Archives for November 2007

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The other shoe that finally dropped in the world of sports yesterday was the wholly-anticlimactic announcement that Baseball’s home-run king, Barry bonds, has been indicted. In fact, a federal grand jury in San Francisco has charged him with four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice stemming from his patently false testimony… Read more.

When Gov. Sonny Perdue (pictured here with his wife Mary) led his state in prayer for rain on Tuesday, people around the country reacted with sympathy and ridicule in equal measure. Meanwhile, it hasn’t rained in Georgia for months. And things are getting so parched there that water use is being strictly controlled. In fact,… Read more.

I’m not a fan of his hip-hop music and think even less of his wannabe gansta persona. But I feel genuine sympathy for Kanye West as he grieves over the sudden and incomprehensible death of his beloved mother on Saturday night. She was only 58. Of course, like most people, I knew virtually nothing about… Read more.

I take admittedly perverse delight in the public exasperation European leaders have been expressing lately over the failure of their former colonies in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) to sign adhesive Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). Never mind that these agreements – as drafted – smack of little more than neo-colonial mercantilism. But, notwithstanding… Read more.

NOTE: Today is the Veterans Day holiday, but the official day of remembrance was yesterday, 11/11. Related Articles:Veterans Day 2006 Veterans Day Read more.

Which begs the obvious question: Why not pray for an avenger of Judeo-Christian dogma instead of looking to an infidel like Giuliani to do the Lord’s work? Although, perhaps Robertson is calling upon the “Judeo” part of his Christian faith, which proselytizes the code of Lex Talionis, namely: an eye for an eye, fight fire… Read more.

Most writers depend on residuals from television reruns and DVD sales to survive between full-time jobs. [Carlton Cuse, writer and executive producer of ABC’s “Lost”] Hollywood went dark yesterday after the studios refused to grant writers a more equitable share of revenues from DVD sales and shows viewed over the Internet and mobile phones, which… Read more.

Last Tuesday Pakistan’s Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, issued a ruling which could only be regarded as an untenable challenge to the authority of General Pervaz Musharraf – who appointed himself president in 2002, after seizing power in a military coup in 1999. Because the court ruled that Gen Musharraf had… Read more.

Saudi King Abdullah created quite a furor on the eve of his state visit to Britain this week. Because, to the utter consternation of his hosts, he decreed that the British were largely to blame for the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London two years ago because they failed to heed clear warnings from his government… Read more.