Archives for January 2013
Playboy Hefner Finally Captures His Runaway Bride
Here, in part, is how I expressed unbridled schadenfreude two years ago when 84-year-old Playboy founder Hugh Hefner’s 24-year-old fiancée Crystal Harris left him standing at the altar: Nothing indicates how patently venal his fiancée’s motives were quite like reports that she called off the wedding because Hef refused to guarantee her a weekly allowance… Read more.
Sandy Hook Elementary – Back to Normal?
The lucky kids who survived the shooting massacre in Newtown, Connecticut three weeks ago returned to school yesterday. Not surprisingly, the school district is going out of its way to provide a “normal” learning environment – complete with a new campus seven miles from the old one. Which is why it seemed so farcical, if… Read more.
‘Democrats Rout Republicans’: Avoid Fiscal Cliff (revised)
After a few more weeks of Democrats and Republicans playing their fiscal game of chicken, it would not surprise me if they come up with a plan at the eleventh hour to avoid falling over this cliff. Not least because they themselves created this so-called doomsday scenario—in the spirit of mutually assured (political) destruction—precisely to… Read more.