Based on court testimony, it’s evident that Britney Spears was ill-served during her nearly 14 years under conservatorship. In hindsight, it might be that she was crying out for help in her hit song, “I’m a Slave 4 U”, even before then. Of course, her fans could be forgiven for receiving it as her sexy… Read more.
Archives for November 2021
Podcast: Observing Veterans Day
Episode 54: And It’s More About Honoring Veterans than Shopping for Deals… Listen.
Trump’s Humiliation of Mitch McConnell Is, Well, By the Book…
There seems no denying that, the more Donald Trump humiliates Republican men, the more they seem to want to kiss his ass. This has been the most stupefying feature of American politics since 2016. Senator Ted Cruz infamously put a fetishistic twist on cuckoldry in this regard that is just too perverse for words. Of… Read more.
Turns Out Would-Be Jeopardy Host Is an Anti-Vaxx Nutcase: Who Is Aaron Rodgers?
Black civil rights leaders spent this year pleading with poor people (of all racial backgrounds) to get the Covid vaccine to save their lives. Unfortunately, celebrity worship in America is such that Aaron Rodgers wields more influence among those poor people than all of those Black civil rights leaders … combined. So bear that in… Read more.
Podcast: Manchin, the Manchurian Senator, Bedeviling Biden’s Agenda…
Episode 53: Frankly, Democrats Are Behaving Like SNL’s Version of The Suicide Squad or The Peanuts Gang… Related commentaries: Joe Manchin… Listen.
Leaders of all Stripes Attend Powell Memorial Service (with one Notable Exception)
Colin L. Powell was remembered for his leadership skills, his love of ABBA and Bob Marley and “his sense of humor, his insatiable curiosity and his comfort in his own skin” at a funeral Friday that drew presidents past and present, military leaders and hundreds of Washington dignitaries. Among those in attendance were Powell’s wife,… Read more.
In Charlottesville, Neo-Nazis Are Giving Self-Serving Meaning to Show Trial
From Opening Statements, it was clear to me that the Neo-Nazis intended to use their trial for the deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville as nothing more than a godsend to proselytize their racist propaganda. Here is how I decried what I thought was their manifest intent in a comment to a Daily Beast report on… Read more.
Sepp Blatter, FIFA’s Once-Untouchable Boss, Indicted on Criminal Fraud Charges
If you’re an American, you probably don’t know any more about FIFA, the international body that governs soccer, than you do about the IAEA, the international body that governs nuclear weapons. So imagine US law-enforcement authorities announcing the indictment of former MLB commissioner Bud Selig on criminal charges for fraud, criminal mismanagement and forgery, and… Read more.
Podcast: Barbados Becomes a Republic…
Episode 52: But It Retains Many Vestiges of British Colonialism… Related episode: assassination of Jovenel Moïse… Listen.