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Comedian Bill Maher is known for his politically incorrect schtick. He knows better than anyone that nothing guarantees viral attention in this age of social media quite like a snarky point, sick prank, or salacious photo. Moreover, it’s self-evident that the aim of most points, pranks, and photos is not to provoke enlightened thought or… Read more.
Sorting through a jury pool already exposed to the blaze of publicity over allegations against Bill Cosby, lawyers and a judge on Monday selected the first five jurors, all of them white, who will weigh whether he committed a sexual assault. The challenge of finding an impartial panel was on full display as jury selection… Read more.
With Roger Ailes still the chief operating pimp. Fox News is still reeling from the allegations of sexual harassment against Ailes and other network honchos that caused Megyn Kelly to jump ship in January. Now she’s moving on. She debuts on NBC this Sunday, and seems poised to get off with a bang. This, because… Read more.
Tiger Woods’s 2015 Mercedes-Benz showed signs of ‘fresh damage’ on the driver’s side of the vehicle when he was found asleep at the wheel [at 3 a.m. near his home in Jupiter, Florida] the morning of his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence, police records show. … Woods told police he was coming… Read more.
One of the many unseemly things about Donald Trump as president of the United States is his longing admiration for dictators. In “Hail Erdogan – Nouveau Sultan of Turkey,” April 17, 2017, I ridiculed this as his dictator envy. But even I was left stupefied as I watched him play über dictator on the world… Read more.
Remember to honor the troops, but don’t forget to curse the politicians who made dead heroes of so many of them for vainglorious causes like Vietnam, Iraq, Syria …. Read more.
Most French women are skinny. Yet even Paris is telling skinny models to fatten up. That’s saying a lot. Paris bans skinny models The fashion industry has been idolizing skinny women since the days of Twiggy. And that was the 1960s. I’ve been decrying that idolatry since I launched this blog in 2005. Except that… Read more.
Police have arrested a man in connection with the Manchester Arena bomb attack on Tuesday as [Prime Minister] Theresa May condemned the ‘sickening cowardice’ of the perpetrator. Greater Manchester police, who believe they know the identity of the bomber, detained a 23-year-old man in the south of the city in connection with the attack, which… Read more.
Roger Ailes, who shaped the images that helped elect three Republican presidents and then became a dominant, often-intimidating force in American conservative politics at the helm of Fox News until he was forced out last year in a sexual harassment scandal, died on Thursday morning. … ‘Fair and balanced’ was Mr. Ailes’s defining phrase for… Read more.
Much is being made of the way the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is rolling out the red carpet for President Trump – complete with bells, whistles, and gilded displays that appeal more to a visiting Mideast king (i.e., Trump’s ego) than a US president. This might seem ironic, even self-abnegating – given Trump’s virulent anti-Muslim… Read more.
