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HL 113 – The Asterisk Tennis Open at Flushing Meadows
With “volume” 113 HL returns from the August furlough to report what was saved, what lost and the sui generis at this year’s United States Open Tennis Championships. This was the first U.S. championship HL did not attend since the 1962 tournament at Forest Hills. ...
HL 112 – The New York Times’ Daily Assault on the Wealthy Accused of Desertion During the Plague Year
With a post like this, a disclosure is obligatory. The woke young cannibals at The New York Times will deem it a confession. On the morning of March 13, 2020, preceding the evening when Trump proclaimed the Covid-19 outbreak a “National Emergency (that he proceeded...
HL 111 – Media Coverage of The Ted Yoho/AOC Incident Highlights The Distorted Priorities of The Flake News
It’s always amusing to watch and listen to TV and radio newscasters feign shock and squeamishness when reporting words such as those spoken by Representative Ted Yoho about Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the steps of das kapital. We assume that like most...
HL 110 – When the Culture War Came for Charlie Warzel at the New York Times
In his January 29, 2020 New York Times opinion column, Charlie Warzel warned us to consider what to “. . . Do When The Culture War Comes For You?” Charlie said no one would be spared by the inquisition but some were more able to survive. “[F]oot soldiers” in...
HL 109 – Concerned About Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Health? We Worry As Much About John Roberts’!
Perhaps more. Justice Ginsburg’s sainthood and health issues are old and well known. With John Roberts, canonization began in 2012, when against his own convictions and view of the law he saved ObamaCare from the right wing horde. (Roberts Seizes The Moment, Albany...
HL 108 – On the Pavement Thinkin’ About Statehood for Washington, D.C.
We are fortunate that it’s more complicated and will take longer to purport to grant the District of Columbia statehood than remove Winston Churchill’s name from a Maryland high school up the Potomac from the Capital. During that elongation let’s think about what we...
