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It was fairly clear that V. Stiviano, as the media refers to her, was a sociopath from listening to her on that tape . Anyone capable of mus...

Maureen Dowd had a caustic column in the NY Times (!) yesterday about Obama's petulant, wimpy persona. The funniest paragraph was the s...

If you listen to this extended version of the tape of the conversation between Donald Sterling and his ex-mistress V. Stiviano, two things ...

(Donald Sterling and V. Stiviano) One aspect of the Donald Sterling brouhaha which doesn't quite make sense to me is, if he didn...

A pretty good summary of the insanity of the modern art world, from this morning's NY Post. I would think that some of the patrons wh...

More mugshots and descriptions of crimes from the Huffpost, with my comments in italics. Kola J. McGrath Kola J. McGrath Kola J. McGr...

Rented Philomena last night. It was as good as advertised. The (somewhat) true story was affecting, the writing was good, and the acting by...

In January of 2012 this blog had a series of posts based on the Huffpost's collection of mugshots of dumb criminals. I suggested that th...

Most Americans first became vaguely aware of Chechens as the combative people in the Caucasus who seemed to be constantly at odds with the R...

My son and I saw Out of the Furnace this past weekend. It was slow-moving, heavy-handed, and predictable, your basic revenge film. Christia...

I was looking at "Traffic sources" in the Statistics section of my blog and saw that I'd gotten a number of referrals from a b...

The other day my son pointed out a video of William Shatner "singing" (speaking) the words to Elton John's Rocket Man , from ...

All big Army bases  -- like Ft. Hood -- might as well post those signs which announce "Gun-free zone." Which pretty much translate...

A recent article pointed out that the impetus behind the new college players' union is coming from the United Steelworkers Union, which...

My son recently mentioned something he'd just read: that you can tell everything you need to know about someone from watching him work o...

A recent article in the NY Post said that Kim Jong Un, North Korea's leader, had ordered all the men in his country to get his haircut:...

Former television anchor Willow Bay has just been appointed director of USC's journalism school. She was until recently a senior edi...

The TV show Naked and Afraid  is an intriguing concept: putting two people into the jungle and seeing if they can survive for 21 days and re...

I remember watching the Holyfield-Tyson fights of 1996 and 1997, and thinking how magnificent they looked. Both men entered the ring superbl...

Most people seem to have a "type" to whom they're physically attracted. And it is often said that opposites attract. It seems ...