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Anyone who knows me knows that the last thing I expected to be doing on Sunday afternoon was watching golf. Yet that’s what I did, and I’m happy to say so. This report from the May 23 edition of The New York Times explains why: _________ Weathering a riveting, roller-coaster test of nerve over five… Read more.
The tech, legal, and political worlds are all atwitter over the way Apple CEO Tim Cook was grilled during cross-examination at an “epic” antitrust trial on Friday. No doubt this reaction was partly due to the unusual fact that the presiding judge, not opposing counsel, was the one who grilled him. As Fortune reported on… Read more.
Episode 33: Signing Executive Orders to Reverse Trump’s Policies Was Easy… Related commentaries: I picked Biden… rogue nations… Chutzpah!… boycott Olympics… Russian hackers… China Uighurs… Groundhog-day flare up… Neverending story… 1 dead Israeli… Afghanistan… Listen.
Remarkably, it seems rogue actors – from totalitarian states like North Korea to terrorist groups like the Taliban, drug cartels like the Sinaloas, and ransomware extortionists like Darkside – see the mighty United States the way parasites see big grey whales. Only this explains how it has become as normal for those actors to steal… Read more.
Frankly, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy) is showing the kind of profile in courage not seen among Republican leaders since John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. No doubt you recall how he famously alienated “the base” by refusing to propagate base lies about Barack Obama being a Muslim socialist hell-bent on destroying the country. But it appears… Read more.
In the interest of full disclosure, and to at least limit friendly fire, please beware that I voted for Joe Biden. In fact, when he picked Kamala Harris as his running mate, I duly gloated in “I Picked Biden-Harris 2020 in January 2019. Now It’s Official!” August 12, 2020. In other words, I not only… Read more.
The reason for the ‘Ha!’ is that everyone knows doping is as commonplace in horse racing as it is in professional cycling. In fact, I commented on this open and notorious secret just last year in “Big Doping Syndicate Behind Horse Racing Finally Exposed … and Indicted!” March 12, 2020. In fact, to put this… Read more.
Episode 32: You Need to Build Your Own Super (Home) Team to Be Like Mike… Related commentaries: LeBron and KD… Listen.
I suspect even Donald Trump thought he would lose his cult-like spell over Republicans after not just losing the 2020 presidential election in a landslide (by his own definition), but inciting an insurrection to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, and then costing them control of the US Senate to boot. Yet, paradoxically, his spell… Read more.
