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HL 153 – Ukraine Run All [ ] Round My Brain

HL 153 – Ukraine Run All [ ] Round My Brain

Each news days begins and ends with [The] Ukraine. [1]  We consult the Times, Wash Post, NPR and other relatively reliable sources throughout to follow the ongoing war criminality and resistance.  As we said in HL 151, one day before Russia invaded...

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HL 152 – Unreliable Sources at CNN

HL 152 – Unreliable Sources at CNN

The hypocrisy and timing (that tritely is everything) could not be more nearly perfect.  In Brian Stelter’s February 27, 2022, edition of his weekly show “Reliable Sources” devoted to press quality, ethics, conflicts of interest and objectivity.  Stelter began the...

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HL 151 – Volodymyr Zelensky 2022 is Haile Selassie 1936

HL 151 – Volodymyr Zelensky 2022 is Haile Selassie 1936

The standard comparison these days for Ukraine’s predicament, i.e., looking across the border, at almost 200,000 Russian soldiers, is to the Sudetenland in September 1938.  When/then Hitler met with Neville Chamberlain, and he agreed to Germany’s demand for the...

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HL 149 – What Sidney Poitier Meant To Us

HL 149 – What Sidney Poitier Meant To Us

“Let’s start at the very beginning – a very good place to start”[1] and for this newsletter that means HL 1 on November 15, 2016, where we reported that Sidney Poitier was a motivator and influencer for the entire Hopelessly Liberal endeavor.  We said: “By 1992...

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HL 148 – The WTA Goes All The Way

HL 148 – The WTA Goes All The Way

Blog posts are made by fools like we, but only God can so perfectly juxtapose the Women’s Tennis Association’s and the Association of Tennis Professionals’ (men’s ATP) responses last week to allegations of sexual abuse and domestic violence involving star players. In...

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Books

Priceless Cover

Priceless: The Case that Brought Down the Visa/ MasterCard Bank Cartel

Journal of Plague Year cover

Journal of the Plague Year: An Insider’s Chronicle of Eliot Spitzer’s Short and Tragic Reign