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I’ve been railing for years against trend-setting, skeletal models strutting their dry bones on runways across the fashion world. This is why I was so heartened earlier this month when France enacted legislation to ban them from runways in Paris. Here is a little of my abiding lament: By today’s standards, former supermodels like Cindy… Read more.
MIT professor emeritus Noam Chomsky is arguably the most accomplished thinker in America, if not the world, today. Whatever one thinks of Wikipedia, it fairly describes Chomsky as an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, political commentator, social justice activist, and anarcho-syndicalist advocate. That established, Chomsky shared “his views on the current media landscape” in… Read more.
I was never a fan. But anyone who knows anything about Madonna’s singing career knows that it has always been more about theatrics than music. It speaks volumes, for example, that she won more critical acclaim for Sex, a 1992 coffee table book of soft-porn photographs, than she has for any of her albums. This… Read more.
Given media coverage of the killing last summer of Eric Garner in New York, New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, coupled with coverage of the killing last week of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina and Eric Harris in Tulsa, Oklahoma, you could be forgiven the impression that White cops think they… Read more.
It was a curious thing to see Jamaicans hailing Barack Obama on Thursday more like a returning “son of the soil” than a visiting president of the United States. Even more curious was seeing CARICOM leaders jostle like UWI students for a photo op. But don’t get me started on the way Jamaican Prime Minister… Read more.
And One Direction…? WTF! Read more.
Book review: The iPINIONS Journal – Commentaries on the Global Events of 2014 by Anthony L. Hall Not content to remind us each year in the Spring of the sometimes distressingly swift passage of time, we now have to figure out where an entire decade went to with the publication of Caribbean News Now op-ed… Read more.
The jury returned its verdict this afternoon: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 21-year-old who admitted he and his brother bombed the 2013 Boston Marathon, has been found guilty on all 30 counts against him, including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and bombing of a public place. The jury of five men and seven women… Read more.
Instead of commanding network coverage in primetime like the men’s championship, the women’s was relegated to cable last night, which guaranteed only a fraction of the viewership. TV executives wonder why they can’t get better ratings for the fledgling women’s professional league – the WNBA. Well, it might have something to do with the way… Read more.
In what was, frankly, a relatively lackluster game, Duke defeated Wisconsin 68-63 to win this year’s NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Tournament. With this national championship, their fifth since 1991, the Duke Blue Devils have officially become to NCAA Basketball what the New York Yankees are to MLB Baseball: the team we love to hate.… Read more.
