Ed Said: Edward Gelernt’s comments on the world This week: DeflateGate At least during Watergate Nixon had the courtesy to go on air. This past Super Bowl ended in thrilling fashion. Jermaine Kearse’s pinball 33-yard catch with 1:06 left set up Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch’s surefire go-ahead touchdown, which neverRead More
Ed Said: Edward Gelernt’s comments on the world This week: Violent protests in Ferguson, Missouri “Ferguson.” The word immediately evokes conceptions of brutal police homicide, contemptible judicial injustice, and insidiously ever-present racism. It also elicits images of protests turned to guerrilla warfare, rubber bullets and Molotov Cocktails flying through theRead More
Ed Said: Edward Gelernt’s comments on the world This week: Ebola More Americans have been married to Kim Kardashian than have died from Ebola. Yes, it’s a virus. Yes, its fatality rate is about 50 percent, perhaps higher in this particular outbreak. But will it kill you? That depends onRead More
Ed Said: Edward Gelernt’s comments on the world This week: Celebrity nude photos scandal Digital idiocy is rampant. From insipid questions on Yahoo Answers to numbskulls’ posts on Facebook, a simple Google search can reveal flocks of women wondering if they should get maternity tests, high school students stating thatRead More
Ed Said: Edward Gelernt’s Comments on the World This Week: 2048 In the age of instantaneous entertainment, technological fads tend to shift from unknown to ubiquitous with shocking speed, and ebb from popular culture just as quickly. However, the most recent App Store phenomenon, 2048, seems to have, at leastRead More
