The Kobe Mess

Some stray thoughts on the whole Kobe Bryant debacle: 1: Kobe admitted that he committed adultery with the woman who’s charging him with rape. I’m betting all my money that this isn’t the first time Kobe has “wandered in foreign lands,” if you catch my drift. In fact, if this woman was among the first [...]

al Qaeda: Warriors or Criminals?

I’m reading over a Federal Judge’s finding that the government can detain accused “dirty bomber” Jose Padilla indefinitely because the president “is authorized under the Constitution and by law to direct the military to detain enemy combatants.” And it brings me back to a question that has nagged at me ever since we declared war [...]

Looking at a Small Picture: Death of a Statistic

November, 1989 It’s a cruel crazy beautiful world One day when you wake up I will have to say goodbye It’s your world so live in it -Johnny Clegg On Tuesday, November 20 – two days before Thanksgiving – Robert Lewis, Jr., 34, was knifed to death in the parking lot of the Burlington Coat [...]