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To be honest, I am not a big fan of college basketball. Frankly, I know few people who are. After all, most people’s interest seems limited to picking teams on a whim from brackets in their office pools. But following how teams are faring in the tournament brackets has become as obligatory for political/social/cultural commentators as… Read more.
Is there any wonder there’s no team loyalty left in professional sports? Hell, the Indianapolis Colts got rid of Peyton Manning. This, despite all he did not just for the team but for the city as well. Therefore, one can hardly blame baseball’s Albert Pujols for ignoring loyalty to the St. Louis Cardinals to sign… Read more.
[T]he reason I use quotes from previous commentaries is to distinguish myself from all of the other pundits and commentators who will say anything to ‘look good’. What is particularly galling is that they have no qualms about saying something today that completely contradicts what they said just days ago. And they get away with… Read more.
It speaks volumes about the confluence of virtual reality and reality that erstwhile sensible people seem convinced that a one-day chain of celebrity tweets can do more to defeat Africa’s most brutal guerrilla fighter, Joseph Kony, than foot soldiers who have been on non-stop search-and-kill missions to get him for more than a decade. Specifically, much is being made in the media this week… Read more.
Given all the coverage of yesterday’s “Super Tuesday” primaries, you can be forgiven for thinking that the results are truly meaningful. Headlines today are hailing Romney’s win of the lion’s share of delegates, and proclaiming him the putative Republican nominee. But even before Trump, Pawlenty, Bachmann, Perry, Cain, Gingrich, Paul, and Romney turned the Republican nomination process into… Read more.
Last November Rush Limbaugh stoked the racially-tinged ignorance of the millions of “ditto heads” who tune in every day to his show by accusing Michelle Obama of exhibiting what he referred to as “uppity-ism”. This was how he described the graceful way the first lady returned the boos rednecks rained down on her during an… Read more.
Political corruption has become so endemic in Russia that elections there are every bit the pro-forma farce they are in unbridled dictatorships like North Korea and Zimbabwe. This is why the only uncertainty about the outcome of yesterday’s presidential election was over what percentage of the vote Vladimir Putin instructed his apparatchiks to assign to his… Read more.
Hardly! Because this bombastic, oxycontin-popping political bully did so with tongue firmly in cheek by making it clear that he’s only apologizing for not using whatever the politically correct words are these days for prostitute and slut…. Read more.
I’m going to forego my customary review to focus instead on one person who made a personal/racial statement last night that transcended all of the fashion statements that are usually the subject of so much morning-after chatter. That person is Viola Davis, and the statement she made was nothing more than wearing her hair in its natural state. The reason this is so noteworthy is that, for as long as… Read more.
I appreciate all the attention The Academy Awards give to good but relatively unseen films like The Tree of Life. Unfortunately, with all due respect to critics and members of the Academy (of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), how much a film makes, not whether the Academy awards it an Oscar, is the generally recognized… Read more.
