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For all my adult life, I’ve been among those calling for the legalization of marijuana. Below are excerpts from just a few related commentaries – dating back to 2005, the year I inaugurated this weblog – that will attest to this fact. From “Landmark Healthcare Decisions by U.S. Government,” June 12, 2005: Consider that every year 435,000… Read more.
The NFL suspended Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice for the first two games of the 2014 NFL season on Thursday for violating the league’s personal conduct policy. The news comes after Rice got into an altercation with then-fiancée Janay Palmer at an Atlantic City hotel in February. Rice allegedly struck Palmer unconscious while in… Read more.
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Not so long ago, the only people who went to cinema to watch porn were presumed to be perverted men. But nothing indicates how mainstream this has become quite like Brian Williams teasing the trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey on last night’s edition of the NBC Nightly News. I did not read this book.… Read more.
Evidently, traditional fans got their panties in a twist yesterday because I insinuated (in a commentary on Lance Armstrong) that the rise in Golf’s popularity over the past decade had more to do with interest in Tiger Woods than in the game itself. It so happens that I’ve been getting under their skin for just as long. The… Read more.
I am not a TV critic. And, unlike many on social media, I have no financial interest in recommending anything on this blog. But I watched ESPN’s 30 for 30: Slaying the Badger on Tuesday night. It glorifies and vindicates Greg Lemond. He, of course, is best known as the canary who sounded alarms about cyclists like Lance Armstrong using… Read more.
I feel obliged to begin by confessing that, when it came to reading the works of white authors in Apartheid South Africa, my interest did not extend much beyond those of Athol Fugard. No doubt this is because Fugard didn’t just write provocative, anti-Apartheid plays (like his pioneering Blood Knot in 1961); he also defied… Read more.
Just two years ago, a phone-hacking scandal seemed to be metastasizing within the worldwide conglomerate of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. As things turned out, he excised it by closing down his oldest and most profitable tabloid, The News of the World, whose editor was sentenced just weeks ago to 18 months in prison for his… Read more.
Oscar Pistorius was in an altercation at an upmarket nightclub over the weekend, his family said Tuesday… Regardless of who started the argument, the weekend episode focuses fresh attention on the disputed character of Pistorius, a globally recognized athlete who is on trial for murder after he fatally shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through a closed… Read more.
From the outset of the crisis in Ukraine, I’ve been exhorting European leaders to demonstrate that they’ve learned from the catastrophic consequences that followed their predecessors’ continual appeasement of Adolf Hitler. These European quislings insist that sanctions would amount to cutting off the nose to spite the face — not only because they conduct so… Read more.
