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In a stunning result, Michaela Shiffrin failed to successfully navigate more than a handful of turns in Wednesday’s women’s slalom and was disqualified from her second race this week at the Beijing Olympics. Shiffrin, a two-time Olympic champion who was expected to contend for multiple gold medals at Beijing, had trouble in her run almost… Read more.
And nobody can deny that it has worked like a charm… Remember that purportedly incriminating call on which he was caught telling the president of Ukraine, “you need to do me a favor, though”? Or the far more incriminating one on which he was caught telling Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, “I just want to… Read more.
Episode 64: Most Exciting Games in History. But NFL Still ‘Managed Like a Plantation’…? Related commentaries: Podcast: Brady’s return… Patriots release Brady… Listen.
The prevailing view is that Whoopi Goldberg chose a Jewish stage name to curry favor with the Jews she believes hold all the power in Hollywood. But I always thought she chose it to identify with them as a fellow race of people who have been perennially oppressed by white folks. Then came this: On… Read more.
The Opening Ceremony for the Beijing 2022 Olympics gets underway today. But count me among those who will be jeering, not cheering. In fact, I was in the vanguard of those who called for a conventional boycott. Notably, The New York Times published an Op-Ed on March 15, 2021 by Sen. Mitt Romney titled “The… Read more.
Most Canadians would like to think they are more civil than their American neighbors. Except nothing betrays their thinking quite like the “aboriginal sin” that has been haunting them lately. I am referring to belated reckoning for the inferior and often dehumanizing way they treated indigenous people throughout their history. This finally forced Canadians to… Read more.
Trust me, Donald Trump, Howard Stern, and Vince McMahon have nothing on Joe Rogan when it comes to rich, savvy guys peddling raw and (often) reckless entertainment to ordinary people. And, notwithstanding giving performer Neil Young top billing, I used to like propagandist Joe Rogan. Granted, my affinity stems from his relatively wholesome days hosting… Read more.
Episode 63: Despite All Their Talk About Alleviating Poverty, The Rich Kept Getting Richer, the Poor Poorer. So… Related commentaries: Davos… Listen.
I am loath to comment on the antics and rantings of a mentally disturbed man. But when that man commands as much media attention as Kanye West does, it would be malpractice for any social critic to fail to comment. Well, that was my justification for previous commentaries like “President Obama Is Right, Kanye Is… Read more.
Last summer, when fellow progressives began heckling Justice Stephen Breyer to retire immediately, I defended him in part as follows in “Re Justice Breyer: To Retire, or Not to Retire, That Is (Not) the Question,” July 3, 2021: ________ Full disclosure, I am probably more progressive/liberal than Bernie Sanders and AOC. More to the point,… Read more.
