Another “Great Fight”, Another Disappointment Well, I’m beginning to feel more like Jimmy the Greek than a Pissed Off Prosecutor. But I am a pissed off boxing fan. Particularly as we approach the Mayweather – McGregor fiasco. As I predicted here some time ago, the blockbuster Pacquiao – Mayweather bout would not only prove …
“All the News…” (Part II) In my previous post – “A Bomb For President Clinton” (subtitled: “All the News…” Part I) I got to thinking about what circumstances cause a news item to wind its way into the public discourse. And if it doesn’t – well then, for all intents and purposes – it never …
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Who writes history? (“All the News…” Part I) Over the past 10 days or so, as the media’s daily advisements were issued with appropriate alarm, the Wisconsin nut-job who burglarized (not “robbed”….this is becoming tedious) a gun store on April 4 had been the subject of a massive manhunt. This was presumably because in …
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I heard it again a couple of weeks ago on the evening news – “Fake News”? Maybe not. But “Las Vegas True Crime”? Nope. “Like something straight out of Ocean’s 11!!!” blared the TV. What? This time it was an “Armed Robbery”, of the Bellagio Hotel and Casino, with shots fired! What made this brazen, …
Inspiration and Consternation Matias Ferreira Matias Ferreira, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who lost both legs below the knee after stepping on an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan in 2011, became the first double amputee police officer in Suffolk County, New York last week. Ferreria and his fellow Marines were on a night mission searching a compound for terrorists …