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I have become so cynical about politics that I’m not the least bit surprised that Republicans forced the (partial) shutdown of the U.S. government yesterday merely to appease their hopelessly misguided, Obama-hating constituents; the welfare of the country be damned. I am not even surprised that a congenital mix of political ignorance and racial prejudice… Read more.
I was bemused when I read this headline today on the Huffington Post. Even more so when I read Bob Woodward pronouncing the following with evident consternation and indignation: Let’s call it what it is, they are trying to blackmail the president and say, ‘Look, we’re going to shutdown the government or default on our… Read more.
The New York Yankees have replaced the Dallas Cowboys as the “America’s Team” people love to hate. Of course, Yankees fans would be reveling in this hate if their team were still playing the way it did between 1996 and 2000, when the Yankees won four World Series championships. Instead, they’ve played like such losers since… Read more.
And the more you buy their cheap, child-labored products, the more their maxim rules…. Read more.
Nobody can blame Jose Manuel Barrasso, president of the European Commission, for gloating on Tuesday’s edition of Charlie Rose as follows: [Despite predictions about disintegration of the EU] all the steps [taken since the global financial crisis of 2008] have been for more integration, more integrated governance… All of the doomsayers were wrong… People want… Read more.
I have always thought of the America’s Cup as a rich (White) man’s hobby that has more in common with social events like Polo matches than sporting events like Baseball games. Except that at least Polo has some redeeming value in this respect – given that, although a majority of the team owners/sponsors are White… Read more.
Ted Turner (aka the mouth of the South) created quite a stir on Monday when he said the following about men in politics at the International Women’s Earth and Climate Summit in New York City: They could do everything else, be president of universities, business leaders, but they just couldn’t serve in any elected position… Read more.
I wrote the following just over a year ago – after a series of incidents where trigger-happy policemen opened fire on a suspect in midtown Manhattan and injured bystanders: Instead of praising these policemen as heroes, Mayor Bloomberg would do more to ensure public safety by requiring all NYC policemen to take remedial courses in target shooting.… Read more.
No doubt you’ve heard by now that the producers of tonight’s telecast of the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards intend to pay special “In-Memoriam” tribute to Cory Monteith of Glee. Except that the Emmys had quite rightly never even nominated him. Yet they are snubbing more deserving actors like Larry Hagman of Dallas and Jack Klugman of The… Read more.
