Welcome! This is an unapologetic, agenda-free zone. Just commentaries on current events that’ll move you to think, laugh, rage, and even cry.
For a little context, here is a relatively lengthy excerpt from “China Buying Up Political Dominion Over the Caribbean (Latin America, and Africa),” February 22, 2005, in which I presaged (almost 10 years ago) the spectre – not only of countries selling their sovereignty to China for easy cash, but of China placing increasingly mercantilist… Read more.
If you consider what incredible access members of the public have always had to U.S. presidents, you would only begin to appreciate the almost fatalistic challenges Secret Service agents face on a daily basis. This is why, despite the assassination of JFK in 1963, a close call on Ford’s life in 1975, and an even… Read more.
Here in part is what I wrote in 2009, when pictures of Olympic champion Michael Phelps toking on a bong that would make Snoop Dogg green with envy went viral: Of course, with all they have invested in, and can still make off, this greatest Olympian of all time, I suspect advertisers and USA Swimming and/or the… Read more.
