The iPINIONS Journal

<p><span style=font-size: small;><span style=font-family: Calibri;><strong>ANTHONY L. HALL</strong> takes aim at the global events of 2013 with a unique and refreshing perspective. Here are some of the topics he addresses:<br /></span></span><strong><span style=font-size: small;><span style=font-family: Calibri;><br />Public outrage over NSA spying<br /></span></span></strong><span style=font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;><br />“There’s no rationalizing their outrage over the NSA monitoring their promiscuous and indiscriminate footprints (online and via telephone). For evidently these nincompoops think it’s okay for Google Amazon Yahoo Facebook and others to spy on them to sell them stuff but not okay for the NSA to do so to keep them safe.”<br /></span><strong><span style=font-size: small;><span style=font-family: Calibri;><br />National praise NBA player Jason Collins got for coming out<br /></span></span></strong><span style=font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;><br />“His courageous stand is somewhat undermined by the fact that he waited to take it on his way out of the league.”</span></p><p><span style=font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;> </span><strong><span style=font-size: small;><span style=font-family: Calibri;>Women who’d rather pose nude than be caught without makeup</span></span></strong></p><p><span style=font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;> </span><span style=font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;>“Who would’ve thought the liberation inherent in the sexual revolution and feminist movement would devolve into a self-abnegating farce where women themselves consider it a ‘brave decision’ to go out in public without makeup?”</span></p><p><span style=font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;> </span><strong><span style=font-size: small;><span style=font-family: Calibri;>Mediterranean Sea becoming a graveyard for Africans migrants</span></span></strong></p><p><span style=font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;> </span><span style=font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;>“I just hope the damning irony is not lost on any proud African that 50 years after decolonization hundreds of Africans (men women and children) are risking their lives practically every day to subjugate themselves to the paternal mercies of their former colonial masters in Europe.”</span></p><p><span style=font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;> </span><strong><span style=font-size: small;><span style=font-family: Calibri;>Pope rebuking church for neglecting poor</span></span></strong></p><p><span style=font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;> </span><span style=font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;>“Nothing indicates how far mainstream Christians have backslidden quite like the pope’s good old-fashioned religion being hailed as revolutionary.”</span></p><p><span style=font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;> </span><strong><span style=font-size: small;><span style=font-family: Calibri;>World paying tribute to Nelson Mandela</span></span></strong></p><p><span style=font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;> </span><span style=font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;>“As you see the most powerful people in the world falling all over themselves to sing Mandela’s praises in the coming days bear in mind that the people Mandela himself loved and admired most (outside of family members) are old comrades—most of whom you will never see on TV or social media.”</span></p>