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Producers hyped Sunday’s telecast of the Grammys as a smorgasbord of music performances. What they presented smacked of a hip-hop binge. Even the few pop artists who performed featured rappers as condiments – like ketchup on hotdog. Granted, according to a Nielsen report on January 3, last year saw hip-hop finally surpass rock and roll… Read more.
On Saturday’s inaugural edition of The Van Jones Show, Jay-Z took issue with Trump taking credit for lowering black unemployment. Specifically, Jones asked if it’s okay for Trump to diss blacks as long as he “put[s] money in our pockets.” Truth be told, Jay-Z gave a rambling answer – filled with rich-man platitudes about money… Read more.
The match announcer hailed 35-year-old Roger Federer as the “ageless wonder” after he won his 19th grand slam at Wimbledon last summer. Well, the wonder that is Federer continues. Federer won the Australian Open championship with a five-set win over Marin Cilic, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 3-6, 6-1. In the past 12 months, Federer has… Read more.
The emailed response from the Guggenheim’s chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: The museum could not accommodate a request to borrow a painting by Vincent van Gogh for President and Melania Trump’s private living quarters. … The curator’s alternative: an 18-karat, fully functioning, solid gold toilet — an interactive work titled… Read more.
Donald Trump spent most of his career criticizing the World Economic Forum in Davos as an annual gathering of clueless global elites. But his criticism always reeked of resentment because he never received one of its coveted invitations. Bear this in mind. President Donald Trump put on his salesman’s hat on Friday during his address… Read more.
Venezuela might not be a “shithole country,” but it’s certainly a basket case — so much so that it’s making Zimbabwe look like a paragon of political stability and economic sustainability. Five years ago, there were 4000 white-owned farms in Zimbabwe; today, there are only 400 (mostly unproductive) farms left. Five years ago, Zimbabwe was… Read more.
Casual Football fans think Super Bowl Sunday is the most exciting day of the NFL season. But real fans know that day is conference championship Sunday. (“NFL’s Historic Conference Championship Sunday,” The iPINIONS Journal, January 22, 2007) Sure enough, this conference championship Sunday lived up to the hype. AFC Much to my chagrin, this earlier… Read more.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has gone to extreme lengths over the years to burnish his he-man image. I duly ridiculed him in commentaries like “Hail Putin,” December 3, 2007, “Putin’s Photo-Op Flop,” October 20, 2010, and “Putin’s Divorce Dents Public Armor,” June 12, 2013, which includes this abiding observation: Putin has become an international laughingstock… Read more.
Which perfectly symbolizes the dangers, diatribes, disaffection, discrimination, disillusionment, dissembling, dithering, and dysfunction that have characterized his first year as president of the United States. In the final moments leading up to Friday’s midnight deadline, Senate Republicans and Democrats were unable to agree on a stopgap funding measure to continue government services. … Whoever works… Read more.
Yes it is; as much a haven for them as offshore nations are for tax dodgers. The United Nations has allowed sexual harassment and assault to flourish in its offices around the world, with accusers ignored and perpetrators free to act with impunity. Dozens of current and former UN employees described a culture of silence… Read more.
