Welcome! This is an unapologetic, agenda-free zone. Just commentaries on current events that’ll move you to think, laugh, rage, and even cry.
I’m on record decrying much of social media as little more than a virtual bordello of fame whores. A selfie is not just about adoring one’s own reflection like Narcissus; it’s also about taking a picture of that reflection to publish for all the world to see. But am I the only one who rues… Read more.
A Russian lawyer for Edward Snowden said on Tuesday the fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of the government’s mass surveillance programs was working with American and German lawyers to return home. ‘I won’t keep it secret … he wants to return back home.’ (Reuters, March 3, 2015) Well, that didn’t take… Read more.
You would be hard-pressed to find a non-African (or even a non-Zimbabwean) who has decried Robert Mugabe’s rule more than I. Here are two illustrative excerpts from the many commentaries I’ve written on point. __________________ From “Zimbabweans Pray for Liberation from their Liberator – Robert Mugabe,” March 29, 2005. The Mugabe government of Zimbabwe is the most corrupt,… Read more.
It’s arguable that an opposition leader in Putin-controlled Russia is an even more endangered species than a Christian leader in ISIL-controlled Syria. But the best way to understand why opposition leaders in Russia invariably end up in prison, hopelessly marginalized, or dead is to understand that Putin eliminates them for the same reason the scorpion… Read more.
