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2011
May
6
 
 
Two weeks ago, Donald Trump irritated President Barack Obama into releasing a longer-form birth certificate to quell absurd yet persistent questions about his country of birth. Last week, Trump scowled as Obama shot back with one-liners at the White House Correspondents Dinner. The next night, Obama coincidentally pre-empted the climax of Trump's Celebrity Apprentice with news of his successful raid on the compound of Osama bin Laden. So what will Trump do...I have a prediction...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
May
5
 
 
If you're not ready to read about Wednesday's stellar second-season finale of FX's Justified, then don't read past this paragraph. Because I can't wait to write about it -- and I don't intend to... More than any episode to date, this most recent episode mirrored all the satisfying elements of its inspirational source, an Elmore Leonard story. Characters fleshed out with both wit and menace finally quit circling each other, and moved in for a tense, anything-can-happen confrontation...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
May
3
 
 
After watching traditional news coverage of Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of U.S. forces Sunday night and Monday morning, perhaps you tuned to "lighter fare" for a few laughs. But if you wound up watching, say, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, David Letterman and Craig Ferguson, you got a lot more, and a lot more thoughtful perspective, than you may have been expecting...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
May
2
 
 
The news came suddenly Sunday night, and still dominated newscasts and news channels Monday morning: The FBI's #1 Most Wanted fugitive, Osama bin Laden, had been found and killed in a U.S. Navy SEALs raid on a secret compound in urban Pakistan. The mood of most reports was unabashedly, sometimes even uncomfortably, jubilant...