Trust me, I appreciate what it takes to avert your gaze from the war in Ukraine to pay a little attention to the one in Ethiopia. But, given our shared humanity, I hope you find this episode was worth the diversion.

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Length: 18 min 15 sec 

Like me, you’ve probably heard the aphorism “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” a million times. Well, beware, because never before in our lifetime has that failure portended more dire consequences than a redux of World War II now playing out before our eyes.

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Length: 23 min 56 sec 

A day to get the best deal on cars and mattresses - ever?

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Length: 6 min 48 sec 

However, if you have to wait for this day to read on social media about how much you’re loved, you might want to find a new lover.

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Length: 8 min 10 sec 

Everyone is saying this post-season featured the most exciting playoff games in NFL history. But it also featured some of the most vexing controversies, including one highlighted by the racism that stems from America’s original sin – slavery.

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Length: 22 min 57 sec 

Rich folks have been gathering annually for 50 years for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Their mission has been to continually shape the global political and economic agenda – purportedly for the general welfare.

But, unless you’re a white, rich man, their agenda probably has not served you all that well… 

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Length: 20 min 57 sec 

Southerners triggered the Civil War (1.0) because they wanted to own Blacks as slaves. Now Republicans seem hell-bent on triggering a civil war 2.0 because they want to deny Blacks the unfettered right to vote.

So forget civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr, because it’s abolitionists like Frederick Douglass who must be really rolling over in their graves…

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Length: 25 min 54 sec 

Members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association vote on the annual Golden Globes. But after reports exposed them as little more than a cabal of venal white supremacists, Hollywood A-listers rushed to disassociate from their awards show. This previewed its doom.

Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences vote on the annual Oscars. But the problem is that their association makes the Hollywood Foreign Press Association look diverse and progressive by comparison. So are virtue-signaling Hollywood A-listers going to disassociate from the Oscars too…?  Ha!

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Length: 10 min 32 sec 

Is it just me, or are famous people dying in droves these days? Because not so long ago, their deaths came in such intermittent and limited number that I used to play the morbid game about the deaths of famous people coming in threes.

More to the point, social-media networks have turned the expression of condolences on these occasions into little more than a trite and often narcissistic ritual. That’s why, to disassociate from the maddening crowds who participate, I paid tribute to only four of the scores who died in 2021.

Fatefully, though, as I was preparing to record my tribute to Desmond Tutu, news broke that Sidney Poitier had died. And, if you’ll pardon the expression, I felt a divine inspiration to kill two birds with one stone.

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Length: 17 min 30 sec