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I am among those who have been agitating for years for the United States to lift its hypocritical, unconscionable, and demonstrably misguided embargo against Cuba. Not least because the people who have been (and are being) harmed most by it are poor Cubans, the majority of whom are Black. Instead of merely extolling the Pope’s… Read more.
No doubt you recall the media sensation First Lady Michelle Obama caused last month when she debuted her new hairstyle on the eve of President Obama’s inauguration. Everyone was singing its praises. I, on the other hand, sounded this discordant note: I’m not feelin’ it. It makes her look too much like a grown woman… Read more.
No doubt you have heard all kinds of people waxing nirvanic about their near-death experiences. For obvious reasons, those getting the most attention are scientists and doctors who many seem to think give these experiences more credibility. Never mind that these doctors are invariably promoting books for worldly gain as much as providing insight into… Read more.
There is no gainsaying that Pope Benedict XVI is abandoning the Vatican ship of state in troubled waters. It is bad enough that Cardinal Roger Mahoney and Archbishop Jose Gomez, Mahoney’s successor as leader of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the largest in the United States, are having a Cain and Abel-like struggle over the… Read more.
Well, first things first: The Host I say give the hosting gig back to Billy Crystal, permanently! (“2006 Oscars,” The iPINIONS Journal, March 6, 2006) This is how I felt about Billy Crystal until he returned last year to fill in for Eddie Murphy at the last minute. It may be that he just did… Read more.
I’m on record stating rather emphatically how much I detest the Annual Academy Awards telecast. Because I have little regard for preening, pampered poseurs showing off their borrowed frocks and bling-bling as a prelude to a three-hour show – only six minutes of which anyone really cares about (i.e., the time it takes to present… Read more.
Like so many people, you probably recoiled with cultural indignation at reports this week about horse meat being sold all over Europe as beef. Of course it is wrong to mislabel horse meat as beef. But I would caution Americans to read the following before giving full vent to their holier-than-thou attitude in this respect:… Read more.
I read with a mixture of dismay and bemusement about the goings-on in Haiti this week at the Twenty-Fourth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government. This Conference is the de facto central government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and is responsible for setting its policies. Perhaps you’ve read reports on discussions the… Read more.
The White House press corps is being quite properly ridiculed for throwing a hissy fit over President Obama’s decision to ban correspondents from covering his round of golf with Tiger Woods on Sunday. But Ed Henry, president of the White House Correspondents Association, is doing his best to defend their whining: This isn’t about a… Read more.
Victoria’s Secret model Cameron Russell delivered an (ostensibly) self-effacing perspective on her profession at a Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference last October. TED posted her talk on its website last month. But, for some inexplicable reason, the mainstream media began reporting on it as breaking news last week. Here, in part, is what she said:… Read more.
