Category Archives: Celebrity
The Night They Tore the Lampposts Down
A ten year old boy was raped and students rioted…because coach Paterno was fired. In a show of balance, they held a candlelight vigil for the victims on Friday. Nothing was burned down.
As I type this I’m watching the Nebraska and Penn State teams gather in prayer before the start of Saturday’s game.
I thought this column by the Washington Post’s Tom Boswell was best.
The Big Picture
Condoleeza Rice was minding her own business last week until Dick Cheney tried to blow up her head. No, he didn’t take her hunting. The former VP was hustling his book, In My Time, by saying it would make heads explode. The book did get a rise out of Condi by claiming she tearfully regretted advising President Bush to apologize for his State of the Union claim that Iraq had tried to buy yellow cake uranium in Niger.
The unwanted African attention continued when it was revealed that the cross dressing former Libyan leader, Moammar Gadhafi, kept an album crammed with photos of the former Secretary of State.
As it turns out , the yellow cake business led the demise of Saddam Hussein (not to mention Scooter Libby in the Valerie Plame trial), which directly caused Gadhafi to fearfully surrender his own real nuclear program and give up AQ Kahn’s international nuke sales operation.
iWorld
Steve Jobs is resigning as CEO at Apple, a company he started with Steve Wosniak 1976. The company now reportedly has more cash on hand than the U.S. government. Ok, bad example, you probably do too. Anyway, Jobs is responsible for the personal computer as we know it today, as well as smart phones, iPads, movie animation, the music industry, and God knows what else.. He really did change the world. Here’s how Walt Mossberg, the WSJ tech guru, put it,
…Mr. Jobs, in multiple stages of his business career, changed global technology and media in multiple ways on multiple occasions. And that changed the way people live.
Man of the People
The president celebrated his birthday in style while the stock market suffered its worst week since March 2009. Here’s an exchange between ABC’s Jake Tapper and press secretary Jay Carney over the collapsing stock market on Thursday.
