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July 25th, 2021 By Geoffrey Huchel Stand-up comedian and film and TV actor Jackie Mason, who was known for providing the voice of Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky on THE SIMPSONS (1989-), passed away on July 24, 2021, in Manhattan New York. The cause of Mason’s death was not disclosed however, it was revealed he has been hospitalized for several weeks. He was 93. A large portion of Mason’s career was spent on stage. He made his Broadway debut in the comedy play “A Teaspoon Every Four Hours”, for which he co-wrote. He also had a two-year run with “The World According to Me”, running for 36...

July 20th, 2021 By Nikki Slusher Last Friday the Texas Senate passed legislation that would remove requirements for public schools to have to teach civil rights movements and women’s suffrage. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech and “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” being cut from the curriculum along with Susan B. Anthony and Caesar Chavez. The bill passed with an 18-4 vote but has still not passed through the House where they are unable to have a quorum since a group of Democrats are out-of-state. The state legislature’s special session ends on August 6th. The leg...

July 15th, 2021 Bad Brad By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman, is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist/cardiologist I, being a duly board-certified curmudgeon, watch the news in pain and sorrow. Galahad the brilliant Siberian Husky who is in charge of everything (and has an MBA, LCSW and Ph.D’s in geophysics and political science) has attempted to ply me with distractions. Recently, I spoke to him of growing up in Chicago and all the superb medical education around me. His suggestion to distract me from current events, was...

Lockdown, lowdown… She was the epitome of a female police officer in a duo that rocked our world when it arrived in the UK and became an icon for all women. Troubled and flaky, the role she played in the Ying/Yang double act when her partner was safe, secure and married whilst she was unstable, insecure, and single was enough for her legacy as an actor to be assured. And then she pitched up as Michael’s mum. Sharon Gless was iconic in Cagney and Lacey. Cagney and Lacey was, in itself, iconic. It took feminism and gave us a real life dose of it. It was not of its time but ahead of it and t...

July 13th, 2021 By Bethany “BST2” Armstrong The first high-profile sexual assault conviction was overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and Cosby walks free after three years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. This is a blow to the MeToo movement and to every woman who has been raped. In 2005 the District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr. declined to prosecute Cosby to prevent him from invoking his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination during Andrea’s civil suit. He did this via a press release. Cosby sat in depositions (the process of gi...