2020-11

Episode 11: Female Teachers Behaving like Pedophile Priests

The phenomenon of female teachers having sexual relationships with their students is foremost about child abuse. Which is why it upends so many conventional presumptions - about everything from women as nurturers to women as inured to the basic instinct for sexual conquest, especially of children.
Yet female teachers are rivaling pedophile priests (and Boy Scout leaders) when it comes to sexually abusing young boys.
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Length:  10 min 33 sec

Episode 10: African Migrants Imposing Reverse Colonialism on Europeans…

Just years ago, reports on migration to Europe gave the impression that Africans were threatening a 21st-century version of the colonization Europeans perpetrated in Africa throughout the 19th. In reality, Europeans were treating African migrants like the mother who wants nothing to do with the bastard child who shows up at her doorstep as a teenager. Not to mention the migrants who die trying to establish that umbilical cord of obligation.
But today, media focus on other global events - like the US presidential election and Covid-19 - is such that you’d never know African migration remains every bit as vexing for Europeans and humbling for Africans as it was back then.
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Length:  18 min 11 sec

Episode 9: Benedict and Francis: Two Popes in a Pickle

For years now, the Catholic Church has been defined as much by sex-abuse scandals as by worldwide charities. But simmering conflicts between abdicated Pope Benedict XVI and reigning Pope Francis – on issues like married priests, same-sex marriages, and even pedophile priests  – threaten a holy schism that would make those scandals and charities seem irrelevant.
 
After all, sectarian tensions between Benedict's conservative and Francis's liberal acolytes could blow the Catholic Church asunder.
 
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ipinionsj@gmail.com
Length:  20 min 11 sec

Episode 8: Dissing British Monarchy to Mourn American Democracy

Arguably, the stress the US presidential election induced rivals the fear the Covid pandemic has this year. But, while we have to wait for a vaccine to allay the latter, I can think of no better way to alleviate the former than a talk on the fairytale lives of the British royal family.
However, if you are a fan of royalty, I feel obliged to warn you to listen at your own risk.
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Length:  19 min 53 sec