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I am loath to abuse my standing as the deprogrammed son of an evangelical preacher man. But I am moved by the Holy Spirit (heehee) to at least acknowledge this seminal religious trend (and this is Holy Week after all): Americans’ membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for… Read more.
Episode 26: Christians Praying Jews Convert … or Perish Listen.
Only children believe in fairy tales. Yet it took the tragic life of Princess Diana for many to realize that royalty is no fairy tale. Her son, Prince Harry, is reinforcing this realization. He’s claiming that British royals are trapped in gilded cages. And that makes their fairy-tale lives seem very grim indeed. British royals trapped… Read more.
Just last week, a (typical) white gunman allegedly sought to exorcise his demonic sexual impulses by shooting up three massage parlors in Atlanta, killing eight, including 6 Asian women. This week a (bogeyman) Muslim allegedly sought to avenge his schoolyard bullying by shooting up a supermarket in Boulder, killing 10, including a police officer. Here… Read more.
Colleges treat female athletes as second-class citizens, especially compared with their male counterparts. And one can hardly blame most female athletes for accepting it. After all, even the highly successful and celebrated women’s USA soccer team has been waging a decades-long battle for equal treatment in this respect, to no avail. Sedona Prince exposes NCAA mistreatment The stark difference… Read more.
Episode 25: They Are Not Only Boring but Rigged… Listen.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is confronting the most tumultuous moment of his three terms in office, after multiple women, some of them current or former state employees, accused him of sexual harassment or other inappropriate behavior. … Calls for Mr. Cuomo’s resignation have spread from Republicans to his fellow Democrats, and from Albany, the State… Read more.
In previous elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cast Arab voters as a peril, warning they were ‘heading to the polling stations in droves.’ He threatened two years ago to mount cameras at the polls in Arab communities — a move critics said was meant to suppress turnout — and he has disparaged elected Arab… Read more.
Ironically, I said most of what I want to about this show last year in “The Grammys: Not Only Irrelevant but Rigged?” January 26, 2020. Therefore, I will only add this: The Weeknd’s boycott might seem like the “temper tantrum” of a sore loser. Except that former Grammy chief Deborah Dugan let the cat out of… Read more.
Episode 24: Myanmar Protesters Daring Military to Give Them Liberty or Death… Listen.
