Archives for February 2007

It must be delightfully therapeutic for conservatives – still recovering from their political “thumpin” last November – to see liberals cannibalize each other in the press. Recall last week how we were treated to an absurdly-premature cat fight between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama over the tongue lashing Democratic kingmaker David Geffen gave the Clintons… Read more.

I am a secular humanist who places great faith in the findings of scientific enquiries into the origins and nature of all things. Therefore, when religious zealots repackaged the Adam and Eve creation story and began proselytizing it as an “Intelligent Design” worthy of refuting Darwin’s scientific findings on The Origin of Species (i.e., the… Read more.

I have little regard for preening, pampered poseurs showing-off their borrowed frocks and bling-bling as a prelude to a three-hour program – only six minutes of which anyone cares about (i.e. the time it takes to present Oscars for best supporting actor and actress, best actor and actress, best director and best picture). And, remarkably… Read more.

I really enjoy cinema. And I appreciate the attention the Oscars often give to good but relatively unseen films like Babel. Of course, with all due respect to critics and members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Academy), how much a film makes, not whether the Academy awards it an Oscar,… Read more.

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Yesterday, in a blabbering, blubbering and bloviating ruling, the Judge in the Anna Nicole burial farce ordered his “friend of the court” to supervise the return of her body to The Bahamas to be buried next to her son (who died from a drug overdose just three days after the birth of her daughter last… Read more.

Nothing has distinguished Sen Barack Obama’s nascent presidential campaign quite like the rush of Hollywood players – who supported Bill Clinton in two elections – enlisting to help Obama defeat Hillary. And no one has unnerved the Clintons more with his defection than entertainment mogul David Geffen (center) – the man credited with raising over… Read more.

Many people around the world are familiar with the persistent pleadings by black Americans for the U.S. Congress to apologize and pay reparations to them for slavery, which ended almost 150 years ago. In fact their pleadings have even inspired political leaders in the Caribbean to file similar claims with the UK Parliament. But I… Read more.

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