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I have written many commentaries denouncing Edward Snowden as more traitor than hero for leaking NSA secrets. Here are illustrative excerpts from two of them. From “Judge Ruling on NSA Spying…,” December 18, 2013. __________________ I too would be championing Snowden’s professed cause if he had taken his treasure trove of NSA secrets to a… Read more.
Frankly, I haven’t experienced such scripted boredom since my classes in Organic Chemistry thirty-something years ago. So much was so wrong about last night’s broadcast that I shan’t dignify any of it with a comment. Except that I feel constrained to lament the way digital voice enhancements are doing to music what digital image enhancements… Read more.
For years, anchor Brian Williams has been regaling not just family and friends, but viewers of his top-rated NBC Nightly News over the years with brazen brazen lies about derring-dos throughout his career. They often centered on life-and-death adventures he “experienced” reporting everywhere from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina to Iraq during the Gulf War. Scrambling… Read more.
Tiger Woods reveled in the media fanfare that occasioned his return to the PGA tour. In fact, he waxed even more triumphal during his pre-tournament press conference last week than Tom Brady did during his post-Super Bowl press conference this week … after winning the Super Bowl! Specifically, Tiger regaled reporters not only about feeling… Read more.
To Kill a Mockingbird is Harper Lee’s classic 1960 novel about racism and criminal justice in early twentieth-century America. I enjoyed reading it more than any other required reading in high school. And I don’t mind admitting that I found the 1962 film adaptation even more enjoyable; so much so that I’ve watched it over and… Read more.
In this digital age of viral tweets and snapchats, war crimes committed in Europe during the 1990s are no more present in public consciousness than war crimes committed in Europe during the 1940s. The decision resolved claims and counter-claims Croatia and Serbia had been hurling against each other for almost two decades: Croatia claimed that Serbia… Read more.
Haiti is fated to loom amidst the islands of the Caribbean as Africa does amidst the continents of the world – as a dark, destitute, diseased, desperate, disenfranchised, dishonest, disorganized, disassociated, dangerous and, ultimately, dysfunctional mess… And, even though white foreign faces appear as evil forces from time to time, black indigenous faces (like those… Read more.
Who says cheaters never prosper…? For the record, here is an excerpt from “NFL Conference Championship,” January 20, 2015, which explains my pick. ____________________ I’ll be routing for the Seahawks! Primarily because, despite being defending champions, they are the underdogs; and I am psychologically disposed to champion the underdog. Indeed, that Wilson, the Seahawks’ relatively small… Read more.
