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Actor/director Judd Apatow and comedian Hannibal Buress made denouncing Bill Cosby, for his sexual predations, a cause celebre this year. But my commentaries — from “Cosby Escapes Sexual Harassment Charges,” February 25, 2005, to “Bill Cosby’s (all too Belated) Fall from Grace,” November 18, 2014 — attest that I’ve been denouncing him for years. A judge has now… Read more.
First Jameis, now De’Andre: The State Attorney’s Office released surveillance video today of Florida State University [FSU] quarterback De’Andre Johnson punching a woman at a bar last month. State Attorney Willie Meggs said he decided to charge Johnson, 19, with misdemeanor battery after viewing the footage from the West Tennessee Street bar Yiannis on June… Read more.
Truth be told, my feelings of mercy are such that – after the United States scored four improbable goals in the first sixteen minutes of this match – I switched to The Forsyte Saga on PBS. Not to mention that I picked Cameroon to win. For the first time since 1999, the FIFA Women’s World… Read more.
The people of Greece have presented the European Union with the greatest political crisis in its history after voters decisively rejected years of further austerity and effectively challenged Brussels to throw a member state into the economic abyss. The Syriza-led government in Athens celebrated what it called a victory of democracy over economic ‘terrorism’, as… Read more.
Giving whole new meaning to “open wide … and swallow, baby”…. Read more.
Bree Newsome, the woman who climbed a flagpole and removed a Confederate flag from the South Carolina Capitol, said she wanted to help America reconcile with its racist past. Newsome, 30, was arrested Saturday after using a harness to climb up the Columbia grounds 30-foot flagpole as officers yelled for her to come down. She was handcuffed… Read more.
‘In case you haven’t noticed, there are a lot of people here,’ Bernie Sanders said a bit awed as he took the stage in front of nearly 10,000 in a coliseum here. Sanders has been attracting outsize crowds wherever he takes his unlikely presidential campaign: Five thousand came out for his kickoff rally in his… Read more.
Reports are that Phil Mickelson consorts with high-stakes bookies. Remember the breaking news that Tiger Woods cavorts with high-priced prostitutes? Well, this news about Mickelson is far more shocking. Phil Mickelson gambling like Tiger Woods cheating Nearly $3 million transferred from golfer Phil Mickelson to an intermediary was part of ‘an illegal gambling operation which… Read more.
NBC has cut ties with business mogul Donald Trump, whose show The Apprentice has aired on the network since 2004, over Trump’s recent derogatory statements about immigrants. According to a statement, the network is ‘ending its business relationship’ with Trump, noting the annual Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants and The Apprentice will no longer… Read more.
