This Sunday, February 21st marked another anniversary of the assassination of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, or Malcolm X, who died on a Sunday 45 years ago. This May 19th would've been his 85th birthday. As someone who admires him, studied him, and has been influenced by his curiosity and courage, I...
Posted January 25, 2010 | 12:24:00 (EST)
As some of you may know by now, due to the largely arbitrary nature by which television network executives make programming decisions, 40-something veteran comedy writer and Harvard alum Conan O'Brien was relieved of his duties as host of The Tonight Show after only a seven-month tenure, with over $30...
Posted August 17, 2009 | 03:04:45 (EST)
Scene 29. INT. BASEMENT - DAY
Vernon and Carl are sitting and talking.
VERNON
What did you want to be when you
were young?
CARL
When I was a kid, I wanted to be
John Lennon...
VERNON
Carl don't be a...
Posted June 29, 2009 | 04:52:18 (EST)
"The existing set of reserve currencies, including the US dollar, have failed to perform their functions." - Dmitry Medvedev, 6-17-09, Yekaterinburg, Russia
"The international capitalist order is retreating." - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 6-17-09, Yekaterinburg, Russia
"We don't have any problems with US investment." - M.A. Khatibi Tabatabaei, Iran's representative on OPEC's...
Posted June 15, 2009 | 12:28:15 (EST)
"Come on baby won't you show me what you got, yeah; I want your salvation, whoa." - Rancid, 1994
Wha, wa, wait...what just happened?!?
One second there were faces of smiling, enthusiastic kids in the streets wearing green scarves and Chachi Arcola-style leg bandanas for CNN and...
Posted May 26, 2009 | 15:21:36 (EST)
One of the potentially more daring and unique foreign policy mandates of the Obama Administration involves a pivotal shift in U.S./Iran relations (or lack thereof). The core reasons for said shift are not limited to America's political interests in the Middle East. More so, they entail intricate long-term geostrategic considerations...
Posted February 22, 2010 | 11:12:00 (EST)