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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.
I am a social libertarian. Therefore, I couldn’t care any less how women choose to present themselves in public or make fools of themselves on social media. But I have one abiding pet peeve: women who rely on “transformative” beauty tricks to make themselves feel good, impress other women, or attract shallow men. Here, for… Read more.
The United States has spotted a pair of mobile artillery vehicles on an artificial island that China is building in the South China Sea, a resource-rich stretch of ocean crossed by vital shipping lanes, American officials said. China’s construction program on previously uninhabited atolls and reefs in the Spratly Islands has already raised alarm and… Read more.
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is soccer’s international governing body – whose hallowed mission is to govern “For the Good of the Game.” This is why the scandal that has it reeling these days reeks of such betrayal of trust. FIFA president Sepp Blatter has told an emergency meeting of football’s governing body… Read more.
