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Technology’s Commandments … (according to Apple) Thou shall buy a Mac Thou shall buy an iPod Thou shall buy an iPhone Thou shall buy an iPad… Somehow I’m managing to get by without obeying any of them. Read more.
In this day and age when being famous for being famous is a consummation so devoutly to be wished, it is probably hard to imagine anyone becoming famous for not wanting to be famous. But this latter phenomenon, in a nutshell, can serve as an epitaph for J.D. Salinger. His ironic, if not iconic, fame… Read more.
As speeches go, it was vintage Obama: hopeful, skillfully drafted, brilliantly delivered (often with a disarming charm), and chuck full of soaring rhetoric. More importantly, though, he demonstrated why, despite his critics, he’s still America’s (and the world’s) best HOPE for leadership in this age of economic and political transformation. In fact, I’m sure the inside-Washington… Read more.
This alleged crime occurred on a small island Copperfield bought from the Bahamian government last year; which he has magically transformed into a bohemian paradise called Musha Cay… One can certainly understand why this woman probably assumed that he was immune to criminal charges there, and why he probably presumes that what Copperfield wants on… Read more.
The same pundits who, just a year ago, were propagating the notion Obama’s historic election signaled the end of the Republican Party as a viable force in American politics. Now they would have you believe that the Brown’s upset election signals the end of the Democratic Party…. [Election of Scott Brown: sound and fury signifying… Read more.
I had mixed emotions watching the NFC game. Because on the one hand, I wanted the Packers to win to further vindicate the decision of their elderly quarterback, 38-year-old Brett Favre, to play this season. Especially since virtually every sports writer said his best days were way behind him, and that there was no way… Read more.
NOTE: For my update on Haiti at Caribbean Net News click here Read more.
The only fair and equitable way to deal with obese passengers is to require them to purchase two seats – the second one perhaps at half price. [Bar obese passengers from flying? TIJ, September 11, 2009] Air France has become the first airline to take up this suggestion for dealing with obese passengers. The airline… Read more.
The Late Shift is a dramatization of the behind-the-scenes machinations that led to Jay Leno instead David Letterman taking over The Tonight Show in 1992; notwithstanding that Johnny Carson clearly wanted Letterman to succeed him. After watching this movie in 1996, I became convinced that far too much of Leno’s public persona as “America’s male sweetheart” is as phony… Read more.
Tonight, Democrat Martha Coakley suffered a stunning defeat by Republican Scott Brown in a special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by the late Sen Edward Kennedy. Stunning, of course, because Massachusetts is a heavily Democratic state that Obama won by 26 points over John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. And, despite the well-documented shortcomings… Read more.
