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Diddy and Jay-Z: birds of a feather The feds arrested Sean “Diddy” Combs in September on charges of sex trafficking and other federal offenses. Back then, I suggested it was only a matter of time before this Bad Boy’s Rock-A-Fella buddy, Jay-Z, faced the music, too. Sure enough, here’s how NPR reported yesterday on the… Read more.
Jury finds Trump liable for sexual abuse Donald Trump has a long record of losing court cases. For example, he lost over 65 trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. So nobody should be surprised that he lost this one. A jury found him liable for sexual abuse yesterday. A Manhattan jury… Read more.
I have written many commentaries effectively ridiculing the culture at Fox News as a cross between those dramatized in The Stepford Wives and Peyton Place. Here for example is what I wrote in “Women Complain Fox News Head, Roger Ailes, Has Dick for Brains,” July 20, 2016: _________ Close friends will tell you that I… Read more.
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It is common knowledge that Martin Luther King Jr was a womanizer. He even rivaled John F. Kennedy in this respect. Of course, JFK was a president, not a preacher. But I am the son of a preacher man. So I have standing to put MLK’s womanizing into perspective. As it happens, I did over… Read more.
In May 2011, detectives of the NYPD Special Victims Division arrested then IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) on charges of criminal sexual assault, attempted rape, and unlawful imprisonment. To say his arrest was sensational would be an understatement; after all, they literally boarded his plane and cuffed DSK as he was departing/fleeing from New York for… Read more.
I find it pathetic when relatively obscure people say outrageous or offensive things just to generate media “buzz.” This, of course, is standard fare on Twitter. Even more pathetic, though, is when social and mainstream media lap it up like Pavlovian dogs, causing that outrageous and offensive blather to go “viral.” I suspect this tail-wagging-the-dog… Read more.
For over a decade now my favorite show on TV has been Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. As the promo for this New York-based show states, it is based on crime stories “ripped from the headlines”; i.e., art imitating life. Well, in a case of life imitating art, Dominique Strauss-Kahn (aka DSK), the powerful head… Read more.
Yesterday Israel demonstrated why it stands out in the Middle East not just as a Jewish state surrounded by mostly hostile Muslim ones, but as an unqualified democracy amidst dictatorships in varying degrees of benignity. (Granted, the dramatic revolutions now unfolding throughout this region might usher in bona fide democratic governments in a few countries, but… Read more.
CBS News released a statement on Tuesday concerning veteran war reporter Lara Logan, which read, in full, as follows: On Friday, Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a 60 Minutes story when she and her team and… Read more.
