“I think I go back to San Juan. I know a boat you can get on. Everyone will give big cheer. Everyone there will have moved here.” West Side Story, 1957
February 11, 2026, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
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Who can’t be outraged when an injustice is committed? We can. Of course, we can!
We can feel shocked and angry when P Diddy ends up in jail just because he held baby oil laden “Freak Parties.”
Granted, they weren’t victimless crimes. Actually, they were crimes. But what else could Diddy do?
Some say he could have done something “good,” for “his people.”
After all, President Lincoln went out on a limb for people like Diddy. Black people. Maybe Diddy could have returned the favor. Pay it forward.
The least that Diddy could have done, some say, was to be grateful. Because of what Lincoln and this country did for him.
But once you start thinking like that, you're opening up a whole can of worms.
Controversial things. Like the Olympics.
Years ago, Jim McKay and the whole country thrilled to the athletic skills exhibited at the Olympics, watching eagerly. And the participants themselves were, there’s that word again, “grateful.”
But not freestyle skiier Hunter Hess. He made this year’s Team U.S.A., but felt bad. Not because he made the team, but because he hates ICE.
He said it was “a little hard” for him to “wear Team USA gear,” as there was “a lot going on that” he isn’t “the biggest fan of.”
“Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the U.S.,” he added snidely.
Stand-up guy that he is, he later retracted his comments.
Entitled. Ungrateful. Words like that spring to mind. And the resolve not to watch Hess, or the Olympics, for that matter.
But what can you expect when Associated Press, formerly a Gold Standard news gathering organization, accused several European nations of a “lack of diversity,” claiming their Olympic teams were “overwhelmingly white.”
“In the Milan Winter Olympics,” AP accused, “Sweden is sending a team made up almost exclusively of ethnically Swedish athletes.”
Anyhoo. Speaking of not watching the half time show at this year’s Super Bowl.
Bad Bunny is a bad bunny. His lyrics, when translated, focused on his genitals, women’s genitals, and what he likes to do with both.
The Bun carried this theme throughout his performance, complete with violent twerking, and close up and personal contact between guy and gal dancers, without the baby oil.
His show waxed poetic about his love for Puerto Rico. The sugar plantations. Outdoor cafes. Sort of a Puerto Rican Bananas and Rice.
Now Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, and its resident do not have U.S. voting rights.
Since Bunny, like P Diddy, made a fortune living in the U.S., maybe he could do something “good” for the folks back home, the place he idolized on stage.
He could fight for Puerto Rico becoming a state. Make things better. Instead nothing has changed about the sunny island since West Side Story.
But, no. The rapper who is worth $100 million American bucks, chose instead to give a musical middle finger to the country where he earned those bucks.
His bio says he’s an LGBTQ+ activist, and supports those rights in Puerto Rico.
And that’s about it.
But, hold on! There is a silver lining to all of this.
First of all, Bunny’s lyrics were in Spanish, so nobody knew what he was saying. Bueno.
Second of all, The Washington Post’s Shane O’Neill described the show as “wholesome,” and chock a block full of “family values.”
Curious. I know.
But there is a silver lining in that, too. Washington Post owner, Jeff Bezos, just fired a third of the paper’s staff.
It's claimed it is because the paper was losing $100 million dollars a year. And that's probably because of reviews like this.
Firing? If that's what it takes, that is what I call “doing something good.”
Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots