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I feel obliged to begin with this prevailing disclosure about beauty pageants: It’s dismaying enough that women are still blithely competing in beauty pageants that should only appeal to 1950s male chauvinist pigs. But it’s downright pitiful that they are perpetuating the notion that the only woman worth crowning is a beauty who pretends she… Read more.
It’s demeaning enough that President Trump plans to travel all the way to Singapore just to “get to know” the genocidal dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-un. But it seems Kim is willfully insulting Trump. For only this explains Kim making such a show of fraternizing with the genocidal dictator of Syria, Bashir al-Assad, with… Read more.
Natural disasters, like droughts and pandemics, are commonplace in Africa. As I write this, for example, drought is decimating East and Southern Africa while a new Ebola outbreak is raging across the Democratic Republic of Congo and threatening to spread beyond. Hell, you’d be forgiven for thinking that God is continually unleashing plagues to get… Read more.
Kim Kardashian West met with President Donald Trump and other officials, including senior adviser Jared Kushner, at the White House on Wednesday to discuss prison reform. ‘It is our hope that the President will grant clemency to Ms. Alice Marie Johnson who is serving a life sentence for a first-time, non-violent drug offense,’ Kardashian West… Read more.
Nobody should be surprised that Trump delivered his to Kim by reading it aloud on TV. After all, this P.T. Barnum of politics is all about the show — the consequences be damned. But it’s refreshing to see that Kim is delivering his to Trump by hand. Never mind that this is what any sensible… Read more.
No doubt you recall the mystery that began when Malaysian flight MH370 vanished into thin air en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. It had 239 people on board. Truth be told, I felt certain international search teams would find it. The technology that enabled deep-sea explorers to find the wreck… Read more.
The media hype that occasioned Danica Patrick’s debut on the IndyCar circuit rivaled that which occasioned Tiger Woods’s on the PGA tour. Except that, where Woods wasted no time living up to his hype, Patrick seemed fated never to live up to hers. In fact, I found her results so pedestrian that, just three years… Read more.
I am going canoeing to be at one with nature, while meditating on the requirements for a purposeful life. But cultural brainwashing is such that you’d be forgiven for commemorating this solemn occasion by going shopping or to the beach. Still, remember to honor the troops whose “ultimate sacrifice” made this perverse holiday possible. And… Read more.
Here in part is the plainly hypocritical way President Trump weaseled out of the nuclear summit with President Kim: Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting. (CNN, May 24, 2018) Indeed, just weeks ago,… Read more.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is continuing his smorgasbord of destabilizing activities in Western countries. The United States and European Union implemented economic sanctions that were supposed to humble and hobble him. But they appear to have only enraged and emboldened him. No doubt this is because, for nearly 20 years, Putin has lorded over a… Read more.
