I’ve got “baby fever”It started with a TV commercial. I can't remember what was being advertised. All I know is that it showed a father holding a newborn baby, and I started to cry -- not out of sadness, but awe. A baby, a beautiful baby ! Look, I'm human, and as such, I've always found babies cute -- but, suddenly, right around my 28th birthday earlier this year, crossing paths with them caused me to grab the arm ...
Sayonara, Sarko!When French President Nicolas Sarkozy picked Place de la Concorde to stage his big Paris rally earlier this month, he was cloaking himself in the past conservative glories of Gen. Charles de Gaulle and Jacques Chirac. Even more, he was reliving his own victory parade in 2007, when “Sarko the American” promised to completely reform the French economy. But, as state-owned France 24 reminded its ...
“Oklahoma City”: The Bubba jobIn the hours after the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, cable news breathlessly reported that authorities were searching for three Middle Eastern men supposedly seen fleeing the scene. True, this was just two years after the bombing of the World Trade Center by a Islamist cell led by Ramzi Yousef, but even so, the notion that foreign terrorists would target an ...