Month: March 2022

How the Will Smith slap smarts like the Tabasco mosquito

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Unlike Will Smith and the Tabasco mosquito (1998 Super Bowl commercial), wise folks ponder before plunging.

Both made impulsive choices with long term consequences.

When Chris Rock joked about Will Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair loss, calling her “G. I. Jane 2” at the 2022 Oscar’s, Will bowed up like a banty rooster and strutted to the stage.

He slapped the comedian host on prime time TV and yelled obscenities.

Will Smith slaps Rock
94th Academy Awards Oscars Show/Brian Snyder/Reuters

The Tabasco mosquito in the famous Super Bowl commercial acted on a similar impulse.

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Ukrainian compassion is the compass for world peace

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Ukrainian compassion and strength is what the world needs now.

Compassion for world peace
Captured Russian soldier consoled by Ukrainian soldiers/DailyNationToday

Love sweet love. Not weak love.

Strong love.

Be perfect in love even with your enemies.

Here’s a smart way to put the fire out of attack.

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Zelenskyy’s stand: How to fight when all looks lost

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy knows how to fight.

Fight for a nation
Zelenskyy on the screen in Prague, March 4, 2022/Michaela Rihova/CTK via AP Images

No panic. No doubt. No retreat.

Last stands are usually doomed. Otherwise, it’s not a last stand, right?

Yet, they often signify a turning point where the group expending its all in a final act emerges the victor.

For this to happen in Ukraine, we remember two examples.

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