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Just weeks ago, I commented on how President Trump was making it impossible for Attorney General William Barr to do his bidding, despite Barr’s obvious interest in doing so. The problem was that Trump kept telling everyone what he should have been telling no one. In that case, it was that he wanted Barr to… Read more.
I planned to eschew publishing any more commentaries until after Election Day on Tuesday, November 3. But, given these latest terrorist attacks, I feel obliged to share this update to “In Republishing Images of the Prophet Muhammad, ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Shows Islamophobic Arrogance, Not Democratic Defiance,” September 2, 2020: A knife-wielding attacker shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ beheaded… Read more.
Episode 7: US Presidential Election Listen.
“Boy, time sure flies when every day is joyless and exactly the same.” Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. — Jean-Paul Sartre Of course, being and monotonousness will be “joyless… Read more.
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd, protesters around the world marched in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protesters in the United States. But it was always understood that protesters in predominantly white countries, especially in Europe, were also marching to protest police brutality against local Blacks. Overlooked, however, was that protesters in… Read more.
Studies show that people in the Bible Belt watch the most porn. And church sex scandals are damning every religious denomination in America. The contradiction and hypocrisy are self-evident. But the tug and correlation between the pulpit and porn speak volumes. Latest church sex scandals The child sex abuse scandal now defines the Catholic Church.… Read more.
The New Yorker writer and CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin didn’t just expose himself during a Zoom work meeting — he was allegedly caught masturbating in the call with some of magazine’s biggest names and has now been suspended from the publication. ‘I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera … I thought I… Read more.
Truth be told, this title does not do justice to the groundhog-day nature of what has become the New York Yankees’ fall classic of futility. But you don’t have to be a baseball fan to marvel at this curious thing: Never before in the field of professional sports has a team paid so much to… Read more.
Episode 6: Social Media… Listen.
Today’s title assumes you recall the viral spectacle Charlie Sheen made of himself in 2011. This featured a booze and drug-fueled binge that not only got him fired from Two and a Half Men, then the top-rated show on TV, but also led him on a nationwide tour (with his favorite prostitutes in tow). He… Read more.
