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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.
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.
