What if Our Opinion of Wright is Wrong?
Like most, my opinion of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, former pastor to Senator Barack Obama, devolved from the outrageous sound bytes played over and over on the news, his bizarre performance at The National Press Club and NAACP Dinner and I wondered if Barack Obama actually had some sort of political death wish embracing this man. […]
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Features
For 33 Years, “Live, from New York…It’s Saturday Night”»
This Saturday Night the curtain falls on Season 33 of a program begun in the Fall of my freshman year at University. NBC’s Saturday Night’s first few episodes were mostly forgettable. The show began on 11 October 1975 at 11:30 pm where for 90-minutes cast members, Chevy Chase, Dan Akroyd, Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman, Jane […]
Hillary’s W in WV – Yawn, Real Story is Red State Mississippi»
338,000 people voted to assign 26 delegates or .6% of total delegates in play and captured the media spotlight for a week as the Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton steel cage match went another breathless round, while reddest of Republican states Mississippi, ignored the personal campaigning of Vice President Dick Cheney as the Democrat Travis Childers won […]
Tragic Texan Time Warp»
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a cult film featuring a song “Let’s Do The Time Warp Again.” The secretive FLDS, a disavowed polygamous sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints founded by Rulon Jeffs and now run by his son Warren (49) from a 1,400 acre (567 hectare) compound in […]
Every Day is Mother’s Day»
This working trip to the USA has had the blessing of the Mom back at headquarters because the UK celebrates Mothering Sunday in March. So I am here wishing my own 77-year old Mom a great day along with my sister visiting from Alexandria, Virginia.
My wonderful wife is today hopefully going to enjoy another spectacular […]
California Nurses Raising the Debate»
The advert headline blared: “if he were anyone else he’d be dead.” He is Dick Cheney, age 67, Vice President of the United States, with a bionic reconstructed heart with built-in defribulator to maintain a regular heartbeat. The Vice President joined the government healthcare program in 2001 when he became a federal employee. Had he […]
Greetings from the Secure Homeland»
What a day. I rushed this morning to post stories before boarding a flight to Boston via Amsterdam this morning. Unplugged for 16-hours it was interesting to step off the airplane to hear a live, disembodied CNN audio feed of an Obama speech about his love for Israel on the PA system in the Passport […]
Business
Top 10 Recent Business Headlines»
10. Newcastle United FC Boss Wins £1.3m on Roulette Wheel Spin (The Telegraph)
Mike Ashley, the billionaire businessman and owner of Newcastle United Football Club, stunned gamblers at an exclusive casino by scooping £1.3 million on a single spin of the roulette wheel.
(Mike almost needed that spin to avoid relegation ending the season just seven points […]
Politics
Full Contact Political Sport»
Would George W. Bush stand for pointed questions on live TV from Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or John McCain if forced weekly to endure a forum such as the UK’s Wednesday noon mosh pit a.k.a. Prime Minister’s Question time? This is a place where every member of the House, in theory, can ask questions of the PM and his government. […]
Innovators
I Hear You Better When You Whisper»
Forget Dr. Doolittle.
Cancel the rental of the Robert Redford movie.
These guys don’t come close to spending a day with a 5’ 3” spark-plug in Southern Wales who spends her days teaching us how to listen to the language of our own soul by helping us to listen to and learn from her four horses.
Meet Helen […]
Reflections
Op-Ed Column of the Day»
Victory Plan for Hillary (click to see full article on nyt.com)
By GAIL COLLINS/Op-Ed Columnist
The New York Times Online
Published: May 15, 2008
Hillary Clinton scored a whopping victory in West Virginia. Trounced Barack Obama, who is consistently described as the inevitable presidential nominee.
Hard to know exactly what to do with this information.
Green
Oil Company Abandons Wind for… More Oil!»
Surprise! Royal Dutch Shell abandoned its 33% stake in the London Array off the coast of Kent, the world’s largest wind harnessing project and at the same time announced it was making a major investment in Canadian Oil exploration.
In an official corporate statement reported originally in The Guardian, Shell said “the decision to sell their […]
Entertainment
Steve Krakauer of MediaBistro.com Interviews SNL Head Writer Seth Myers»
Seven years into his job at one of the “last bastions” of live TV, this funny guy talks business.
SNL has become part of the history of the 2008 presidential primary season, as the show was credited with originally helping Hillary Clinton by pointing out the media’s favoritism of Barack Obama. Then this week, SNL had […]
Living Abroad
A Swinging Saturday Night in a Dutch Country Town»
Lochem, was the town John Denver meant to write about in his lyric.
Instead, having never been there, (unlike modern dance creator Isadora Duncan and R&B legend Arthur “Sweet Soul Music” Conley who both lived near this town) he picked on a slice of middle-America when writing “Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio is like being nowhere […]
Book Reviews
“Sicko” by Michael Moore on DVD»
Sicko by Academy Award Winning documentary film-maker Michael Moore, is a brilliant look at the broken US Healthcare industry. While many countries have adopted a health system to help care for its population, the USA has 1/6th of its population suffering from no insurance coverage and those with insurance through Health Maintenance Organisations or HMO’s are often denied […]
