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Support Your Local Police … Or Else

Friday, January 2, 2015

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chief of Police William Bratton should do the one thing they would never dare do to fix the attitude of their police force. They should fire a thousand cops.   In the midst …

Ebola is Good

Monday, November 3, 2014

The Ebola virus is the best thing to happen to American politicians in years. Ebola has done what neither war, climate change, nor economic meltdown have accomplished. It has united our politicians in action because Ebola is bad. Ebola threatens …

Page Two: Stoned on 8th Avenue

Monday, August 4, 2014

  It seems as if everyone is stoned these days, including the editorial board of the New York Times.   The Times called for ending the federal ban on marijuana, saying that the costs of law enforcement and slamming Americans …

Baseball, Futebol, and Football

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Anyone who has ever been in a Major League Baseball dugout five minutes after the game wouldn’t snicker about whether soccer is a real sport. At the end of a baseball game the dugout floor is spotted with more spit …

Gay in the Locker Room

Monday, May 12, 2014

  For a while when I played in a men’s hockey league in Los Angeles one of our regular opponents was an all-gay team called the Blades. That’s right, they were the gay Blades.   One night we played in …

The Absurdity of Everest

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Climbing Mt. Everest is no longer a noble pursuit and the people who do it are not heroes. Everest has become a magnet not for the best among us expanding boundaries of the known world, but for the worst, the …

Journalism’s House of Cards

Monday, March 24, 2014

In the second season of the Netflix drama “House of Cards” CNN’s breathless anchor Ashley Banfield conducts a dramatized interview with the actress Robin Wright, who plays the fictional wife of a fictional vice-president. At the end of the scene …

NBC’s Triumph from Tragedy

Monday, February 17, 2014

As I watched Olympic skier Bode Miller being interviewed by NBC’s Christin Cooper after his record-setting bronze medal, I had one wish for him. I wished that he would grab Cooper and throw her over the fence to a pack …

Spicoli Comes to the Olympics

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

The first American hero of the 2014 Winter Olympics is the goofy and charming Sage Kotsenburg of Park City, who won the first ever slopestyle snowboarding competition. Slopestyle is acrobatic snowboarding in which riders fly off vertical ramps to reach …

The Senior Global Digital Foreign Correspondent

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Katie Couric started her new job doing television on the Internet and is now the “Yahoo News Global Anchor.” Katie started out as a spear-carrying reporter, worked her way up to the commanding position of anchor, and has become a …