Oh the irony. Sony Pictures’ production of “The Interview”, a Seth Rogan (aka: Dirty Randy) post-stoner buddy film about a pair of journalists recruited to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has itself been extirpated by Pyongyang’s cyber … [Continue reading]
Recent cases in Ferguson, Cleveland and New York have reignited the Trayvon Martin debate about law enforcement’s use of lethal force and America’s perceived “valuation” of black life. If putting a price tag on human beings seems unworkable if not … [Continue reading]
Despite Apple stock bouncing up against at all-time highs, the company is beginning to resemble a bungling Microsoft. The newest version of its computer operating system, dubbed Yosemite, has been fraught with bugs – and none of the issues from WiFi … [Continue reading]
The outrage over diseased West Africans seems to have died out with Thomas Eric Duncan; we now concentrate our indignation on American healthcare workers, those infected both here and abroad. Given that the mortality rate of Ebola victims in West … [Continue reading]
When Stalin was cautioned, in the immediate aftermath of World War II, that the Yalta Agreement contravened plans for the Soviet annexation Central Europe, he famously rejoined, "Never mind. We'll do it our own way later." So it is today for … [Continue reading]