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Based on court testimony, it’s evident that Britney Spears was ill-served during her nearly 14 years under conservatorship. In hindsight, it might be that she was crying out for help in her hit song, “I’m a Slave 4 U”, even before then. Of course, her fans could be forgiven for receiving it as her sexy… Read more.
Episode 54: And It’s More About Honoring Veterans than Shopping for Deals… Listen.
Black civil rights leaders spent this year pleading with poor people (of all racial backgrounds) to get the Covid vaccine to save their lives. Unfortunately, celebrity worship in America is such that Aaron Rodgers wields more influence among those poor people than all of those Black civil rights leaders … combined. So bear that in… Read more.
Episode 53: Frankly, Democrats Are Behaving Like SNL’s Version of The Suicide Squad or The Peanuts Gang… Related commentaries: Joe Manchin… Listen.
Colin L. Powell was remembered for his leadership skills, his love of ABBA and Bob Marley and “his sense of humor, his insatiable curiosity and his comfort in his own skin” at a funeral Friday that drew presidents past and present, military leaders and hundreds of Washington dignitaries. Among those in attendance were Powell’s wife,… Read more.
From Opening Statements, it was clear to me that the Neo-Nazis intended to use their trial for the deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville as nothing more than a godsend to proselytize their racist propaganda. Here is how I decried what I thought was their manifest intent in a comment to a Daily Beast report on… Read more.
If you’re an American, you probably don’t know any more about FIFA, the international body that governs soccer, than you do about the IAEA, the international body that governs nuclear weapons. So imagine US law-enforcement authorities announcing the indictment of former MLB commissioner Bud Selig on criminal charges for fraud, criminal mismanagement and forgery, and… Read more.
Episode 52: But It Retains Many Vestiges of British Colonialism… Related episode: assassination of Jovenel Moïse… Listen.
By the way, this poor kid’s parents are probably among those we’ve seen on TV acting out at school board meetings across the country. But far too many of them strike me as avenging nerds who were bullied in school who now find themselves among the “cool kids” bullying hapless school board members. And they… Read more.
The media have been replete this week with comparisons between Japan’s Princess Mako marrying the commoner Kei Komuro and Britain’s Prince Harry marrying the commoner Meghan Markle. Yet a cursory reading of their respective courtships, engagements, and weddings would disabuse any reasonable mind of those comparisons. Therefore, I see no point in doing any disabusing… Read more.
