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I’ve read enough about Gabriel García Márquez (Gabo) to know that he was that rare writer who was as critically acclaimed as he was commercially successful. That he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 and enjoyed J.K. Rowling-like book sales attest to this. Yet how fitting in this age of Twitter that most… Read more.
Female teachers having sex with students has become rampant. This week, several of them entered this rogues’ gallery. Female teachers having sex with students To be fair, these sex crimes are, on balance, victimless. And female teachers as sexual predators are, on balance, harmless. In fact, the only wonder for me is why 99.9 percent… Read more.
Michael Phelps made quite a show of declaring his intent to retire after the 2012 London Olympics. Here, for example, is a definitive exchange he had with Anderson Cooper on the May 8, 2012 edition of 60 Minutes, the most widely watched news program in the United States: Cooper: What happens if your mom, you… Read more.
Republicans are not going to like the New Yorker’s latest cover. The illustration nods to Obamacare’s recent victory, and shows President Obama feeding medicine to a little boy… Artist Barry Blitt told the magazine ‘I enjoyed drawing Ted Cruz, John Boehner, and Michele Bachmann as petulant children — and I especially wanted to draw an… Read more.
Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that he has undergone a successful microdiscectomy for a pinched nerve that has been hurting him for several months… The procedure was successful, but Woods will be unable to play in the Masters Tournament, instead requiring rest and rehabilitation for the next several weeks… The goal is for Tiger to resume… Read more.
‘Biker chic: Gisele Bundchen channelled 1970s New York by wearing a leather jacket and, big boots and dark shades in the city today’ Read more.
The CBS Television Network today announced that Stephen Colbert, the host, writer and executive producer of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Colbert Report, will succeed David Letterman as the host of THE LATE SHOW, effective when Mr. Letterman retires from the broadcast. (CBS, April 10, 2014) Folks, Steven Colbert hosting THE LATE SHOW as… Read more.
I don’t know why the media always reward these psychopaths by giving them the fame they covet; that is, by plastering their pathetic mugs all over television and reporting pop psychology about why and how they did their dastardly deeds. You’d think that – given the record of these psychotic and vainglorious episodes since Columbine –… Read more.
I feel obliged to establish my standing for what follows by declaring up front that I am, and have always been, a proud liberal. And I have the ideological scars to show for it. Mozilla CEO The term “liberal jihadists” is clearly oxymoronic. Yet it fairly describes the thought police who forced Mozilla’s co-founder and… Read more.
