Since the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month, public interest in his alleged killer Luigi Mangione has surged to an extraordinary degree. Driven by dismay at the high cost of health insurance in America, and the outrage felt by those who’ve been unsuccessful in having their own claims honored, many people now […]
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Quincy Jones: Quintessentially Cool
The passing of Quincy Jones on November 3rd, 2024, was mourned not only by individual fellow artists but by the entire music industry. First as a trumpeter and bandleader, later as a composer, arranger, conductor, and record producer, he enjoyed a stellar seven-decade career. He received 28 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a […]
Sean Combs: What Diddy do?
The scale of alleged crimes committed by Sean Combs, aka “P Diddy”, as alluded to in recent disclosures from the prosecutor in multiple sexual assault cases, is mind-boggling. Out of 3000 sex trafficking or sexual assault complaints against Combs, prosecutors have advanced 120 charges in which the plaintiffs are credible and the evidence is solid. […]
Snoopolympics: who let the Dogg out?
Every sports team has a mascot, so it seems entirely appropriate that Snoop Dogg was there for Team USA at so many events in this year’s Olympics in Paris. His evident lovability, on both a national and international level, makes him a natural ambassador. It’s all a bit mind-boggling when you review his life story. […]
Kamala Harris: history in the making
In the realm of American politics, 2024 is blowing out all the stops for history-making events. In the last two months alone, Donald Trump was convicted on 34 counts in the so-called “hush money” case, had two of his other federal cases delayed by sympathetic judges, and then survived an assassination attempt at one of […]
Rupert Murdoch – “Dirty Digger” in love again
Although Rupert Murdoch built a world-wide media empire from scratch, he has seemingly remained, despite being a canny and ruthless businessman, a romantic at heart. As evidence, we need only note that the 93-year-old multi-billionaire has recently been married for the fifth time, to Elena Zhukova. Indeed, Murdoch’s horoscope is a fitting example for several […]
Mitt Romney: woulda-coulda-shoulda-been President
Despite his significant personal and public appeal, Mitt Romney has never seemed to be in the right place at the right time to succeed in the penultimate ambition of many American politicians – Presidency of the USA. Although he enjoyed a full term (2003-2007) as the Governor of Massachusetts, he subsequently abandoned his 2007 run […]
Saptarishis Astrology Research software
For those of you who are old enough to remember, astrologers at one time had available to them a great research tool in the form of Lois Rodden’s AstroDataBank that ran on Microsoft’s Access database software. Personally, I made great use of it more than a decade ago when I was writing my book Parivartana […]
The Winter of Our Discontent…
These are difficult times for the Royal family. In January, King Charles and the Princess of Wales were both hospitalized within the same week. Charles was in for a prostate surgery, Kate for a major abdominal surgery that required several days of post-op monitoring. Her convalescence, it was cautioned, would take six to eight weeks. […]
King Charles: Exit, stage left?
It was no easy road to the throne of England for Charles. His mother Queen Elizabeth II held onto the royal scepter until she was on her death-bed at age 96. His life, laid bare by decades of tabloid coverage, and recapped in poignant detail in the Netflix series The Crown, evokes sympathy for a […]