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Eat more chocolate! Doctor’s orders…?
Saturday, April 7, 2012 at 8:38 AM
Archives for 2012
UPDATE: And the Republican nominee is…
Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 5:09 AM
Short-term memory has become epidemic in every facet (and at every stage) of life in America. This is why political pundits can blithely say something today that completely contradicts what they said just months ago without fear of humiliation. A case in point is the way pundits were falling all over themselves recently trying to convince gullible… Read more.
Baylor Wins NCAA (Women’s) Basketball Championship
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 7:43 AM
Nothing demonstrates how fickle lady luck is quite like allowing three of my picks to make it to the men’s Final Four, only to deny every one of my picks a berth to the women’s Sweet 16. More to the point, though, because I couldn’t care any less who won the men’s championship game on… Read more.
Kentucky Wildcats Win NCAA Basketball Championship
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 8:31 AM
[F]or one who had no allegiance to any of the [68] teams and couldn’t care any less which team wins the national championship, I did a pretty good job of picking winners in my office pool: of the four teams I picked, three (namely, Kentucky, Louisville, and Kansas) made it through to the Sweet 16… Alas,… Read more.
Myanmar: One Small Step for Democracy, One Giant Leap for Aung San Suu Kyi
Monday, April 2, 2012 at 5:20 AM
Her heroic, even if terminally futile, struggle to restore democracy has garnered her remarkable spurts of international attention and acclaim. Most notable in this respect was when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 – after the National League for Democracy party she founded won a landslide general election (in 1990), which the… Read more.
Why Republicans take Obama’s claim that Trayvon could be his son literally…
Saturday, March 31, 2012 at 6:55 AM
Republicans would have you believe that Trayvon was killed trying to mug George Zimmerman. But these are the same folks who would have you believe that President Obama is the one mugging us with rising gas prices. Related commentaries: Vigilante killing of Trayvon Martin Read more.
Another Sign of America’s Lost Cause in Afghanistan
Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 5:23 AM
I have become a veritable Cassandra with my warnings about the folly of America’s involvement in Afghanistan. Instead of wondering why I keep beating this dead horse, however, my only wonder is why more people aren’t doing the same. After all, the killing of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan is even more senseless than the killing… Read more.
Supreme Court takes on Obamacare
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 5:17 AM
Yesterday lawyers for and against Obama’s landmark healthcare reform began three days of arguments before the Supreme Court. What is truly remarkable though is that the arguments the lawyers are proffering in Court are essentially the same as those politicians proffered in Congress when the healthcare bill was being debated two years ago. I have written many commentaries on… Read more.
Obama Nominates Korean-American to Head the World Bank
Monday, March 26, 2012 at 5:29 AM
Hillary has pooh-poohed reports about her heading to the World Bank [WB] with the same conviction with which she has pooh-poohed reports about her running for VP (or president again). But I am convinced that she could not resist the former if it’s handed to her on a silver platter; whereas, given the disappointment of 2008,… Read more.
Warning: we can play that “stand your ground” game too
Sunday, March 25, 2012 at 7:14 AM
Perhaps the only good thing that will come out of this case is that the Florida legislature (with prodding from the Department of Justice) will be compelled to modify or even repeal its stand-your-ground law, which emboldens people to shoot to kill based merely on their subjective fears. Especially since the Sanford police seem to… Read more.