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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.
For posting this prayer after reading about Colin Powell’s death at ABC News, The Guardian, and The New York Times: This of course is the same Facebook whose former product manager, Frances Haugen, testified at a congressional hearing just weeks ago about it willfully peddling products that “harm children, stoke division, weaken our democracy and… Read more.
What cruel game of fate is this, dear Lord, that Covid should kill a man like Colin Powell but spare one like Donald Trump…? Colin L. Powell, who in four decades of public life served as the nation’s top soldier, diplomat and national security adviser, and whose speech at the United Nations in 2003 helped… Read more.
Episode 50: It Highlights the Challenges He Faces in Fighting Climate Change… Related commentaries: It’s time… Biden’s A-Team… Listen.
If only Morley Safer of 60 Minutes were here to give this the public derision it so richly deserves: On Thursday, three years after Banksy’s act of destructive creation, the anonymous buyer put up for auction “Girl With Balloon,” or rather, its successor — the retitled “Love Is in the Bin.” After nine bidders battled… Read more.
I don’t know about you, but even in my “love-them-and-leave-them” prime, it never crossed my mind to cruise gay bars to pick up girls. Truth be told, it would’ve struck me as arrogant and anti-social to go to one, only to reject natural overtures from gay men to pick me up. And, with all due… Read more.
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.
