First it was his white grandmother. Then it was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Tonight, Sen. Barack Obama held a press converence and the threw Trinity United Church of Christ under the bus too. (As an aside, if you played the "uhhh" = 1 drink game, you'd be sauced in less than 2 minutes.) The straw […]
It's amazing what really smart people can accomplish when they put their minds to it. Appearing at the All Things D conference, inventor Dean Kaman shows off the replacement arm he is developing primarily for troops who have been wounded in the war on terrorism. There's a touching moment about half-way through where Kamen shows […]
Harvey Korman, one of America's greatest funnymen, died today at 81. The world is a less funny place now.
A bunch of environmentalists are on a cruise to see the dwindling artic sea ice and drowning polar bears. Unfortunately, there's a problem. Their ship, one of the world's premier icebreakers, got stuck for a week in rapidly advancing sea ice. What irony. I am a passenger on one of the most powerful icebreakers in […]
They just don't do it well. Two suicide blasts strike Afghanistan, one dead
This report in today's Union-Tribune has me scratching my head. The campaign mailer against Superior Court Judge Jan Goldsmith shows a woman holding a coat hanger – a symbol of illegal abortions – and a sign reading: “Never Again.” What Goldsmith can't figure out is, what it has to do with his campaign for city […]
Philip Bobbitt, professor at law at Columbia University and the University of Texas School of law who served on the National Security Council for Presidents Clinton and Carter, appeared last week on the Dennis Prager radio show to pitch his book Terror and Consent Surprisingly, he sounds a lot like a dying breed -- the […]
The big news last week on the GOP side was the discovery of a years old video of San Antonio megachurch Pastor John Hagee attempting to explain the Holocaust. Hagee said: “ 'And they the hunters should hunt them,' that will be the Jews. 'From every mountain and from every hill and from out of […]
Rebecca Walker, daughter of "The Color Purple" author Alice Walker, reveals that her mother was far more interested in her career and philosophy than she was in her own daughter. My early childhood was very happy although my parents were terribly busy, encouraging me to grow up fast. I was only one when I was […]
Global warming has hit Jupiter. It's big red spot has now turned into three. Of course, it couldn't be a result of the Sun. Nope, must be those Saturn SUVs.