The iPINIONS Journal : 2020 in Real Time

ANTHONY L. HALL takes aim at the global events of 2020 with a unique and refreshing perspective.

Some of the topics in this volume include:Governments ordering lockdowns to combat Covid-19"Telling people to lockdown to combat Covid makes about as much sense as it would've been to tell people to stop having sex to fight HIV. ... Mandating wearing masks, like wearing seatbelts (or promoting the use of masks, like the use of condoms), would have been a lot cheaper and more effective."Trump failing to defend America against Russian cyber attacks"America is now a certifiably dysfunctional, dystopian, and defenseless mess.

Superpower?! Hell, even the Roman Empire was never this, er, messed up before the fall.

Evidently that 'shining city on a hill' was just the flickering embers of a supernova."Kim declaring nuclear deal with Trump a bust"Kim Jong-un is feeling like a woman scorned.

Never mind that he behaved throughout his affair with Donald Trump like a shrew-too uptight to screw."Harry and Meghan announcing split from royal family"Most Britons will feel about Meghan breaking up the royals the way they felt about Yoko breaking up the Beatles."'The Last Dance' revealing how Bulls paid Jordan like a king, Pippen like a pauper"Michael is clearly the NBA's GOAT.

Unfortunately, Pippen is arguably its greatest goat of all time."Chinese leaders quarantining millions to contain Covid-19"Practice from quarantining millions of Uyghur Muslims for years in religious-cleansing camps means that they are doing so in this case with Nazi-like efficiency."Democrats trying to impeach Trump"Even if lead House manager Rep.

Adam Schiff were Christ incarnate, he would still be unable to break the cult-like loyalty Republicans show their two-legged golden calf."Republicans bending over to be cuckolded by Trump"The more he humiliates white Republican men the more they like him.

Hell, some like Senator Ted Cruz of Texas even like him when he humiliates their wives, which puts a fetishistic twist on cuckoldry that is just too perverse for words."White cops patrolling Black communities"It's a curious thing that Black men seem so willing to cede that role (of protecting their own) to white men, who seem all too eager to patrol Black communities like invading soldiers."Mary Trump's tell-all selling like hotcakes"Given the egregious way Donald exaggerates his wealth, the irony cannot be lost on Mary that this book could make her the richest Trump of them all.

It might not be revenge, but it would be sweet."