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A severe drought coupled with the human-induced climate crisis has sparked a fire season that has already seen more than three times as much land burned in California this year than during the same time span last year, officials said. The state recorded its worst fire season in 2020, with around 4.1 million estimated acres… Read more.
Given Brexit, it’s arguable that England has not suffered a more symbolic defeat since the Norman Conquest than the one Italy handed it today. Two soccer-mad nations faced each other, and one blinked. Italy bested England in the final of the Euro 2020 soccer tournament Sunday in London. The winner was determined by a penalty… Read more.
A grifter is as a grifter does. And so Donald J. Trump, the former, twice-impeached president of the United States, is doing this: Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday filed proposed class-action lawsuits targeting Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey, as well as YouTube and its parent company’s… Read more.
America is experiencing the spasms of an increasingly kinetic (second) civil war. So think whatever you will of Russian ransomware attacks and Chinese rhetorical bullying. The only things Americans have to fear are Americans themselves. And “the culture wars” now raging over things like Critical Race Theory and the National Anthem should be far from… Read more.
Episode 39: Protesting Gay Cruises May Turn Some Countries into Taliban Paradise Related commentaries: gay cruises… gay marriages… podcast: easter rituals… Listen.
A few months ago, AOC and her (expanded) Squad were all over TV and social media appealing to Justice Stephen Breyer to retire – to save American Democracy and to seal his judicial legacy. But it appears either uncertainty or frustration has gotten the better of them. Because, as Spectrum News NY 1 reported on… Read more.
I was already on record expressing dismay about Bill Cosby’s relatively lenient sentence. I refer you in this regard to “Cosby Gets 3-10 Years. He Got Off Easy.” September 25, 2018. Now comes this – courtesy of Wednesday’s edition of The New York Times: __________ Bill Cosby was released from prison Wednesday after the Pennsylvania… Read more.
