Jeter, who is to baseball what David Beckham is to football (supremely talented, dates babes) has been edged out in the fans’ balloting for the All Star game by some guy from – it hurts to have to write this – Cleveland.When we think of anything half-serious at all, it’s got nothing to do with the Senate race, but more, say, with the opening of Spike Lee’s new film Summer of Sam. (The super-super rich, of course, weren’t bothered – they helicopter to their weekend places.) It’s so hot that even on a holiday weekend, our beloved Yankees played to only a half-full stadium.
That’s another thing that is on our mind; the Yankees, and the appalling slight just meted out to Derek Jeter, the team’s superstar shortstop. It’s so hot (this is the only good thing about the heatwave) that the Sunrise Highway, which leads to the Hamptons on the end of Long Island, melted on Monday, giving New York’s super rich an extra few hours of misery on the ride home. On Monday, it was 101F in Central Park; that night, I had some neighbours over for a barbecue – except that it was so blisteringly hot that we cooked and ate indoors. We have bigger things on our minds – principally, how to get through the most hellish heatwave that the city has known since records were kept. IF YOU want to know what we New Yorkers think about Hillary Clinton deciding to run for the Senate from the Empire State (that’s what we call it, y’know), I can tell you: we hardly think about it at all.

Yet his ideas are met with embarrassed silence or a genteel collective shushing; the effect is to tolerate his ideas That in turn emboldens foot soldiers to take the next step The nation can speak louder against hate Raise up now that voice.USA Today. As the stock-pickers go wild and the values of Web businesses continue to soar, the story of Smith is a sobering reminder that some of this new medium’s users are using it solely for evil.New York PostTHE FIRST Amendment demands that the nation’s haters be allowed to hold and express their views But that doesn’t require others to be silent against them People like Hale exist at the margins of society. Without the Web, those few hundred people might have remained solitary creeps The Net has given them a false sense of community. The Internet has given groups like this increased visibility – indeed, its would-be fuhrer, Matt Hale, has already become a media celebrity, appearing yesterday on NBC’s Today show Hale’s group has only a few hundred members.

The group’s repulsive Web pages confirm the contention of one expert that “this is a religion for and by sociopaths”. The Journal Gazette, Indiana
SMITH WAS a member of the World Church of the Creator, a white-supremacist group. Hale’s probably sweating out some legal liability for Smith’s killing spree, and that’s great Let him sweat. And when the cause inevitably fails to pacify his inner demons, he explodes. He meets a guru – in this case the race-baiting Hale – and devotes himself to a cause he believes gives meaning to his life: racial identity. But Smith’s sick story reads like a typical case history of the alienated American white male who’s in trouble with the law and going nowhere.