If you're reading my site right now, I'm undergoing a little redesign. It's late at night and I'm working the bugs out. Please feel free to comment about readablity, etc. *UPDATE* OK, it's been about 2 hours. If you've visited in the interim, you've seen a lot of weird stuff. The design still isn't quite […]
Money-grubbing landlord Denise M. Lyman of New York should be shunned by all New Yorkers. In the aftermath of Sept. 11, Americans of all stripes came together and gave from their pocketbooks. Gave of their time. Gave of their tears. Lyman has decided to take. (CBS)-(NEW YORK)-A New York City landlord is demanding more than […]
Economist Paul Krugman takes on fire policy in his latest diatribe against Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. Oops...my mistake. Krugman's attacking Bush, for wanting exactly the same thing for the rest of the fire-ravaged West that Daschle arranged for South Dakota. Thinning of the forests in an effort to minimize the effects of forest fires. […]
I'm still boycotting Chinese-made products, and this article demonstrates some of the reasons why. The police officer was on the run. Like others in the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, Fang Lihong had been fired, imprisoned and forced to attend months of intense "deprogramming" classes. Unlike most, he was then committed to a psychiatric hospital […]
Several weeks ago I created a little bit of a firestorm by suggesting that the United States should think twice about granting student or tourist visas to people from Arab countries in the wake of Sept. 11. However, in contrast to the way I think United States policy should be vis a vis Islamists and […]
The New York Times has an article on the emergence of DVDs in the past five years. I got my DVD player a little over 2 1/2 years ago (DON'T BUY RCA) for one simple reason -- widescreen. I've hated for years that filmmakers were forced, for some bizarre reason, to produce the "pan & […]
Texas Rangers' $252 million man, Alex Rodriguez, was quoted earlier in the week as saying that he would return 30-40 percent of his exorbitant salary if it would help the current situation in baseball. Well, after further review (scroll to bottom of story), Rodriguez has reconsidered. At Yankee Stadium, Texas shortstop Alex Rodriguez backtracked from […]
MSNBC's Eric Alterman may be suffering from undiagnosed paranoia along with some latent racism. If you haven't read the post immediately below this one on outgoing Rep. Cynthia McKinney (Nutcase-Ga.), then read it now and then come back up here. Alterman, it should come as only a mild surprise, agrees with the Texas representative that […]
A couple years back CBS (I think) put on a short-lived remake of the classic "All in the Family" substituting a black family in the cast. The show didn't fly, but I do remember one of the lines the lead character uttered in the promos. The new version of Rob "Meathead" Reiner accused the new […]
The mayor of a town in France has barred residents from dying because the town cemetery is full. Gil Bernardi, mayor of Le Lavandou on the coast 25 km (15 miles) west of Saint Tropez, introduced the ban after a court rejected his plans to build a cemetery in a tranquil setting by the sea. […]