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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.
President Biden made quite a show of tasking Vice President Harris to deal with the migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border. I remarked at the time that this assignment was so fated to fail, it seemed intended to sabotage any ambition she was harboring of succeeding him as president. After all, Biden had already tasked… Read more.
Episode 51: Sky Rage AND Mark Zuckerberg as Real Life Lyutsifer Safin.. Related episode… Online comments… Listen.
Boston Celtics games have been pulled off Chinese media after center Enes Kanter tweeted a two-minute video of himself expressing support for Tibet and wore shoes with the phrase ‘Free Tibet’ on them during Wednesday night’s game against the New York Knicks. ‘I’m here to add my voice and speak out about what is happening… Read more.
Like me, you probably have family, friends, and colleagues who try to impress by regurgitating a point they heard some talking head make on TV. I never fail to give them an attentive ear. I even humor them with a question or two. Because they never seem interested in debating the point; and, at the… Read more.
Alas, Egyptians are decrying the dictatorial rule of former general Abdel Fattah el-Sisi today in ways that make the rule of the dictator they overthrew 10 years ago seem benign. That dictator, of course, was former general Hosni Mubarak. Put another way, the ‘devil’ Egyptians knew was far better than the one they are now… Read more.
