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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.
You’d be wrong if you think American Idol had its largest TV audience of the season last night because it was the finale or because it was Simon Cowell’s farewell show. Because the only reason for this spike in viewership (in what has been a season of plummeting ratings) was the duly hyped special appearance by former judge Paula… Read more.
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, has been little more than a public embarrassment for the British Royal family ever since she married Prince Andrew in 1986, notwithstanding the popular myth about her injecting a bit of life into the moribund monarchy. And, frankly, this stemmed far more from her own insecurities, which compelled her to… Read more.
Given the way Jamaican celebrities like Bob Marley have glorified ganja (marijuana), foreigners can be forgiven for thinking that it is the national crop of Jamaica. And Jamaicans can be forgiven for making folk heroes of men who defiantly use marijuana, or even profit from the sale of it. After all, it has undisputed medicinal… Read more.
Ever since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20 there has been a surreal vigil for the beaches and marshlands along the Gulf Coast. Well, the oil has landed. And it is giving a new ecological meaning to the dreaded term,” Black Death;” because the environmental damage will be catastrophic. … Read more.
For six seasons I was convinced that Lost was just like Seinfeld: a very entertaining series about nothing (or everything depending on how much you’re into surreal ideations about life, death and all things in between). And last night’s finale only confirmed this. No doubt much to the chagrin of the suckers who were expecting nirvana-like revelations. Instead,… Read more.
