Alas, earthquakes, coups, floods, famine, tribal warfare, corruption, etc. all just seem part of the African game of dysfunction… Read more.
Morocco Earthquake and Libya Flood
Sunday, September 17, 2023 at 7:14 AM
Archives for 2023
MAGA Republicans Impeaching Biden and Indicting Hunter
Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 8:18 PM
Two days ago, MAGA Republicans announced their intent to impeach President Biden. Today, a Republican special counsel announced his intent to prosecute Biden’s son, Hunter. Trumped-up charges fueled the announcement in each case. That’s self-evident. Why Republicans are impeaching Biden House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., announced Tuesday that Republicans in the lower chamber are launching an impeachment inquiry into President… Read more.
Washington Post: from Crooked Nixon to Fabulist Delvey?
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 6:17 AM
Post falls from Nixon to Delvey The Washington Post is famous for publishing stories that forced crooked President Richard Nixon to resign. But today, it published a story on ex-con Anna Delvey that crystallizes the decline of journalism. It ran under the headline: Anna Delvey’s ankle bracelet means New York Fashion Week came to her: The fabulist… Read more.
9/11: What Price Retribution?
Monday, September 11, 2023 at 6:49 AM
The Roman Empire pioneered war as a march of folly. And America is just the latest one to follow Rome’s primrose path. Only that explains it trying to build Afghanistan in its Jeffersonian image. Meanwhile, 9/11 commemorations have become more like boring, ritualized Church services than the solemn occasions they once were. Read more.
Coco Gauff Wins US Open
Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 9:40 PM
‘Call Me Coco Champion’ I couldn’t have been happier or prouder this afternoon as I watched 19-year-old Coco Gauff win her first Grand Slam at the US Open. It was merely a matter of time before Coco Gauff won a Grand Slam title. … Gauff defeated Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus on Saturday, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, shrugging off… Read more.
G20 Summit India: More About Schmoozing Than Anything Else
Friday, September 8, 2023 at 9:30 PM
I’ve argued for years that annual G20 summits are much ado about nothing. But I’ve always recognized their one politically redeeming value. That used to be the opportunity for the world’s political power brokers to forge collegial relationships. Even that illusion has crumbled. G20 Summit India President Putin is AWOL. But he has been for years. This year, Russia’s genocidal… Read more.
Polls Show Biden and Trump in a Dead Heat. Don’t Be Like Ginsburg, Biden. Retire Now!
Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 12:50 PM
I was in the vanguard of those calling for President Biden to announce he will not seek reelection. Yes, I cited prevailing concerns about his age. He’s 80. But I also noted back then that, among other things, he promised he’d serve only one term – as a transitional president; he risked the backlash that befell… Read more.
North Korea Is Meeting Russia to Supply Weapons from China
Tuesday, September 5, 2023 at 6:52 PM
North Korea supplying Russia Chinese weapons The X factor in the war in Ukraine is whether China will end up supplying weapons to Russia the way the US is supplying them to Ukraine. I submit that China will not. But it faces an abiding dilemma: China has a geostrategic interest in seeing Russia prevail. But it fears doing… Read more.
Opioids like Fentanyl Have Nothing on Social Media like TikTok
Sunday, September 3, 2023 at 7:09 AM
We’re doomed... Read more.
Paris Jackson Thinks She’s Black
Friday, September 1, 2023 at 7:32 PM
Black Michael Jackson took extreme measures to look White. Yet he convinced his White daughter Paris that she is Black. Sick. Paris may identify as Black, but she’s White But if men can identify as women, surely Whites can identify as Blacks? Asking for a friend. No, really, Rachel Dolezal. Except that Paris’s confusion is as mental as it is racial. Discussing the matter with Rolling Stone magazine in… Read more.