Am I the only one who sees the Israeli-Hamas conflict as psychotic?  Am I the only one who wasn’t surprised when it arrived at a whole new level of savagery? If the Israelis in any way still wondered what Hamas thinks of them, now they know: Hamas’ hatred burns so intensely it wants to chop […]

The last episode of Winning Time’s second season on HBO charts the 1984 NBA finals between Magic Johnson’s LA Lakers and Larry Bird’s Boston Celtics, an animosity great enough for the Boston fans to pummel the Laker’s bus in a flurry of garbage as it pulled out of Boston Garden.  In a signature brutal moment […]