Pity the poor narcissistic sociopath: nothing comes easy.
Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that Kim Jong-un was not personally aware of the detainment, mistreatment, and eventual torture...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 28, 2019
- 2 min
But some of my best friends are (fill in the racial/ethnic/gender designation of your choice)
I refused to be sucked into the entire Michael Cohen debacle yesterday, compelling or not, but I saw enough. And I did see the sickest of...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 27, 2019
- 2 min
Hey Trumpophiles—no hard feelings about your 2016 choice, but it's time to reboot.
To all those who voted for Trump in 2016 and who still believe he’s good for America, let me respectfully suggest a data cleanse. You...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 22, 2019
- 2 min
Outrage over the Jussie Smollett incident is normal, but let's keep it consistent.
Put aside for a moment the truth of what befell or did not befall actor Jussie Smollett, and I’ll put aside the fact that I had never...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 20, 2019
- 2 min
I committed the crime. I made sure there were witnesses. Now leave me alone.
It appears that, throughout the history of crime, practitioners of the craft have made one universal, overriding mistake: they’ve tried...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 17, 2019
- 2 min
Zero-sum comes to NYC, and it's hard to find anyone who doesn't look foolish...except Amazon.
By now the story is widely known—the corporate mega-giant looking for a new spot, asking for some give-backs, and promising to revitalize...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 14, 2019
- 2 min
Parkland +365: Reasons for hope; reasons for despair.
We all want instant results, and we’re all frustrated by the lack of adequate gun legislation in the year that has elapsed since the...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 12, 2019
- 2 min
The "kids" may make us a little uncomfortable, but that may not be a bad thing.
You've seen it happen—a team decides on a youth movement and the results are bad. The knee-jerk fan reaction is "bring back the...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 7, 2019
- 2 min
Donald Trump's legacy may be "he ended racism" by putting an ugly face on it.
Last fall I had the—well let's call it pleasure—of seeing the Queens of the Golden Mask at the the Ivoryton Playhouse here in...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 6, 2019
- 3 min
A shameless president makes one more attempt to reach the bottom
We accept the truth of any State of the Union address at our own risk. Presidents throughout history have used the State of the Union...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 4, 2019
- 2 min
As a purveyor of news, Facebook has the best cat videos.
On Saturday I wrote a fairly lengthy opinion piece on why Virginia's Ralph Northam should not resign the governorship—that indiscretions...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 31, 2019
- 2 min
I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours...
In Paradise Lost (Relax, honest—there’s no test after nor will you be forced to write a paper.) Let me begin again. In Paradise Lost—in...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 24, 2019
- 3 min
The land of opportunity is now the land of deprivation and despair.
At the risk of sounding like some old guy whose million discrete thoughts have coalesced into a few platitudes, let me say this: the...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 7, 2019
- 2 min
Huffing and puffing—just another wolf with a lot of wind.
It does become tiresome after a while, evoking 1984 every time Trump declares anything he says as truth by definition, or evoking Richard...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 4, 2019
- 2 min
It's not so much what you say, it's how. But it's also what.
It happens all the time in the NFL: a player scores a touchdown, then waves a ball in the defender's face, thereby incurring a...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 3, 2019
- 2 min
Events "slightly" farther away have allowed us finally to use the word "awesome"— and mean it.
By now you've all seen the photo. It resembles a snowman that children lost interest in completing, leaving it either limbless or...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 2, 2019
- 3 min
Jakelin Caal and Felipe Gómez Alonzo: just new links in a chain of nationalistic intolerance.
On an evening in March, 1932, a kidnapping occurred. Maybe there were other similar incidents that evening—crimes are seldom discrete—but...
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 31, 2018
- 2 min
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
You can’t enter a new year without undoing all the mistakes you made in the previous one. Forthwith my apologies for the missteps of...
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 27, 2018
- 2 min
Concerning Kirstjen Nielsen's so-called concerns.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen on Wednesday called the latest "immigration death,"— this time an 8-year-old Guatemalan...
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 21, 2018
- 1 min
Trump, lip-dervice patriot, continues to disgrace America's veterans.
The day Donald Trump promised to withdraw our troops from Syria, he pointed skyward—apparently invoking veterans who had fought and...
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