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I have to begin with a disclaimer: I did not read this book. I just listened in utter stupefaction a few days ago to a female friend who did as she shared why Fifty Shades of Grey, by author E. L. James, is all the rage. No doubt my friend would declare herself an unabashed… Read more.
Dick Clark [is the] the music industry maverick, longtime TV host, and powerhouse producer who changed the way we listened to pop music with American Bandstand, and whose trademark Rockin’ Eve became a fixture of New Year’s celebrations. (ABC News, April 18, 2012) What more can one say? Everybody knows about his involvement in the… Read more.
One of the problems with social networks like Twitter is that people use them far more for self-promotion than social networking. A truly disturbing trend in this respect is the way people seek attention by making patently specious claims about TSA agents sexually assaulting them. The latest is model Bar Rafaeli who tweeted yesterday that… Read more.
It’s an indication of what a waste of time this year’s Summit of the Americas was that the only newsworthy items were: the threat by ALBA countries (most notably Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador) to boycott future summits if the United States and Canada veto an invitation to Cuba … again; the ” wheels-up, rings-off” shenanigans of U.S. Secret Service… Read more.
The Planned Parenthood and Sandra Fluke (remember her?) controversies earlier this year exposed the paternalistic/chauvinistic mindset that still prevails among Republicans and gave the impression that they are waging a war on women. But these controversies also demonstrated why Democrats are winning the fight for women voters this election cycle. This is why it is hardly… Read more.
When you hear President Obama issuing his cease and desist statement to North Korea about testing its missile this week, just bear this is mind: The only thing newsworthy about this statement is that it is almost identical to the one he issued last month in response to similar tests this hermit kingdom conducted. Moreover, Obama… Read more.
Now I know what John the Baptist must have felt like when Jesus began preaching the same gospel he’d been preaching in the wilderness for so many years. Because I’ve been writing about the geopolitical implications of China buying up influence throughout the Caribbean for years, but nobody seemed to care. By contrast, the New York… Read more.
I am not without some racial empathy of my own, having had similar run-ins with the police in Arlington, Virginia over the past 15 years. Therefore, given that I always managed to reason with the good ole boys who ‘racially profiled’ me, I find it incomprehensible that Gates was unable to do the same in… Read more.
When I began commenting on the deaths of famous people four years ago, the last thing I wanted was to contribute to our culture’s perverse fascination with celebrities. In fact, I only began this feature as a lark to propagate the superstition that the deaths of famous people come in threes. I hereby declare that,… Read more.
