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The media have provided saturation coverage over the past few weeks of the endemic corruption that has attended the selection process for the FIFA Men’s World Cup. Media executives would probably cite – without a hint of irony – the reputational damage this coverage caused as their reason for providing such scant coverage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, which… Read more.
You know you’ve come a long way, baby, when you can say there’s not a single person in your circle of friends who smokes … cigarettes. I’m always taken aback these days when I happen upon someone inhaling suicidal cigarette smoke anywhere in the United States. Frankly, I don’t know why it’s any more socially… Read more.
You can be forgiven the impression that America is experiencing an epidemic of violent confrontations between Black kids and White cops. Their latest confrontation, which went viral on Sunday, had White cops hurling profanities, and one of them even drawing his gun, just to disperse Black kids at an unruly pool party near Dallas, Texas.… Read more.
I feel obliged to begin with an excerpt from “National Mourning for a Horse? Puh-leeese,” January 31, 2007. ___________________ I don’t get the emotional attachment so many people have to this horse. Then again, it probably takes understanding the psychology at play in Peter Shaffer’s Equus to get it. But I think horse racing has all… Read more.
Shame on you if the analogous joke here escapes you. Read more.
White Canadians often speak of the legacy of White supremacy in America with such self-righteousness, you’d never know they treated Native Canadians the way White Americans treated Native Americans. Here, for example, is an excerpt from “Delusions on Matters of Race Are Coming Home to Roost in Canada,” October 3, 2006, in which I cited… Read more.
I sounded real alarms about private companies spying years before Edward Snowden sounded false alarms about government spying. . Here, for example, is what I wrote in “Beware: Google Declares ‘Nothing’s Private,’” December 8, 2009. ____________________ You’d better pray you are never prosecuted or sued for anything. Because not only Big Brother but even your civil… Read more.
In my original commentary, “FIFA: Soccer’s Federation of Imbeciles, Fraudsters & Autocrats,” May 29, 2015, I stated my belief that Blatter is the prime suspect in the FBI’s ongoing investigation. But it’s standing operating procedure in major bribery/racketeering/corruption cases for agents to arrest the capos and consigliere, and get them to sing like canaries for… Read more.
The May 30 edition of The Economist leads with a provocative, informative and instructive article, heralding “social change” the like of which the world has not seen since decolonization and desegregation during the 1960s. The change in this case referred to the way women are poised to dominate the ranks of traditional professions; so much… Read more.
