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Perhaps it was a good omen (or just a fortuitous opportunity to display the independent spirit of 1776 that could not be missed) that – after 2 aborted attempts – the Space Shuttle Discovery finally blasted off yesterday – on Independence Day. As I understand it, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sent these… Read more.
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In this previous article (dated June 25), I lauded the heroic showing of my sentimental pick in this year’s World Cup, Trinidad and Tobago (T and T), before they were eliminated by quadrennial favorite England. I also reveled with undisguised schadenfreude, however, over the (superpower) U.S. being kicked out of contention by (Third World /… Read more.
Alas, more bad news for a few of my colleagues and their fellow smokers who stand in formation and puff gauntlets of toxic fumes in the front of office buildings all over America. Because, now that the U.S. Surgeon General has declared second-hand smoke an “alarming public health hazard”, one can be sure swift measures… Read more.
To hear President Bush and members of his Administration wailing indignantly this week because the New York Times reported on the U.S. (war-on-terror) strategy of tracking terrorists through bank records, one would have thought its reporters burglarized the White House war room and stole the information that appeared in the report. But nothing could be… Read more.
Yesterday, after reading newspaper headlines and hearing TV sound bites about the notorious Gitmo case, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, one might have thought the U.S. Supreme Court had decided that President George W. Bush was himself a war criminal. But after reading the decision (and all the news deemed fit to print about it), I realized… Read more.
On Wednesday, Caribbean Net News reported that Grenada and Dominica are the latest Caribbean countries to sign up for PetroCaribe. That, of course, is the energy/economic pact Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is touting as a “Bolivarian Alternative” to the Free Trade of the Americas (FTAA). If one buys Chávez’s sales pitch, PetroCaribe promises to: …contribute… Read more.
Just months ago, I published this article heralding the peace agreement brokered by the United States between the Israelis and Palestinians as “one giant leap for peace in the Middle East.” But anyone reading news reports coming out of that region today can be forgiven for asserting now that that agreement merely promised comfort to… Read more.
When Warren Buffet, the world’s second richest man, announced his charitable gift on Monday, even more shocking than the amount involved ($31 billion) was the fact that the recipient was Bill Gates, the world’s richest man. And, I suspect I was not alone in wondering:Why not his children? He has 3: Susan, Howard, and Peter.… Read more.
A few weeks ago, when the whole world was singing the praises of Angelina Jolie – for condescending to give birth to her child in Namibia, I published this article entitled To Jolie and Pitt – a child is born…to save Namibia? As the title suggests, mine was a discordant voice of unmitigated apostasy (towards… Read more.
