MLB has made its first suspension of a player this year, under its new, tough, steroids ban. This will show the fans that Commissioner Bud Selig & Co. are for real. So, who got hit? Was it Barry? Sammy? No, it was Alex Sanchez. Alex who? Exactly. The guy has neither the muscles nor...

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On February 1, Canadian-born actor John Vernon died at the age of 72, of complications following heart surgery. Vernon, born Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz, was famous for playing authority figures who tended to be hypocritical, pompous asses. Such casting owed much to Vernon’s broad-shouldered, 6’2” frame, booming baritone, and lack of leading man looks....

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In Saturday’s New York Times, Nicholas Kristof’s column is entitled, “Another Kind of Racism” and has the teaser, “If the old white regime in Zimbabwe were deliberately starving the nation the way Robert Mugabe is, the world would be in uproar.” I couldn’t believe it. Was communist publisher Pinch Sulzberger finally going to permit...

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See my new column at Mens News Daily.

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As reported by Beth Warren and Rhonda Cook, in today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution (registration required), Weeks before the Fulton County Courthouse shootings, sheriff’s officials received an e-mailed message from the mother of alleged killer Brian Nichols expressing concern that her son could become violent in court if he was convicted of a rape charge, officials...

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The Pope has received the last rites, and all roads leading to and from the Vatican have been shut down. The Vatican claims that the Pontiff’s condition is grave but stable.

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While the media and parishioners alike — how’s that for an odd couple? — fantasize that Pope John Paul II is going to recover and get his strength back, New York’s Edward Cardinal Egan was a breath of fresh air, in speaking in his Easter Mass of the 84-year-old Pontiff’s “difficult final days.”

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If you ever pick up jock itch, and you’ve got small children in the house, see if you have any zinc oxide-based (like Desitin) diaper rash creams. If so, they are a workable substitute for clotrimazole and tolnaftate creams, and will save you a few bucks and a trip to the drug store.

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Check out my story, which is the March cover story for Middle American News, “GOP Web Sites Suppress Immigration Debate.”

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For some thoughts on the Schiavo case, hit this link.

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“The glove didn’t fit, but the coffin did!” Thus, Dave the Taxi Driver in the Rockaways on Wednesday, in response to the death of O.J.’s lawyer, Johnnie Cochran, who learned the hard way that cancer kills rich and poor alike. I had just observed that the notorious attorney must be in a warm place,...

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Has anyone considered that Jesse Jackson’s intervention into the Schiavo case could be an example of brilliant, Clinton-style triangulation, in order to try and bring conservative Democrats (and even some Republicans) back into the fold? If you recall, Madame Hillary has made two overtures to the Right in recent months, in softening her approach...

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On the March 21 edition of the Lehrer Report, Jim Lehrer moderated one of the greatest debates I’ve ever seen, pitting Jay Alan Sekulow of the religious conservative American Center for Law and Justice, and Harvard prince Laurence Tribe, considered by many to be the most influential constitutional theorist in the country. (Of course,...

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