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WTF are CNN and Stanley Tucci thinking with their tone-deaf promos for Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy. It’s bad enough that Tucci seems an embarrassing substitute for Anthony Bourdain. But the only thing worse than making a mockery of people starving and even dying under Covid-19 restrictions is eating like a celebrated schmuck in the… Read more.
Celebrities vow to quit social media As clickbait goes, celebrities posting tweets pledging to quit social media takes the cake. Pam Anderson is the latest to take the pledge. But in seeking more fame, she just looks lame. Of course, social media platforms are rife with social malignancies, physical dangers, and moral hazards. Thus, if celebrities made public service… Read more.
The Biden administration is accelerating steps to feature abolitionist hero Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, a change announced during the Obama administration that stalled under President Donald Trump. ‘We’re exploring ways to speed up that effort,’ White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Monday. Psaki said it’s important the nation’s currency ‘reflect the history… 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 NFC championship game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Green Bay Packers lived up to… Read more.
I’ve been waging a quixotic campaign for years to out Rupert Murdoch as a greater danger to democracy than Donald Trump. Here, for example is what I wrote in this respect in “Political Ads: Twitter, Facebook, Fox News: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. And Then There’s Google,” November 6, 2019: __________ Rupert Murdoch… Read more.
Here in part is how I reiterated the self-conscious disdain Trump has for his followers in “Aping Notorious Cult Leader Jim Jones, Trump Invites His MAGA Followers to One Last Rally…?” January 6, 2020: _________ His MAGA followers probably thought he was joking when he said during one campaign rally last year that he would… Read more.
You probably thought this day would never come. Therefore, as the son of a preacher man, I feel obliged to intone that familiar Psalm: This is the day the lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. (118:24) Amen. We made it. And this, despite what might have seemed like four years… Read more.
If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he would marvel at America’s schizophrenic march towards the Promised Land of his famous dream. After all, America elected its first Black man as president in 2008; elected its first Black woman as vice president in 2020; and, even closer to his home and heart, elected… Read more.
Washington DC is in lockdown with a Baghdad-style ‘Green Zone’ perimeter set up days out from Joe Biden’s inauguration as more than 20,000 armed National Guard troops are mobilized, razor wire is installed on fences and road blocks are put in place amid ‘major security threats’ in the capital. As security intensifies in Washington, the Secret… Read more.
House lawmakers on Wednesday impeached President Trump for his role in last week’s deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, capping an extraordinary week of violence, apprehension and partisan brawling in Congress just as Washington cranks up security in preparation for Joe Biden’s inauguration, just a week away. The 232-197 vote was historic: It made Trump… Read more.
