Episode 19: I’ll See You Iraq and Katrina and Raise You PEPFAR and Michelle… Listen.
Podcast: President Bush Has Done More for Africa than Any Other World Leader
Sunday, January 31, 2021 at 6:04 AM
Archives for January 2021
Stanley Tucci Is No Anthony Bourdain But He’s Making CNN Look Like Fox News…
Saturday, January 30, 2021 at 7:17 AM
WTF are CNN and Stanley Tucci thinking with their tone-deaf promos for Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy. It’s bad enough that Tucci seems an embarrassing substitute for Anthony Bourdain. But the only thing worse than making a mockery of people starving and even dying under Covid-19 restrictions is eating like a celebrated schmuck in the… Read more.
Pam Anderson Is Latest Celebrity Seeking Attention by Vowing to Quit Social Media
Friday, January 29, 2021 at 7:53 AM
Celebrities vow to quit social media As clickbait goes, celebrities posting tweets pledging to quit social media takes the cake. Pam Anderson is the latest to take the pledge. But in seeking more fame, she just looks lame. Of course, social media platforms are rife with social malignancies, physical dangers, and moral hazards. Thus, if celebrities made public service… Read more.
In Putting Tubman on $20 Bill, Biden Rebuking Trump, Upstaging Obama
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 6:33 AM
The Biden administration is accelerating steps to feature abolitionist hero Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, a change announced during the Obama administration that stalled under President Donald Trump. ‘We’re exploring ways to speed up that effort,’ White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Monday. Psaki said it’s important the nation’s currency ‘reflect the history… Read more.
NFL Conference Championship Sunday: Hail, Buccaneers..? (Oh Right, Brady); Hail, Chiefs!
Monday, January 25, 2021 at 8:51 AM
Casual Football fans think Super Bowl Sunday is the most exciting day of the NFL season. But real fans know that day is conference championship Sunday. (“NFL’s Historic Conference Championship Sunday,” The iPINIONS Journal, January 22, 2007) Sure enough, this NFC championship game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Green Bay Packers lived up to… Read more.
Podcast: The Inauguration of Joe Biden and Restoration of America
Sunday, January 24, 2021 at 6:23 AM
Episode 18: Let Us Rejoice and Be Glad but Beware… Listen.
Rupert Murdoch, the Wizard of Trumpism
Saturday, January 23, 2021 at 8:37 AM
I’ve been waging a quixotic campaign for years to out Rupert Murdoch as a greater danger to democracy than Donald Trump. Here, for example is what I wrote in this respect in “Political Ads: Twitter, Facebook, Fox News: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. And Then There’s Google,” November 6, 2019: __________ Rupert Murdoch… Read more.
Trump Legacy: White House-cum-White Trash!
Friday, January 22, 2021 at 7:06 AM
Here in part is how I reiterated the self-conscious disdain Trump has for his followers in “Aping Notorious Cult Leader Jim Jones, Trump Invites His MAGA Followers to One Last Rally…?” January 6, 2020: _________ His MAGA followers probably thought he was joking when he said during one campaign rally last year that he would… Read more.
The Inauguration of Joe Biden and Restoration of America
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 12:47 PM
You probably thought this day would never come. Therefore, as the son of a preacher man, I feel obliged to intone that familiar Psalm: This is the day the lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. (118:24) Amen. We made it. And this, despite what might have seemed like four years… Read more.
Observing MLK Day
Monday, January 18, 2021 at 6:39 AM
If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he would marvel at America’s schizophrenic march towards the Promised Land of his famous dream. After all, America elected its first Black man as president in 2008; elected its first Black woman as vice president in 2020; and, even closer to his home and heart, elected… Read more.