When Joe Biden took the podium in Nevada over the weekend, he was supposed to be giving voters a reason to believe he deserved another term. Instead, the first octogenarian president gave yet another reason he has no business being in the White House, garbling out a story about meeting with foreign leaders soon after […]
It’s Taylor Swift‘s world, and she just allows us to live in it. After weeks where she attracted endless attention for her football star boyfriend and a mystifying right-wing campaign against her, the Grammy Awards put the focus squarely back on her art. “Midnights” earned Swift her fourth career Grammy for album of the year […]
Have we come to the point where the media is now an Ouroboros of coverage, eating its own tail in an effort to feed off of some kind of narrative? The latest example involves Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. Swift is the world’s most famous pop singer and Kelce, her boyfriend, the second-best player on […]
Let me give it to Bill Belichick: He’s responsible for three of the greatest moments of my life as a sports fan. I was too young to remember Super Bowl XXI, where the New York Giants won with him as their defensive coordinator back in 1987. Four years later, however, he crafted the game plan […]
Iran, allegedly, via proxy, attacked U.S. installments in Jordan yesterday. Via Politico (emphasis added); Top U.S. leaders issued a warning on Sunday to Iran-backed militants, a day after a drone attack killed three U.S. troops in Jordan, dramatically escalating the situation in the Middle East. “We had a tough day last night in the […]
Top O’ the Briefing Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Ketzlebn felt that his preference for Pac-Man-shaped pierogi and faux leather finery kept just the right amount of mystery swirling about him. In the early days of my stand-up career, I drove to every gig, no matter where […]
Before we get too carried away, I should point out that the article title is satire. Or at least it’s partly satire. The Big Apple was named the “Best City in the World,” but not by the Church of Satan. (They have yet to weigh in on the question to my knowledge.) Instead, Gotham had […]
ROME — Pope Francis recalled the extermination of millions of Jews in calling Wednesday for the upcoming Holocaust Day of Remembrance to reaffirm that war can never be justified and only benefits weapons makers. At the end of his weekly general audience, Francis referred to Saturday’s commemoration, which has become fraught this year given Israel’s […]
A new poll uncovers not just a huge but a cavernous difference between the Ivy League elites and the rest of us. And we’re not talking just about the differences between the private jet crowd and those of us on cattle car jetliners that fall apart in midair. The […]
A long-awaited ceremony to present the Congressional Gold Medal to the Ghost Army — the secret, inventive and unique World War II units that used creative deception to fool the Germans on the battlefields of Europe. The public recognition will take place at the U.S. Capitol on March 21. Source link
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