Year: 2012

Who would have ever thought that: a single mother of 14 would be reduced to this? Come to think of it, just about everybody. Nadya Suleman, better known as “Octomom,” upset many Americans with the announcement that she had decided to go on welfare back in April. The mother of fourteen, eight of whom she gave […]

Just yesterday it seemed like Greece was the Western European nation going down the tubes and, of course, it still is. However,: these scenes from Spain seem awfully familiar, don’t they?? Thousands of jobless Spaniards marched through Madrid Saturday in the latest angry demonstrations against economic crisis cuts, as fears rose for the country’s financial stability. […]

Is there anyone on the Left who actually cares about the law anymore or is the Left fine with a President asserting dictatorial powers as long as he’s a liberal? Judging by this: column at the Huffington Post: by Robert David Jaffee, it’s the latter. President Obama has said that he would rather be a good one-term […]

I would venture to guess that the folks filing in to see the latest Batman installment in Aurora, Colorado last Thursday evening didn’t figure on over 70 of them getting shot before the credits rolled. The last count I received before filing this column was 12 dead and 59 wounded. As the news starting pouring […]

This is a tale of two cities. No, not Dickens’ phlegmatic London and passionate Paris. Nor the two neighborhoods Charles Murray contrasted in his recent bestseller “Coming Apart” — prosperous but isolated Belmont (actually, Mitt Romney’s home for decades) and needy and disorganized Fishtown. These two cities have names you may not recognize but which […]

After he booby-trapped his apartment with explosives, James Holmes walked into a theater Friday night and opened fire on a crowd waiting to see the first showing of the new Batman movie. He shot scores and murdered a dozen. Holmes acted for reasons unknown, but his actions were pure evil. His actions also were his […]

As the grandson of Holocaust survivors, the son of Penny Waga who was born in a DP camp in Poland, I always have struggled with checking the box labeled “white” when asked about “race”. The Jews are a people of our own — and it’s a complex issue, and just came across an interesting article […]

In January, prosecutors would not believe Eliana Lopez when she said her husband, San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, did not hurt her when he bruised her arm during a Dec. 31 argument on the dubious grounds that as a battered woman, she was effectively brainwashed to rationalize the abuse. In July, as Mayor Ed Lee […]

The media: loves to report on psychological studies that confirm its existing biases: and if it requires a sensational headline that isn’t even remotely justified by the study, well, that’s just the price the media has to pay to get attention. Study: Girls As Young As 6 Are Thinking Of Selves As Sex Objects A new study […]

Over at Forbes, there is: speculation from Andrew McAfee that in the future, it’ll be the humans who become obsolete instead of the machines. To articulate the core of his argument, McAfee draws from the concept of exponential growth patterns. The numbers at the beginning of any exponential curve (1+2+4+8+16….etc) are easy to comprehend. It isn’t […]