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Well, based on the latest episode of As the Elysée Turns, it may be that I presumed too much about the sophistication of the characters involved in this political ménage a trois. For the French media were replete with reports last week about the “blind jealousy” that compelled Valérie to take to Twitter – just days… Read more.
I am still trying to figure out what contribution to mankind that celebrated rover is making by showing us in HD what we already know; namely, that Mars is an uninhabitable mass of molten rock and red sand. This is why I am so hard-pressed to figure out why anyone would regard Felix Baumgartner’s record-setting… Read more.
Buzz Bissinger is the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestselling book Friday Night Lights. He distinguished himself more recently by damning – in print and on TV – the way Penn State University conspired to cover up the predatory, pedophile abuses of former assistant Football coach Jerry Sandusky. More to the point, Bissinger… Read more.
Well, I suppose if those inscrutable Norwegians can award this once-distinguished award to Barack Obama for saying a lot but doing nothing to promote world peace, then why not award it to the EU for saying and doing just a little more. Related commentaries: Obama Nobel… Read more.
It pains me to concede today that the evidence is indeed overwhelming that Lance fueled his way to cycling glory on a cocktail of PEDs that make those he took to treat his cancer seem like mere aspirin… The real tragedy here is not Lance falling from grace, but the disillusionment this is bound to… Read more.
Since March 23, 2005, in a commentary titled Ecuador’s Indigenous People Fight to Reclaim Ancestral Land, I’ve been commenting on the David v. Goliath quest by Amazonian Indians to get oil giant Chevron to pay for the damage its exploration for oil did to their rainforest. Here in part is how I framed the issue… Read more.
I usually avoid the goings-on in the Twitterverse like the plague. But my civic duty compels me to chime in on the backlash Clueless actress Stacey Dash is suffering for publishing the following tweet on October 7: Vote for Romney. The only choice for your future. Frankly, the way she is being pilloried (by Black,… Read more.
Without exception, pre-election reports in the United Sates gave the impression that 40-year-old challenger Henrique Capriles was poised to dethrone Hugo Chávez on Sunday as president of Venezuela. But I knew better; not least because here, in part, is what I wrote six years ago after Chávez fended off the challenge of Manuel Rosales –… Read more.
