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No doubt you recall the mystery that began when Malaysian flight MH370 vanished into thin air en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. It had 239 people on board. Truth be told, I felt certain international search teams would find it. The technology that enabled deep-sea explorers to find the wreck… Read more.
The media hype that occasioned Danica Patrick’s debut on the IndyCar circuit rivaled that which occasioned Tiger Woods’s on the PGA tour. Except that, where Woods wasted no time living up to his hype, Patrick seemed fated never to live up to hers. In fact, I found her results so pedestrian that, just three years… Read more.
I am going canoeing to be at one with nature, while meditating on the requirements for a purposeful life. But cultural brainwashing is such that you’d be forgiven for commemorating this solemn occasion by going shopping or to the beach. Still, remember to honor the troops whose “ultimate sacrifice” made this perverse holiday possible. And… Read more.
Here in part is the plainly hypocritical way President Trump weaseled out of the nuclear summit with President Kim: Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting. (CNN, May 24, 2018) Indeed, just weeks ago,… Read more.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is continuing his smorgasbord of destabilizing activities in Western countries. The United States and European Union implemented economic sanctions that were supposed to humble and hobble him. But they appear to have only enraged and emboldened him. No doubt this is because, for nearly 20 years, Putin has lorded over a… Read more.
President Trump has a notorious habit of variously taking credit for successes he had little to do with and praising things, only to see them fail. For example: He took credit for Ford’s decision to keep a manufacturing plant in Kentucky instead of moving it to Mexico. But then Ford announced that it never intended… Read more.
Frankly, I couldn’t care less about this wedding. In fact, you couldn’t have paid me enough to get up at 8 this morning, let alone at 4, to watch this royal spectacle. I have vented antipathy to royalty and all its appurtenances in many commentaries, including in “Homage to Royal Wedding,” April 28, 2011, when… Read more.
What is it about the continent of Africa that it suffers the worst not only of man’s inhumanity to man, but also of Mother Nature’s wrath? After all, no continent has been more beset by genocidal wars and political corruption on the one hand, and by drought and disease on the other. This led me… Read more.
I’ve been commenting on Catalonia’s fight for independence for years. My commentaries range from “Catalonia: Spain’s Kosovo Problem,” October 1, 2012, to “Catalonia Continues Sisyphean Climb Towards Independence,” October 2, 2017. The latter includes this defining observation: ____________________ Catalonia held an independence referendum yesterday. But only the Einsteinian definition of ‘insanity’ explains why. It’s bad… Read more.
