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By the way, this poor kid’s parents are probably among those we’ve seen on TV acting out at school board meetings across the country. But far too many of them strike me as avenging nerds who were bullied in school who now find themselves among the “cool kids” bullying hapless school board members. And they… Read more.
The media have been replete this week with comparisons between Japan’s Princess Mako marrying the commoner Kei Komuro and Britain’s Prince Harry marrying the commoner Meghan Markle. Yet a cursory reading of their respective courtships, engagements, and weddings would disabuse any reasonable mind of those comparisons. Therefore, I see no point in doing any disabusing… Read more.
President Biden made quite a show of tasking Vice President Harris to deal with the migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border. I remarked at the time that this assignment was so fated to fail, it seemed intended to sabotage any ambition she was harboring of succeeding him as president. After all, Biden had already tasked… Read more.
Boston Celtics games have been pulled off Chinese media after center Enes Kanter tweeted a two-minute video of himself expressing support for Tibet and wore shoes with the phrase ‘Free Tibet’ on them during Wednesday night’s game against the New York Knicks. ‘I’m here to add my voice and speak out about what is happening… Read more.
Like me, you probably have family, friends, and colleagues who try to impress by regurgitating a point they heard some talking head make on TV. I never fail to give them an attentive ear. I even humor them with a question or two. Because they never seem interested in debating the point; and, at the… Read more.
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.
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.
