Legalizing Paternity Fraud

She told him he was the little girl’s father, and he believed her. When the state asked him to acknowledge his paternity, he went in and signed the paper they put before him. Though scarcely more than a child himself, he understood that good men don’t walk...

Publik Skool Biggotz

Nothing breeds sophomoric resentment like academic success. So it’s no surprise that home schoolers and their children are the target of a spiteful T-shirt sold in retail stores and online. The short-sleeved shirt is white with red trim. A red silhouette of a...

The Ugly Truth About Oracle

Last week, an article in the Wall Street Journal reported that Oracle had overstated the number of customers that it had for its most recent release (release 11i) of its applications. The article also implied that customers were not buying 11i or were not migrating...

Big Nanny Takes a Bath

Every night, I roll up my sleeves, take off my socks, and climb into the bathtub with my 11-month-old daughter, her two rubber duckies, a Mickey Mouse sponge, and a pile of floating toy debris. She splashes and squirms incessantly, but I have at least one hand on her...

Cisco Blows It

I’ve been saying for weeks that the markets would be waiting for Cisco’s earnings report — which was released yesterday after the bell — to set the tone for the post-earnings season world. That’s because Cisco was a winner of “the...

Sharon Should Have Said No To Powell

Earlier this year in April (2001), Secretary of State Colin Powell rebuked Israel for sending tanks and bulldozers into Gaza following Palestinian mortar attacks on the Israeli town of Sederot. “The Israeli response,” he said, “was excessive and...

United Nations

The United Nations will open its “World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance” (let’s call it WCAR) on Aug 31 in Durban, South Africa. Already there are threats to pull out by the United States unless...

An Unbiased Eye for Education

His nomination isn’t even official yet, but the knives are already out for Gerald Reynolds, the former president of the Center for New Black Leadership whom President Bush has tapped to run the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights. His crime? He...