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During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama always seemed indifferent to media pundits swooning over him. But instead of acting scorned, they made a virtue of this diss by propagating a narrative about him as a preternaturally cool, intellectual dude who never gets fazed by anything: remember “no drama Obama”? Well, that was then. Because these same… Read more.
A surprising number of readers have inquired why I did not publish commentaries on one or another of the famous people who died recently, including actor Gary Coleman, actor and renaissance man Dennis Hopper, singer Ali Woodson, baseball pitcher Jose Lima and TV host Art Linkletter. Someone even contacted me today to inquire if I was going to comment… Read more.
Haiti held the Miss Haiti beauty pageant on May 16. But the winner reflects more White hope than Black beauty. I published the blog post “Black Is Beautiful! Just Not in South Africa” a few months ago. In it, I referenced a high schooler who repeated the famous Kenneth Clarke experiment. Clarke’s experiment in 1954 found that Black schoolgirls preferred White… Read more.
Israel incited worldwide condemnation on Monday after its commandos killed nine pro-Palestinian activists in a raid on their flotilla about 72 miles off the coast of the Gaza Strip. The majority of those killed were Turkish citizens. This prompted Turkey, Israel’s most important ally in the Muslim world, to call it a “bloody massacre”… Read more.
I am loath to comment on anybody’s marriage. But Al and Tipper Gore made such a public virtue of their 40-year marriage that it’s impossible to resist a little schadenfreude over its demise. Not to mention the irony that it’s Al and Tipper who are getting a divorce instead of Bill and Hillary Clinton …… Read more.
[Author’s Note: I am acutely mindful that the vast majority of readers of this weblog couldn’t care any less about the political goings on in my tiny home country of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI). But new developments there are such that I feel obliged to do so today for the first time in over… Read more.
