Was Muhammad Ali over-rated? (spoiler: yes, in every possible way) | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Muhammad Ali -- “The Greatest” -- was not only vastly overrated as a fighter but even more overrated as a rebel-activist-revolutionary-humanitarian. Mickey Z. -- World News Tr ...

Never Give a Sucker.... | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Feb. 13, 2018 Kudos to the 1941 W.C Fields comedy film "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" for the inspiration. It certainly does fit with what is transpiring ...

John Perry Barlow, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018 | Cindy Cohn

John Perry Barlow Cindy Cohn -- EFF Feb. 7, 2018 With a broken heart I have to announce that EFF's founder, visionary, and our ongoing inspiration, John Perry Barlow, passed away quietly in his sleep ...

Amerika's Jacob's Ladder | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Dec. 16, 2017 In Adrian Lyne's 1990 drama, Jacob's Ladder, Tim Robbins plays a haunted Vietnam War vet mourning his dead son, while sufferin ...

Collapse of the European ice sheet caused chaos | Quaternary Science Reviews

The sea level rise and the colossal amounts of meltwater discharged from the collapsing ice sheet meant that areas that previously were land eventually became seabed. Britain and Ireland, which had b ...

DeNiro rides the R train | Mickey Z.

Artist: Martin Schoeller (American/German, born 1968). Title: Robert De Niro on Subway. Brooklyn, New York, 2013. Medium: Photographs, Archival pigment print. Size: 73.5 x 91.5 cm. (28.9 x 36 in.). F ...

‘Decolonizing the Mind’: Using Hollywood Celebrities to Validate Islam | Ramzy Baroud

Lindsay Lohan. By Toglenn, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22882141Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust March 23, 2017 When Terry Holdbrooks Jr., converted to Islam in 2003, ...

21st Century Amerika, A Reality Show | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 30, 2016 Forty years have passed since Sidney Lumet's finest film, Network, written by Paddy Chayefsky. Anyone who wishes to see an al ...

Where are their hashtags? | Mickey Z.

Photo collage created by Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 6, 2016 My Facebook page hosts many male pattern violence-related posts, often bearing the caption “name the problem.” As unrele ...

Sex (statutory rape), Drugs, and Rock n’ Roll | Mickey Z.

Movie Stars and Rockets. By IMG_3588, Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 29, 2016 Recently, I pondered the impact cinematic sexism had on my psyche and told you about my early a ...

Masculinity goes to the movies... | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 19, 2016 Recently, I was tagged on Facebook to participate in something called the “80s Music Challenge.” I excitedly agreed but such social ...