Welcome! This is an unapologetic, agenda-free zone. Just commentaries on current events that’ll move you to think, laugh, rage, and even cry.
I’m going to forego my customary review to focus instead on one person who made a personal/racial statement last night that transcended all of the fashion statements that are usually the subject of so much morning-after chatter. That person is Viola Davis, and the statement she made was nothing more than wearing her hair in its natural state. The reason this is so noteworthy is that, for as long as… Read more.
I appreciate all the attention The Academy Awards give to good but relatively unseen films like The Tree of Life. Unfortunately, with all due respect to critics and members of the Academy (of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), how much a film makes, not whether the Academy awards it an Oscar, is the generally recognized… Read more.
We are thoroughly investigating the incident and we are taking steps to ensure that this does not ever happen again… I assure you … I promise you … this was NOT intentional in any way… I offer my sincere apologies for any offence this may have caused, to the president of Afghanistan, the government of… Read more.
I have seen only one episode of American Idol and that was during its first year of production. I was not impressed! But then again, watching plainly untalented people make fools of themselves (intentionally or not) is not my idea of entertainment. (“Paul Abdul making booty calls on American Idol,” The iPINIONS Journal, May 5,… Read more.
No doubt the rhetoric now being hurled between the United States/Israel and Iran smacks of an unnerving echo of that which was hurled between the United States/Britain and Iraq before the ill-fated invasion of that country in 2003 – complete with UN nuclear inspectors (then and now) on a wild-goose chase to find weapons of mass destruction.… Read more.
The absurdity, chauvinism, and irony inherent in men attempting to deny women access to contraceptives (and abortions) is completely lost on these nincompoops. (Abortion a political issue … again, The iPINIONS Journal, February 11, 2012) Incomprehensibly, this oversight was compounded on Thursday when Republicans convened a congressional panel of interested parties to discuss this issue that… Read more.
The media and sports fans alike made quite a spectacle of deifying what proved to be the inconsequential play of Tim Tebow of the Denver Broncos during the most recent NFL season. Therefore, you’d think they would be wary of deifying the play of Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks only months later. Yet… Read more.
Ever since Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, liberal elites have betrayed an obsessive interest in the political career of his wife, Hillary. These are the folks who treated Barack Obama like an uppity Negro for daring to challenge her ascension to the presidency in 2008, and who are now – with no hint… Read more.
As improbable as it seemed when I launched this weblog, today marks the 7th anniversary of The iPINIONS Journal. Remarkably enough, I enjoy writing my commentaries even more now than I did back then. Therefore, I have no doubt that I’ll be doing so for at least another seven years. Apropos of which, I marveled when… Read more.
[I]nstead of [Whitney] having to watch wistfully as the music industry heralds the rise of the likes of Adele and honors the longevity of the likes of Bruce Springsteen, this show will now feature the industry’s biggest stars falling all over themselves to sing not just her praises but her songs too (and far better than… Read more.
