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Le Carré was born David Cornwell in 1931 and began his career working for the British intelligence service before he started to write complex tales of his own. They included Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. (HuffPost, December 14, 2020) You’d be forgiven for thinking that John le… Read more.
Following years of protests from fans and Native American groups, the Cleveland Indians have decided to change their team name, moving away from a moniker that has long been criticized as racist, three people familiar with the decision said Sunday. The move follows a decision by the Washington Football Team of the N.F.L. in July… Read more.
Episode 13: Even with Bread Lines at Home, American Charity Continues Abroad… Listen.
The legacy of racism in America manifests in many cruel ways. And sometimes the cruelty is replete with irony. Case in point is the racist way the US government treated Blacks for its infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Because this has Blacks now fearing its Covid vaccine, which could save their lives. The Tuskegee Study of… Read more.
No doubt you recall how Donald Trump spent much of the 2016 presidential campaign playing the (liberal) media for useful idiots. This, by getting them to report and comment on Hillary’s hacked e-mails as if they were more incriminating than Nixon’s tapes. As it happened, I spent much of that campaign trying to get my… Read more.
On Sunday, California became the first state to (re)issue sweeping stay-at-home and lockdown orders. This, in a Groundhog-Day effort to fight the second wave of Covid-19, which is breaking out across the country. The vast region of Southern California, much of the San Francisco Bay area and a large swath of the Central Valley are… Read more.
Episode 12: Obama and Trump Bungled Venezuela and Syria, Respectively. Lame Duck Trump. Listen.
They would support him even if he shot someone to death on 5th Avenue in broad daylight. But even he could not have imagined they’d turn out to be so stupid, they would Risk their own lives to attend his maskless rallies in the midst of this Covid pandemic; Refuse to take a Covid vaccine… Read more.
Much like winning an Oscar, winning a Grammy is more the result of crass political campaigning (or music-industry cronyism) than any assessment of artistic achievement. Only this explains the outrageous “snubs” that litter Grammy history, notably in 1984, when The Police’s “Every Breath You Take” bested Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” and “Billie Jean”; 1985, when… Read more.
