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Dropping amidst this worldwide corona lockdown, the episodes of ESPN’s documentary on Michael Jordan played out like life-sustaining oases in a global desert. But those of its forthcoming documentary on Lance Armstrong can only play out like death-valley mirages. Lance Armstrong has admitted he thinks doping might have caused his testicular cancer and also revealed… Read more.
I know. But Abraham Lincoln’s famous warning about a house divided against itself came immediately to mind when I read this: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new unity government was sworn in Sunday, cementing a fragile political alliance with former rival Benny Gantz to end more than one year of political stalemate in the country.… Read more.
Of course, at least a hurricane is an “enemy” we can see, which fuels undying hope that we can defeat it. But, despite our best efforts against this invisible coronavirus, one gets the sense that we’re just flailing away in quicksand. Related commentaries: Hurricane Dorian… Covid-19 thread… Read more.
If it were not propagating ignorance that could kill not just the covidiots who watch but you and me too. But I feel obliged to reiterate the following from “Political Ads: Twitter, Facebook, Fox News: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. And Then There’s Google,” November 6, 2019: __________ Rupert Murdoch can fix all… Read more.
And things are getting very salty indeed. In 2012, international headlines suggested that the Vatican papers would shake the foundations of the Vatican much as the Pentagon papers did those of the Pentagon. But anyone who knew anything about papal history, or had merely seen season 1 of The Borgias, knew or should have known… Read more.
Alas, death in this time of corona is taking so many honorable people, not even the “In Memoriam” scroll at The Oscars could pay tribute to them all. Then there’s my abiding concern: When I began commenting on the deaths of famous people…, the last thing I wanted was to contribute to our culture’s perverse… Read more.
I wrote “Putin and MbS Used COVID-19 to Shutdown US Oil Producers. And Trump Was All Too Happy to Collude” a month ago today. In it I argued that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) were playing chess with American President Donald Trump – who seemed incapable even… Read more.
Kudos to Gerber for featuring and celebrating an adopted baby. But why dress her up to look a little Aunt Jemima? And don’t get me started on her (adoptive) parents being White! Black Gerber Baby Magnolia Earl, who recently celebrated her first birthday, just made history as the first adopted baby to be the Gerber company’s spokesbaby,… Read more.
Which puts a lie to Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die. No? Related commentaries: covid-19… Read more.
President Trump has been yelping all over the media recently about how China hid the outbreak of what this congenital racist calls the “Wuhan virus.” Except that you’d be forgiven for dismissing his yelps as just more lies. After all, according to The Washington Post, he has told over 18,000 lies since taking his oath… Read more.
