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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.
Washington was abuzz last year with predictions of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s imminent ouster. But here in part is how I pooh-poohed those predictions in “Maduro Defying (and May Outlast) Trump, Just Like Assad Did Obama (and Castro Did Kennedy),” May 6, 2019: ____________________ Trump would have you believe that [opposition leader] Juan Guaidó is… Read more.
I’ve been lamenting the normalization of apocalyptic wildfires for years in commentaries like “Wildfire Redux: California Burning … Again,” October 25, 2007, “Texas Is Burning,” September 7, 2011,” and “California Burning: ‘The New Normal’?” August 2, 2018. More to the point, in “Wildfires Rivaling Hurricanes,” October 10, 2017, I alluded to the way climate change… Read more.
President Trump has spent much of his presidency maligning US intelligence agencies as corrupt and incompetent – often in open and notorious ways. But he has proven time and again that he is immune to charges of hypocrisy. Only that explains him citing intelligence gathered by those very agencies to justify this: US President Donald… Read more.
