From “Happy Valley” to Supermax? Graham Spanier is going to jail. Spanier was the longtime president of Penn State University (PSU), who was toppled in the notorious Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal in 2011 and 2012. Sandusky was a veteran PSU assistant football coach, and in 2012 he was convicted of 45 counts of sexually … Continue reading Penn State Ex-Pres Headed to Jail: Was PSU’s Secrecy Also a Perp There?
Are we ready for the canonization of St. Liz, of Cheney, Martyr? Lifetime Catholic MoDo isn’t buying it: columnist Maureen Dowd bats away the shiny new blond miraculous medal. She won’t kneel, or even lean, to light the votive candle. Her trouble is, mea culpa, Dowd remembers. And talks. How uncouth, and inconvenient: Maureen Dowd, … Continue reading A Tale of Two Conservatives: Liz & Longwell
It’s true. Anyone, even you or I, can now cuss on the grounds of the historic old Alamance County Courthouse, in downtown Graham NC. You could even do it right on the courthouse steps. Right there. In front of God & everybody — everybody including Sheriff Terry Johnson. Yes, even him. The Raleigh News & … Continue reading There Goes the neighborhood: Cussing no longer a crime on the Alamance County courthouse steps
The first time I heard the Jeff Bezos Apology story, it was from my big brother just the other day, and I immediately thought: No way. There is just no way Jeff Bezos publicly apologized. And he simply could not possibly be dumb enough to do what he had allegedly apologized for. Not that he’s … Continue reading When Jeff Bezos Personally Apologized. No, Really.
Tom Friedman, longtime NYTimes columnist, treats us to some snippets of diary entries from his first trip to Afghanistan, in early 2002, with then Senator Joe Biden. Friedman opens the piece in the posture of sadder-but-wiser sage: “I was not surprised that Joe Biden decided to finally pull the plug on the U.S. presence in … Continue reading “Nation Building” on the Moon? Smarter than the U.S. in Afghanistan?