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None of my siblings or close friends enjoy car racing. Therefore, I had no one to celebrate with yesterday after Lewis Hamilton clinched his third Formula One (F1) championship, especially given that it played out against NFL Sunday. In fact, one of my NFL-loving brothers dismissed my jubilant attempts to convey the significance of Hamilton’s achievement… Read more.
Not surprisingly, Trumped-up Republicans reacted by calling for a wall between the United States and Canada too. Just kidding. [Emulating Obama] Justin Trudeau got help from youth, new voters, social media in election win… Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau outpaced his competition on Twitter on Election Day as well; there were more than 150,000 tweets to… Read more.
And here it is: “Hello,” the first new music from Adele in over three years. The single is a straightforward ballad that sends Adele’s voice flying. Following up on her 2011 album 21, an extraordinary tribute to a dead relationship with a still-beating heart, “Hello” examines doomed love… Even as she laments the end, “Hello” knows… Read more.
Prince Jackson is admitting it … there’s a chance Michael Jackson isn’t his biological parent… This started when someone trolled Prince on Twitter by saying, ‘everyone knows you are a Rowe-Klein NOT A Jackson!’ (TMZ, October 22, 2015) You knew this day would come, right? Of course, any Michael Jackson fan will recognize the allusion… Read more.
‘Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews,’ Netanyahu said [in a speech to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem late on Tuesday]. ‘And Haj Amin al-Husseini [the then Mufti of Jerusalem] went to Hitler and said, ”If you expel them, they’ll all come here.” “So what… Read more.
In “G8 Summit ’05: Rich Nations Pledge (again) to End Poverty,” May 27, 2005, I decried the way extreme poverty persisted in developing countries, despite global pledges and efforts to end it. Here is an excerpt. __________________ It is a glaring indictment of our shared humanity that rich countries revel in obscene wealth, while poor… Read more.
Comedian Larry David debuted his impersonation of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on last weekend’s edition Saturday Night Live (SNL). I’ve seen the viral clip of his performance. He was hysterical. But the media worship was such that he could be forgiven for feeling like the king of comedy. Never mind that David sounded more… Read more.
Almost four years ago, President Obama announced a provisional agreement to settle longstanding claims of institutional racism, which Black (and Indian) farmers filed against the federal government. This announcement made me as proud of Obama as I was pleased for the farmers. Here, in part, is how I commented in “Government Finally Settles Billion-Dollar Discrimination… Read more.
Playboy is covering up. For 62 years, the iconic adult magazine has fueled sexual fantasies with glossy fold-out spreads of fully nude women. Furtively hidden in adolescent bedrooms and defiantly plastered on college dorm room walls, it helped spark America’s sexual revolution and tested the country’s acceptance of photos that in an earlier day passed for pornography. Now, however, in… Read more.
Dear Reader, We’re Closing Comments The Independent Online is South Africa’s “premier online news source.” The above is how it headlined a transformative open letter to readers yesterday, becoming the latest on a growing list of news sites and weblogs banning comments. Here, in part, is how the editor explained IOL’s reason for doing so:… Read more.
