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Harry and Meghan’s Megxit deal got the queen’s seal today. Her Majesty announced terms to enable them to withdraw from royal duties. The terms are stern. But they are as punitive as I recommended. Megxit deal gets queen’s seal Of course, scandal forced Andrew to withdraw from royal duties too. It stems from his unforgivable involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein child… Read more.
Fairy tales can come true but never for you cuz you’ve blown your part… I doubt either one of them imagined this even when they vowed for better or worse, let alone when they fantasized about living happily ever after. Related commentaries: Harry and Meghan… Read more.
I hate shopping. But I also hate that so much of retail shopping has been reduced to sitting at home, punching keyboards, and waiting (invariably for Amazon) to deliver orders in a … swoosh. And don’t get me started on the way this transformation has rendered neighborhood stores desolate memories on main streets all over… Read more.
No doubt you recall the viral video which shows Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yucking it up with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and French President Emmanuel Macron at President Trump’s expense. The occasion was a reception at the 2019 NATO summit in London. They were all laughing at the… Read more.
One of the more Orwellian features of Donald Trump’s dystopian presidency is the role Rudy Giuliani is playing. Because this former celebrated prosecutor and mayor of New York City is now playing a cross between Tom Hagan, consigliere to the “Corleone Family”, and Roy Cohn, counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy. But, as mobster capos invariably… Read more.
Yes. And that’s the way non-white voters want it. A Democratic presidential campaign field that was once touted as the most diverse in history has been whittled down to six candidates on its debate stage, all of them white. [Black congresswoman Barbara Lee] says the Democratic National Committee’s rules for determining who can participate in… Read more.
In my Sunday commentary on the Golden Globes, I noted that Oscar governors were praying to avoid nominations that would trigger another season of #OscarSoWhite memes. To be fair, though, they were not relying on prayer alone. Because Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy’s first black president, initiated A2020 in 2015 to diversify the entertainment industry… Read more.
I’ve been lobbying for years for movie awards shows to go the way of musicals on TV. And, that winners are so invariably lily white is the least of my complaints. I even attempted to put perennial complaints about #OscarSoWhite into perspective in “#OscarSoDiverse,” January 27, 2017. Granted, this attempt might now seem naïve given… Read more.
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Of course Harry and Meghan have had enough of royal duties in England. Because they’d rather be making celebrity appearances in America. Harry & Meghan Withdrawing from royal duties King Edward VIII shocked the world when he announced his abdication in 1936. Now Harry and Meghan are announcing theirs. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex… Read more.
