When a judge tells you to do something, you do it. Unless, apparently, you are a judge.So it has been with Roy Moore, the Alabama chief justice who defied courts and colleagues for two years in a stubborn refusal to remove a 5,200-pound monument of the Ten Commandments.Never mind that Moore was the one who ordered the monument made (and here I thought judges could only order gavels and robes).
Ionce played pool with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Really. He invited me to his home in Sun Valley, Idaho, (one of several homes he owns) and I walked in through a massive foyer and came upon a dining room table that had to be, conservatively, a mile and a half long.Arnold sat at the far end, like a dot on the horizon. His wife, Maria Shriver, sat next to him. (I think it was her; I'm a little nearsighted.) Upon seeing me, Arnold, a friendly fellow, waved hello and yelled something. I waited for the echo to reach me, and when it did, these were the words:
Here's the thing about the human heart: You can't legislate it. You can't make laws requiring people to like broccoli. You can't force people into theaters to see "Gigli."And it's the reason the NFL's minority hiring policy is seriously flawed.The Detroit Lions know this now, after team president Matt Millen was fined $200,000 by the league. His crime? He failed to interview a minority candidate before hiring Steve Mariucci, a white man, as his head coach. Under the NFL policy, you must interview at least one minority or face punishment.
You leave work Friday afternoon, the Red Wings are talking contract with Sergei Fedorov. You come in Monday morning, and Fedorov is a Mighty Duck.Talk about a lost weekend.What happened? How did the Wings let their most talented player get away for nothing?Well, as Orange County real estate agents begin hunting for a new mansion, here's the bottom line:Sergei saw himself one way, the Wings saw him another.
Editor's note: This column contains lyrics that could be offensive. But the Free Press thinks they're important to understand the columnist's view.So I went to the Eminem concert in a football stadium last week and here's one good thing I can say about it right off the bat: There were no long guitar solos. That was good. There were also no musicians. That was bad.
Don't look now, but cable TV news just wet its pants. The story it prays for every programming day tumbled from the lips of a clean-cut young district attorney Friday afternoon, against a backdrop of the gorgeous Colorado Rockies."After much deliberation, charges were filed today against Kobe Bean Bryant," said Mark Hurlbert, the DA in Eagle County, Colo. "The defendant is charged with one count of sexual assault, a class three felony. . . ."Penalties are (if convicted) prison terms: four years to life imprisonment."
Mitch Albom writes about running an orphanage in impoverished Port-au-Prince, Haiti, his kids, their hardships, laughs and challenges, and the life lessons he’s learned there every day.
