A Slap from Our Ruling Class

For the past month, I’ve been anxiously awaiting the day when something displaces the media’s obsessive, jingoistic coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war, which is being used by the Biden administration to distract from its massive failures on the home front while propagandizing already struggling Americans into being willing to pay still more for gasoline and to send many billions in military and other aid to escalate a foreign conflict and risk World War III. Never did I imagine, however, that the news item that would manage to elbow Ukraine coverage aside for a good week would be a tawdry tale of two boors, one telling a distasteful joke about the other’s balding spouse and the other responding with a public slap—and with this entire unsavory scene unfolding at an insular celebrity awards show fewer and fewer of us care to watch. Read Full Article »