Here in part is what I wrote months ago in “Covid Vaccine: Fear Not Blacks, a Black Woman Developed It,” December 12, 2020: ________ The legacy of racism in America manifests in many cruel ways. And sometimes the cruelty is replete with irony. Case in point is the racist way the US government treated Blacks… Read more.
Archives for April 2021
Podcast: NCAA Basketball Displays More Sexism than Talent. (#BoycottBeijingOlympics?)
Episode 28: Men’s Game Is Vertical; Women’s Is Horizontal. Which Do You Think is Fore Fun? Listen.
Philip, Prince Consort Extraordinaire, Is Dead
I am an ardent anti-monarchist. But the purportedly chauvinistic Philip put a public face on feminism long before its modern wave became a movement. I eulogize him for doing so with dignity and inimitable charm. Indeed, I saw no contradiction in hailing Philip and Elizabeth II on the occasion of their diamond wedding anniversary. I… Read more.
Treated Like Pariahs in America, Fox-News Murdochs Flee to Australia
I occasionally have cause to wonder if my persuasiveness and clairvoyance are not greater than I realize. Case in point, Rupert Murdoch is a naturalized American. But I’ve argued for years that he seems more hell-bent on doing everything to destroy this country from the inside than Vladimir Putin is on doing so from the… Read more.
Chauvin Prosecutors Are No ‘Dream Team.’ But Their Witnesses Are From Central Casting.
Have you been keeping track of the prosecutors in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis cop who kneed George Floyd to death so infamously? You’d be forgiven the impression that they’re trying to emulate the “Dream Team” who defended O.J. Simpson … so infamously. I will stipulate that each prosecutor is performing well… Read more.
Stanford Edges Arizona to Win Women’s Basketball Title. Relocate (Don’t Boycott) Beijing 2022 Olympics!
Organizers hype the annual NCAA Division 1 women’s and men’s basketball tournaments as “March Madness.” They do so to exploit “the thrill of victory and agony of defeat” inherent in watching low-seeded teams (aka Cinderellas) upset top-seeded ones — often with buzzer-beating hail marys. Unfortunately, these tournaments rarely live up to the hype, respectively. Sure… Read more.