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Letters of a Screenwriter in Trouble

Dear Gato, Bocas del Toro couldn"€™t be more different than Puerto Viejo. In Bocas, the "€œVenice of Panama,"€ the only way to get around is by dugout canoe, paddled by genial 15-year-olds smoking weed and ...

The Insight of Hindsight

The day John Kennedy was killed, few thought it was anything other than exactly what it seemed to be. Most believed that the crime was committed by the party named as the perpetrator. A weapon was used that, although having ...

Another Brick in the Hole: Tetris-Sexuals

The new Tetris movie, available now on Apple TV+, is by all accounts pretty good, for a film about obscure 1980s business deals relating to an old videogame about rearranging falling bricks into a cohesive wall until such a ...

Teaching Psycho Flintstones About Women’s Equality

The universal panning of President Biden's decision to finally leave Afghanistan is the mirror image of the one time the media loved Trump. Remember that joyous occasion? It was when he bombed Syria two months after taking ...

Autocracy vs. Democracy or China vs. America?

"I've known Xi Jinping for a long time. ... He doesn't have a democratic -- with a small 'd' -- bone in his body," said Joe Biden in his first press conference as president, and then he ambled on: "He's one of the guys, ...

Alexander Lukashenko

The Other EU

While the Western media is filled with news of the European Union’s woes, they are strangely silent about another EU—the Eurasian Union, which bridges Eastern Europe and the formidable Central Asian and Asian tiger ...

British Students Need a Good Bollocking

"€œWhat do we want?"€ Um.... "€œWhen do we want it?"€ Er.... Well, knock me down with a fire extinguisher (preferably dropped from a serious height). British students are out on the streets protesting loudly ...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Portrait of the Week

HOME Two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon. A female restaurant manager, a Chinese graduate student, and an 8-year-old boy were killed, and nearly 200 others were injured. Federal agents pieced together that a black bag ...

Biden Holds a Losing Hand

As President Joe Biden's poll numbers sank this fall, and the presidentially ambitious in his party began to stir, the White House put out the word. Forget all that 2020 campaign chatter about Biden being a "transitional ...

Media Go Wild for Child-Porn Friendly Judge

These were Google's top headlines this week about the hearings on President Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson: White House chief of staff Ron Klain hits back at Sen. Ted Cruz -- Business Insider, April ...

Jerusalem

Wailing (at a) Wall

I’ve no next of kin. When I die, I have no idea what’s gonna happen to my house. Not that I don’t have a plan: After I stroke out on my bedroom floor, my corpse will putrefy and the stank will be absorbed into the ...

The Lakers”€™ Wilt Chamberlain is Still a Superstar

Starting Thursday, the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers meet for the twelfth time in the National Basketball Association finals. The Lakers have traditionally showcased superstars, from George Mikan, the NBA's ...

Erin Goes Blah

The recent news concerning the Irish government’s decision to close its embassy to the Holy See in Rome is yet another indicator of how petty and nasty the mental and moral midgets in Dublin’s Government Buildings ...

M/Y Eclipse

Property Costs

Arbitrary confiscation of private property raises several alarming issues. Apart from the purely moral ones, serious legal questions surround the recent seizures of yachts, airplanes, cash, houses, and other assets ...

Oh, the Indignity!

One of the things that I notice walking through the streets of England—but not only in England—is the almost complete lack of self-respect of the population. Self-esteem, of course, is another matter entirely: Most ...

Is the New World Order Unraveling?

With Greece on the precipice of default, and Portugal and Italy approaching the ledge, the European monetary union appears in peril. Should it collapse, the European Union itself could be in danger, for economic nationalism ...

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