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Last night I was declaiming on the artistic (as opposed to the commercial) merits of the latest Pink Floyd album, The Endless River, when a friend began rhapsodizing about the Rolling Stones and their pouty-lipped leader, Mick Jagger. The uncultured gall; I was not pleased. As much as I admire the Stones’ longevity, I’m no… Read more.
Police Officer Darren Wilson — the suburban St. Louis patrolman who killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown in early August – will not face criminal charges in the controversial shooting death, a grand jury has decided. Wilson, who is white, became a national figure after he shot the black 18-year-old multiple times in broad daylight on… Read more.
Nothing signaled the end of Robert Griffin III’s ill-fated stint as Washington’s starting quarterback quite like Dan Wetzel, the premier analyst for Yahoo Sports, writing a column on Wednesday under the headline, “RG3’s fall from grace as stunning as his meteoric rise to stardom.” Of course, given that Washington fans were already not only booing… Read more.
[NOTE: In light of the way so much news this weekend focused on preparations for, as well as flare ups in anticipation of, this decision, I’ve decided to reprise this commentary, which I originally published on Thursday, November 20, at 5:18 a.m.] __________________ Ferguson has become a theatre of the absurd – complete with the-sky-is-falling reporters doing more… Read more.
No doubt the September kidnapping and alleged murder of 43 students in Iguala, Mexico, was a national tragedy. A tragedy the government compounded last week when it announced the arrest of a local mayor and his wife – who allegedly masterminded the kidnappings, as well as that of several local gang members – who allegedly… Read more.
MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber is being publicly excommunicated and excoriated for committing what constitutes a cardinal sin in Washington these days: telling the unvarnished truth. And, miraculously, his sin has inspired Democrats and Republicans to unite in their joint (and several) condemnation of him. For the uninitiated, Gruber was as much the architect of Barack… Read more.
Last February, Bill Cosby – ‘America’s favorite TV Dad’ (and faithful husband) – escaped prison when prosecutors investigating allegations of sexual assault concluded that they did not have sufficient evidence to convict him, beyond a reasonable doubt, at trial. But no one thought that was the end of the story… Lawyers for his accuser filed motion… Read more.
It speaks volumes about the media’s amoral code of conduct that they transitioned a few days ago, with nary a pause, from reporting on the Rosetta spacecraft landing on Comet 67P, to broadcasting the latest recording from the Daesh/ISIS leader calling his foot soldiers to arms. They punctuated the latter today with lurid wall-to-wall coverage… Read more.
I am convinced that all of the preaching about global warming is just hot air. Of course the planet is getting warmer (although only by a sweltering 1°F every 100 years … ouch?). Moreover, I have no doubt that humans (especially Americans) are marginally to blame. But I also have no doubt that this warming… Read more.
