter is that since time immemorial Mother Nature has… Read more.
Rethinking no-fault divorce
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 5:29 AM
A sexual relationship between husband and wife is the expression of affection they have for each other… By getting married, couples agree to sharing their life and this clearly implies they will have sex with each other. (Sunday Telegraph, September 5, 2011) This is the unassailable reasoning a French judge proffered in deciding a rather… Read more.
Happy Labor Day … if you’re lucky
Monday, September 5, 2011 at 6:27 AM
Ethnic Cleansing in Libya
Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 8:27 PM
NATO countries bombed Serbia in large measure because the Serbs were ethnically cleansing Muslims from “their” country. Therefore, the unconscionable and untenable irony cannot be lost on NATO leaders that they are now aiding and abetting Libyan rebels who are ethnically cleansing black Africans from their country. Every day these rebels are betraying hints that… Read more.
A tweet: U.S. Open
Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 12:25 PM
How sad that Sjogren’s syndrome – an autoimmune disease that causes debilitating joint pain, swelling, numbness and fatigue – forced Venus to withdraw from this tournament (and may force her to retire from the sport). Lil’ sis Serena should do the family proud though – she seems a lock to win the title. You’d think someone on… Read more.