On Monday, President Biden was caught on a hot mic calling the White House correspondent for Fox News a “stupid son of a bitch.” Within hours, in a very un-Trumpian manner, he called that correspondent and offered a personal apology. But it seems he was still apologizing on Tuesday. Because only that explains the way… Read more.
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How Do You Spell Karma? I Spell It: R-O-D-G-E-R-S!
No doubt you’ve heard all kinds of sports commentators waxing euphoric about last weekend producing the best four playoff games in NFL history. Here is how the dean of football writers, Peter King, reported his take for NBC Sports yesterday morning: _________ In 25 hours on the greatest playoff weekend in the 102-year history of… Read more.
Podcast: MLK Has His Day. But Frederick Douglass Is the Greatest American Ever…
Episode 62: Forget Voting Rights. Prepare to Fight the Civil War 2.0 Whites Denying Them Have Been Asking For… Related commentaries: voting rights… MLK Day… Listen.
Traveling Has Always Been a Crapshoot. But Now Every Flight’s a Friggin’ Gamble…
Any frequent flier will tell you that nothing characterizes the “new normal” quite like flight cancellations and delays. Because even if you take off, there’s a good bet some anti-masker is going to disrupt your flight en route … or worse: A female first-class passenger whose refusal to wear a mask saw an American Airlines… Read more.
Pope Benedict Accused of Covering Up Child Sex Abuse Cases… No Sh*t!
Forgive my French. But are you surprised by this: According to law firm Westphal Spilker Wastl (WSW), which conducted the investigation, Benedict failed to prevent abuse of minors during his tenure as archbishop of Munich and Freising from 1977 to 1982. ‘In a total of four cases, we reached a consensus there was a failure to act,’… Read more.
Russian Chess Grandmaster Kasparov Ridicules Washington on Putin’s Intent re Ukraine …
Chess grandmaster -cum- political dissident Garry Kasparov is generally recognized as every bit the authority on Russia today that political dissident Andrey Sakharov was on the old Soviet Union. Therefore, when Kasparov speaks about Vladimir Putin’s maneuvers, everyone in Washington listens. No doubt this was the case last week when Kasparov made a rare appearance… Read more.
A Dream Deferred? No, America Was Never America to Blacks…
No doubt we are all familiar with the dream Martin Luther King Jr had for his four little children. But nothing betrays what a nightmare that dream has become quite like his namesake, MLK III, being all over TV last week damning two white Democratic senators to hell for blocking the latest efforts to enact… Read more.
Podcast: Racism and Rigging Canceled the Golden Globes …
Episode 61: But Racism and Rigging Are Worse with the Oscars. So… Related commentaries: dissing grammys… Oscars… Listen.
Manchin and Sinema Double Cross Democrats to Save Democracy…?
Members of the Democratic Caucus insisted on linking passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill not just with the Build Back Better bill, which focuses on welfare programs and climate change, but also with the Freedom to Vote Act and The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, both of which focus on protecting voting rights (for… Read more.
This Puts My (and Perhaps Your) Covid Brain Fog Into Perspective…
Related commentaries: my Covid brain fog… Read more.