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The University of Connecticut (UConn) made news on Wednesday by banning sexual relationships between students and faculty. Here’s the official reason the university gave for this new policy: The power difference between faculty and staff as compared to students means that any romantic relationship between a faculty or staff member and a student is potentially… Read more.
The Heisman Trophy is easily the most coveted award in college sports. Indeed, it is so respected and revered among Football players that I suspect many of them would rather have a Heisman Trophy in their home than a Super Bowl ring on their finger. The Heisman is awarded annually to: … the outstanding college… Read more.
[NOTE: Yesterday the United States ordered the evacuation of embassy personnel in Yemen and urged all Americans living there to leave. Never mind that, just as it insists on referring to the coup in Egypt as something Orwellian like an army-assisted move to re-try democracy, the Obama Administration is referring to this evacuation as a… Read more.
After months of suspense, Major League Baseball finally announced yesterday that Alex Rodriquez (aka A-Rod) is headlining a list of 13 players being suspended for violating the league’s drug policy. They were all ensnared by their illicit association with Biogenesis – a steroids lab in Miami masquerading as an anti-aging clinic. All of the players… Read more.
U.S. politicians and security analysts have been all over TV in recent days warning about “specific, credible and imminent attacks” al-Qaeda operatives are planning to launch against U.S. interests … worldwide. Which compels one to wonder how this warning would have been designated according to the government’s ill-fated, soon-discarded color-coded threat level advisory system…. But… Read more.
Truth be told, the only thing newsworthy about Wednesday’s general elections in Zimbabwe is how peaceful they were. It certainly came as no surprise when the state Election Commission announced today that President Robert Mugabe was re-elected with 61 percent of the popular vote over Opposition Leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who garnered only 33. No less… Read more.
If these politicians were not lead vocals in a chorus of moral crusaders, I would not give their sexual escapades a moment’s thought. For the unadulterated pleasure of afflicting these hypocrites, however, I don’t even mind being bedfellows with a publicity-seeking hustler like Larry Flynt. (“DC Madam outs Sen. David Vitter as a faithful ‘John,’… Read more.
I took a lot of flak two years ago when I asserted my reasonable suspicion that there was a conspiracy among officials at Penn State, including revered Football Coach Joe Paterno, to cover-up for serial rapist Jerry Sandusky. Recall that Sandusky was the long-time Paterno assistant who these officials knew, or should have known, had… Read more.
Given the ubiquity of porn and the liberties people take on social networks, the notion that some things are too private to share seems as old-fashioned as bloomers. But what is truly novel is that grownups are competing with teenagers to offend all notions of public decency and discretion in this respect. Imagine what this portends… Read more.
Given media reports on his arrest three years ago, you’d think Army Pfc. Bradley Manning (25) posed a far greater threat to U.S. national security than Osama bin Laden. Recall that the government charged Manning with all manner of crimes, including the treasonous “aiding the enemy” for handing over hundreds of thousands of classified documents… Read more.
