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Now she’s waking up not only with fleas, but in jail … presumably tamed for the rest of her life. Frankly, the military is only doing over in Myanmar what former President Trump tried to get the military to do here in the United States. Myanmar’s generals even parroted Trump’s canard about election fraud. Of… Read more.
China and the United States have irreconcilable differences over Taiwan. China considers Taiwan a “prodigal” province. The US vows to defend Taiwan if China invades to reclaim it for the Mainland. China vs. US over Taiwan Here is how Reuters reported yesterday on the current state of play: China toughened its language towards Taiwan last week, warning after its stepped-up… Read more.
Episode 19: I’ll See You Iraq and Katrina and Raise You PEPFAR and Michelle… Listen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Episode 18: Let Us Rejoice and Be Glad but Beware… Listen.
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.
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.
