6+ day, 19+ hour ago  (704+ words) Back to all Columns Inasmuch as no one on TV seems to have bothered reading the opinions, here are a few highlights. 1) Justice Clarence Thomas's dissent is a tour de force. It will go down in history with Justice Benjamin…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (607+ words) Back to all Columns The reporters covering the story, Rachel Abrams and Debra Kamin, couldn't have been more shocked if they'd uncovered a lynching. They interviewed a woman who is suing RTL for discrimination after her application for membership was…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (825+ words) Back to all Columns The preposterous spectacle of the recent mayoral runoff election in Los Angeles may be a blessing in disguise'and not just for Republican candidate Spencer Pratt, who can now move his family to Miami. As the entire…...

4+ week, 5+ hour ago  (723+ words) Back to all Columns On Tuesday this week, 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony was convicted of murder for fatally stabbing a competitor at track meet in Texas last year. The killing quickly became national news because Anthony is black, his victim was…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (912+ words) Back to all Columns Of all the appalling things President Trump has done recently, from slapping his name on the Kennedy Center, to starting a disastrous war that has accomplished nothing other than drive his approval ratings into the dirt,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (755+ words) Back to all Columns Other than Trump's finally ending his Iran War with a beautiful deal " a tremendous deal, an incredible deal, and could everyone please tell him that? " the president's only other helpful move this quarter was to endorse…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (563+ words) Back to all Columns From that point on, the race card simply stopped working, like a subway card that won't open a turnstile anymore. Fuhrman's obituaries didn't explain his part in helping secure this brief respite, so I thought I'd…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (1004+ words) Back to all Columns Whatever his position on transgenders, Chirayu Rana, the Indian who claims a female executive at'JPMorgan'made him her "sex slave," must be wishing he could change his gender right about now. No sooner had he filed a…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (734+ words) Back to all Columns That was the tone of The New York Times'articleon the officers sentence. In the Times telling, the case wasnt about causation, intent or reasonableness, but a test of "how the legal system would respond when officers…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (742+ words) Back to all Columns I've been trying to distract myself from the end of the world, as Trump blows up not only Iran but the Republican Party with a pointless war that has spiked oil prices, depleted our munitions, closed…...