September 30, 2009

Hiroshi Motomura's Review Of Alien Nation 14 Years Later

Hiroshi Motomura's Michigan Law Review article about Alien Nation showed up in a search result recently, and I had a look at what are some standard soundbites that critics complained of at the time. (An early example of what Kathy Shaidle calls "Ransom Note Racism.") Motomura wrote

Tracey Ullman's Death Row Weddings

Somebody asked if there's ever been a movie about Death Row weddings.

Here's Tracey Ullman's recent clip in which she plays the current Mrs. Wet Wipe Killer and the future Mrs. Tastee-Freez Rapist.

And here's an earlier Tracey Takes On in which fierce lawyeress Sydney Kross convinces meek bank teller Kay Clark to marry her Death Row penpal so Sydney can make an appeal for leniency.

Norman Hsu, Immigrant Success Story? Not!

This was a report from the Wall Street Journal:

Democratic Donor Gets 24-Year Term

By CHRIS HERRING

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

NEW YORK -- A federal judge Tuesday sentenced Democratic fund-raiser Norman Hsu to more than 24 years in prison for illegally funneling money to U.S. political candidates and for defrauding investors in a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme.

Why the Democrats dread 2010

The news that President Obama circumvented Congress to appoint a “Diversity Czar” called Mark Lloyd at the Fedaral Communications Commission never really became news.

Killer Groupies No New Phenomenon

The killer groupies Steve mentions below aren't a new phenomenon.

Those Are Going To Be Some Long Bus Rides!

As you may recall, the 1954 Brown v.

"Killer Groupies An Unexplained Mystery"

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

Killer Groupies an unexplained mystery
Stefan Tomik, Chronicle Staff Writer

Castro Has At Least Ten Children By Six Women

Fidel Castro has kept his private life intensely secret, but it turns out to be exactly what you'd expect. The Telegraph totes up the numbers uncovered so far in "Fidel Castro's Cuba full of his offspring after years of womanizing by El Commandante."