Shameful

The conduct of China’s Princeling, Bo Xilai, you ask? (I like to imagine his last name is pronounced like the prodigious rapper of my youth, Chi Ali.) Nope. That he was just recently indicted for bribery, corruption, and abuse of power? Nope. How about that I already have a Princelings song ready to roll? Uh […]

Willy Wonka

Blagojevich goes to jail Thursday . . . possibly for 14 years. 17 counts of political corruption. Stunning, right? Governor of Illinois. A Celebrity Apprentice contestant. Great bouffant. These people don’t go to jail for a decade and a half, right? Not for trading political favors, certainly? It feels like the white-collar iteration of the […]