Dear readers, although I don’t spend a lot of time watching television or even listening to the radio, I must say that I have noticed an upsurge of commercials that are, for want of a better word, idiotic. Consider, if you will, the recent ads for Con Edison. “Con Edison”, as I’m sure you know, is short for Consolidated Edison,
The recent CIA report accusing Russian hackers of working to undermine the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, has drawn some “push back” from Mr. Trump and the RNC. This prompted me to take a look back at the record of that august agency. After a bit of research, it’s kind of embarrassing to say this, but it really does appear that
It’s a common site in many cities. You see it often in street vendors. You see it in roadside trucks offering lunch. You see it in take out restaurants. You see in in delicatessens. You see it, even, in lunch places and restaurants. In all of these establishments you sometimes see banners advertising “Halal” food. Halal food carts. Halal vendors.
It appears that great anguish has befallen America’s academia! Howls (sorry Allen Ginsburg) have been heard from those lofty ivory towers! Shock and awe echo through the halls of higher learning! America’s professors are nonplused! Hampshire College brought their American flags to half mast! Later they took them down entirely! Yale professors made their scheduled examinations OPTIONAL, presumably because their
There are people that, either affectionately or derisively, regard politics as a sort of game. After all, there are players. There are winners and losers. There’s strategy. There’s gamesmanship. There are rules. Sometimes there are cheats. There are scripts. There’s an element of chance. There are MANY things that make politics look, on first blush, like a contest or a
The recent death of poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen caused a twinge of sadness in my heart. Gone was the writer of beautiful songs like Suzanne and the Sisters of Mercy and many many others. Gone was another talented member of my generation, taking all of that talent with him. Gone was a man who embraced religion and spirituality with
Abdul Razak Ali Artan (the Ohio State University attacker) is now safely ensconced in Paradise. Although, as Attorney General Loretta Lynch famously said: “we may never know his motives” I think it’s quite clear that he was a warrior for Allah. Another jihadi that’s made his way to the Promised Land. (I wonder what number virgin he’s up to so
>As hard as it is to comprehend, our cerebrally challenged news commentators are at it again. The media coverage of the jihad attack yesterday at Ohio State University was couched in the laughably soft language of uncertainty and caution. An Arabic man of Somali ancestry drove a vehicle into a crowd of defenseless college students and then jumped out and
It appears that the FBI has done the right thing at last. They have reopened the investigation into the vast landscape of Clinton criminality. This step, following a prior decision recommending NO prosecution for Mrs. Clinton’s laundry list of illegal activities, is extremely unusual and one can only wonder what factors are in play. Is it that recent emails (discovered,
>Well, it looks like we need to add “hypocrite” to the list of unflattering labels that pertain to Mrs. Hillary Clinton. In addition to “lier” (“We landed taking gunfire”, “no confidential emails were ever received or sent), “criminal” (obstruction of justice by deleting 33,000 emails under subpoena), (fraud with White Water Development), (bribery vis-a-vis Russian Uranium Processing deal and others),