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Jon Gruden stepped down Monday as the coach of the Las Vegas Raiders football team hours after The New York Times detailed emails in which he had made homophobic and misogynistic remarks, following an earlier report of racist statements about a union leader [‘Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin tires,’ Gruden wrote about… Read more.
Lines of cars snake from gasoline stations. Fights break out among angry motorists trying to get fuel. Grocery staples are out of stock on store shelves. A charity warns that doubling heating bills will force a million households to rely on extra blankets to stay warm. This was supposed to be the year the UK… Read more.
Episode 49: Not Only Did Vikings Precede Him but Indians Greeted Him… Listen.
Mark Zuckerberg denied his 3.5 billion users the ability to get high (er, likes) on Facebook and Instagram for nearly six hours on Monday. But if you believe his configuration story about this outage, you probably believe Donald Trump’s fraud story about the 2020 presidential election. I think the temperamental Zuckerberg just reacted in a… Read more.
The first Monday in October marks the beginning of a new term for the Supreme Court. This tradition dates back to 1916. But the Court has never marked this occasion with public opinion of its impartiality as low as it is today. The Supreme Court’s approval rating is plummeting, its critics are more caustic, and… Read more.
Unsurprisingly, Saturday Night Live featured in-fighting among Democrats over President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda on its season premiere on Saturday night. And it’s arguable that SNL’s portrayal of this in-fighting was not only more entertaining but more comprehensible than any report in the mainstream media. For the record, though, here is a little of… Read more.
Episode 48: Mandatory Military Service Will Improve Democracies and Prevent Stupid Wars… Related commentaries: bone-spur Trump… Listen.
That says more about you than them. Read more.
I suspect I need only cite Jake Paul to get any sports analyst worth their salt to commiserate over boxing matches becoming as rigged as Russian elections. Apropos of that, the following is from a Wednesday report in the London Guardian: ________ A major investigation into boxing at the 2016 Olympic Games has identified seven… Read more.
Greta Thunberg is the Swedish Cassandra of climate doom. She’s only 18, but she has been making international headlines for years by rebuking global leaders for failing to stem the ravages of climate change. In short, the authoritative nature of Greta’s critique is invariably matched only by its acerbic tone. No doubt this match is… Read more.
