I was pleased this afternoon when a New York jury found Isiah Thomas, former NBA all-star and current coach of the New York Knicks, guilty of making unwanted sexual advances and verbally assaulting Knicks team executive Anucha Browne Sanders. And, in a truly devastating rebuke, the jury awarded Sanders $11.6 million in damages instead of… Read more.
UPDATE on my favorite ex-communists: the Ukrainians
In 2005, the U.S. Congress hailed Viktor Yushchenko, the first democratically-elected president of Ukraine, as the George Washington of his country. However, no American politician could have anticipated the obsession fractious Ukrainians evidently developed for elections after their split from the former Soviet Union. After all, Sunday’s national poll was the third in three years,… Read more.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks…?
The career of most Supreme Court justices is distinguished by the precedent-setting decisions they write. But that of Justice Clarence Thomas will undoubtedly be distinguished by the dark, silent (Zombie-like) shadow he casts over the court’s proceedings. Truth be told, however, no one could have expected Thomas to excel as a jurist; not even George… Read more.
Whoop-di-do! UN finally intervenes in Myanmar (Burma)…
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A tale of two inquests: Daniel in The Bahamas, Diana & Dodi in the UK
US forces let bin Laden “slip away” again…?!
Throughout the 2004 presidential campaign, Senator John Kerry tried his damnedest to expose the fallacy of President Bush’s war-on-terror by repeatedly citing a CIA field commander’s claim that, in December 2001, US forces had Osama bin Laden cornered in a cave in the mountains of Tora Bora, Afghanistan (and even had him in their sights),… Read more.
Leaders Blow Hot Air at UN General Assembly. Meanwhile, Over in Myanmar…
Yesterday, President George W Bush of the United States and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran joined the queue of world leaders delivering canned speeches before the Annual Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. None of them said anything of any consequence (Do they ever?). But the dirty UN secret is that… Read more.
UPDATE: Ahmadinejad unbowed under the bludgeoning of pedestrian insults at Columbia
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has just delivered an esoteric dissertation on the history of science and the categorical imperatives of reason – according to his doctrinaire religious perspective. But I’m sure the only thing that stirred interest amongst his wary audience was the 5-minute flourish at the end of his lecture, during which he defended… Read more.
Ahmadinejad playing Americans like a violin
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have tipped his hand unwittingly during his interview on 60 Minutes last night. Because he manifested a classic case of projection when he ascribed to President George W Bush the intent to use the threat of attack as psychological warfare against his people. One wonders, after all, what his repeated… Read more.
He Lives! Rumors of Castro’s death prove greatly exaggerated
Nothing vindicates Michael Moore’s hagiography of Cuba’s healthcare system (ie, the one for party officials and foreigners only) quite like the fact that Cuban doctors have managed to keep a “terminally ill and dying” Fidel Castro alive for over a year…. It is debatable, however, whether this fact is more galling to partisan critics of… Read more.