Opinion
Referring to Kobe Bryant as a “rapist” is a technical foul
My immediate response to the tragic death of Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant was almost as shocking to me as the incident itself....
The Cannonball River slobs
The activists protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline call themselves “Water Protectors,” but there’s a more evocative one-syllable Anglo-Saxonism that better describes them.
Slobs.
Now that the...
Insider tips profit biggest hedge funds
The high-rollers who run Wall Street’s top hedge funds essentially gamble with other people’s money, betting billions of dollars on such stuff as whether XYZ Corporation’s third-quarter profits will be one point lower than forecast. Doing this, they assert, is ...
Nixon comes back as a Democrat
Harvey and I were breaking out the Doritos when there was a knock on the door...
If you don’t like fracking, hope you like global warming
So you don’t like fracking, huh...
Three years post-Trayvon: What has changed?
On Feb. 26, 2012, supposed “Neighborhood Watchman” George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old black man, as Martin walked home from visiting a convenience store in Sanford, Fla. The case ignited questions about racial profiling, vigilantism and “...
We can’t deny the similarities
It is dismaying how much Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are alike. That was the main theme at the 10th anniversary...
Ignored warnings of a premature DHS anti-fascist
In 1936, a fascist general named Francisco Franco staged an uprising against a democratically elected progressive government in Spain. Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany...
