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Serena Williams’ pronouncement the other day that “Women’s sports is having a moment” stimulated this review of the women’s and men’s Roland Garros finals, contested last weekend in Paris.  The first tennis commentary HL has made in a long time, due mostly to our...

There are cons and pros to the Media’s atavistic, lazy and repetitive reports of Trump’s stream of lies, tantrums, taunts and violations of law, constitutional and other.  But adopting the Orwellian names he gives to policies and events is utterly without redeeming...

In HL 191, “The Jewish People Would Have A Lot To Do With A Loss If I’m At 40%” (9/23/2024).  I nominated and elected Trump the “Anti-Jew” saying “[w]hen I think about virtually everything my parents taught me about being a good person and a good Jew, Trump shapes up...

Awaking from our long Winter’s nap with HL 196 (3/31/2025) we commented at length about “what not to do” in opposition to Trump - citing as prime exemplars, Chuck Schumer, Columbia University and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, the law firm easily...

Before James Carville admonished moderates, liberals and those further left to lay low and allow Trump and the second coming of his cult to destroy themselves, Hopelessly Liberal had adopted that modus operandi.  Our last post was on January 6.  Several years from now...

On December 8, 2024, Bashar-al-Assad fled Damascus for Moscow.  His ouster from the Syria he had ruled for 24 years, succeeding his dad who had ruled for the preceding 30, was ironically but predictably the result of Israel’s response to October 7, 2023, and the...