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I find it pathetic when relatively obscure people say outrageous or offensive things just to generate media “buzz.” This, of course, is standard fare on Twitter. Even more pathetic, though, is when social and mainstream media lap it up like Pavlovian dogs, causing that outrageous and offensive blather to go “viral.” I suspect this tail-wagging-the-dog… Read more.
I am on record declaring my belief that Oscar Pistorius is “as guilty as sin,” and predicting that Judge Masipa would sentence him to seven years in prison (after weighing all mitigating and aggravating factors). Well, today was judgment day for the disgraced Paralympian. Before commenting any further, however, I feel constrained to note that many commentators… Read more.
No matter how keen the editing, typos have a way of slipping into published books. Acclaimed authors like Tom Wolfe, Henry Miller, and Kurt Vonnegut — whose books have the dubious distinction of appearing on the dreaded “Corrigenda List of Book Errata” — know this all too well. Therefore, please forgive me if you found/find… Read more.
Thousands of people go missing in the United States each year and many are never heard from again. (ABC News, May 8, 2013) Given the above, only God knows why searching for a chosen few becomes a media cause celebre. Hell, eight women went missing in the last five years in the same area of… Read more.
Today the five conservative justices of the Supreme Court upheld a Texas voter identification law, which will likely make it impossible for as many as 600,000 Black and Latino voters to participate in next month’s midterm elections. I concur with the Court’s ruling; the four liberal justices dissented. ‘The greatest threat to public confidence in elections… Read more.
A gay cabal in the Vatican continues to indulge and cover up the sexual exploits of gay priests, including abuse by pedophiles. (“The Pope Comes to America,” The iPINIONS Journal, April 16, 2008) Facing outrage from traditional Catholics, top clergy at a Vatican meeting on Thursday altered a document meant to guide future outreach to… Read more.
Thus spoke anchor Shepard Smith … of FOX News no less. His pleading was so warranted because, given the media coverage, one could be forgiven for fearing that Ebola has already become such a contagion, its devastation could rival that of the 1918 Spanish Flu, which killed as many as 50 million people. Frankly, I can… Read more.
My respect for the spousal role Winnie Mandela played in South Africa’s “long walk to freedom” has always been undermined by my contempt for the political role she played, which too often had her behaving more like the matriarch of a crime family than the long-suffering mother of an oppressed people. But even I was… Read more.
Putin lords over a kleptocracy that has fleeced public funds on such an unprecedented scale, it makes the kleptocracies African despots lord over seem petty. (“Ukraine’s (Peaceful) Orange Revolution Turns Red … with Blood,” The iPINIONS Journal, February 25, 2014) President Vladimir Putin sold the Russian people on the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi as… Read more.
The Editorial Board of the New York Times made news on Saturday, when it published a special editorial calling on President Obama to “End the U.S. Embargo on Cuba:” Scanning a map of the world must give President Obama a sinking feeling as he contemplates the dismal state of troubled bilateral relationships his administration has… Read more.
