What Would Jackie Chan Do?
I always liked Jackie Chan, who has practiced martial arts since his early childhood, and chose a sweet and comic screen persona that contrasts with his formidable athletic skills. He doesn’t come across as a bully, or a man who confuses his movie roles with his real life. Steven Seagal is another story… An Arizona [...]
Terrorizing Parents
I can only read the awful story about the murder of eight-year-old Leibby Kletzky with the most profound sympathy for his family and community. We try so hard to protect our children without stifling their desire for independence– in fact they have to be allowed to go out into the world if they are to [...]
Unregulated Loaded Gun
Ignorance can be remedied, but there’s no cure for stupidity. This is really scary… A freshman Arizona state Senator may be in need of some gun safety lessons. Richard Ruelas, a reporter for The Arizona Republic, found himself staring down the barrel of Republican state Sen. Lori Klein’s raspberry-pink firearm during a recent interview at [...]
Cuts Are Taxes
Yesterday I sat in my hot car with the radio on listening to the President’s speech and press conference on the pending debt limit. I agree with some of the President’s critics that Social Security and Medicare have to be protected. There are too many people who want to raid these programs for short-term gain. [...]
Betty Ford
Betty Ford has died, a long-term survivor of breast cancer and outspoken advocate for people with addiction. She was a person in her own right when political handlers would have liked a demure helpmate to her husband. But Gerald and Betty seemed to truly love each other. She wasn’t his shadow, or there just for [...]
Reasonable Doubt
The new information from today’s New York Times (thanks, Observer for the comment) reveals associations and possibly criminal activity in the victim’s past. Living a life that makes you need to stay away from the law and under the radar does not make you less vulnerable to crime, including rape. But the standard for conviction [...]
Agent Orange
From Yahoo News… HANOI, Vietnam – Vietnam on Friday started the first phase of a joint plan with former enemy the United States to clean up environmental damage leftover from the chemical defoliant Agent Orange, a lasting legacy from the Vietnam War. The work concentrates on a former U.S. military base in central Vietnam where [...]
Do You Know Who I Am?
A reporter interviewed the neighbors and friends of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s victim and paints a picture of a quiet, religious woman whose social network was the French African community in Harlem, NYC. Via Worldcrunch from Le Figaro… By Renaud Girard LE FIGARO/ Worldcrunch NEW YORK – The alleged sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the now [...]
Storm Damage
Our good friend Sekanblogger brings us word from Joplin, Missouri, in the wake of the tornado that devastated the town on Sunday. Yesterday, I took off from my morning job and the wife, younger daughter, her friend and I all went to Joplin and evacuated my two grandkids. Taking two vehicles, we picked up the [...]
One Conspiracy Theory Debunked
Standard question in victim-blaming is ‘what was she doing there alone?’ It’s made me kind of crazy to see that applied to a maid whose job it is to go into rooms and clean them. When I first heard this awful crime story– and my sense is that it’s a crime that happens to be [...]
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