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Putin’s Russia…
Friday, March 16, 2018 at 7:54 PM
Archives for March 2018
Stephen Hawking, the ‘Most Popular Physicist of All Time,’ Is Dead
Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 3:32 PM
He demonstrated that Einstein’s general theory of relativity implies space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes. (BBC, March 14, 2018) Ahhh, right … Truth be told, if you’re not a scientist, you’d be wise to keep any tribute to Stephen Hawking brief. Further, to avoid… Read more.
UPDATE: Britain Slaps Russia … on the Wrist for WMD Poisoning(s)
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 3:24 PM
Prime Minister May announced Britain’s retaliatory measures today. Parliament greeted them with cheers … that should have been jeers. After all, they amount to little more than the diplomatic punt I warned Putin would have just cause to mock. Those measures include: Cutting off high-level diplomatic contacts, including canceling plans for British royals to attend… Read more.
Skripal, Et Al: Russia Taunting Britain with Brazen Assassinations
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 2:43 PM
President Vladimir Putin shocked the world in 2006 when he ordered a hit on former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. The shock was not that he ordered it, but that he had it done on British soil. After all, this was right under the noses of the then home secretary, Theresa May, and vaunted Scotland Yard… Read more.
Holocaust Museum Rescinds Aung San Sui Kyi’s Award…
Monday, March 12, 2018 at 11:21 AM
Other institutions should do the same; governments should boycott her country, Myanmar. I was in the vanguard of those denouncing Aung San Sui Kyi, the Nobel Peace Laureate, for her complicity in Myanmar’s genocide against the Rohingyas. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find any Western commentator who did so publicly before I did here:… Read more.
Stormy is not the only one who sold herself to Trump – complete with NDAs, evidently
Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 8:47 AM
Michael Cohen, a lawyer for Donald Trump, arranged a $130,000 hush money payment to the pornographic film star known as Stormy Daniels in the closing days of the 2016 presidential campaign. The payment was to stop Daniels from speaking out about an alleged affair she’d had with Trump shortly after Melania Trump, his third wife,… Read more.
Trump & Kim Agree to Hook Up Reality-TV Style
Friday, March 9, 2018 at 8:46 AM
President Trump has agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for talks by the end of May, an extraordinary development following months of heightened nuclear tension during which the two leaders exchanged frequent military threats and insults. (Washington Post, March 8, 2018) This had everyone in Washington expressing shock and consternation yesterday;… Read more.
Female James Bond Is Just a Cinematic Perversion of Stockholm Syndrome
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 7:37 AM
The topic of a female playing James Bond has been trending like a bop bag over the past few years. No less a trendsetter than Vogue even ran a feature in its July 2017 issue hailing the prospect. Notably, it included myriad suggestions to sexually reassign Bond – from Jane, Jasmine, or plain J as… Read more.
And the Oscar goes to…
Monday, March 5, 2018 at 7:43 AM
Actually, the controversy surrounding Ryan Seacrest nearly upstaged the show. Therefore, I would be remiss not to revisit it – even if only to share this update. In my original commentary, I urged him to do the sensible and honorable thing and bow out of conducting his annual red-carpet interviews. But I readily noted that… Read more.
The Oscars: My Picks
Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 8:42 AM
With all due respect to critics and members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Academy), how much a film makes, not whether it wins an Oscar, is the generally recognized measure of its success. Especially considering that winning an Oscar is more the result of crass political campaigning than any assessment of… Read more.