America, Your Slip is Showing
Back when women and little girls wore slips beneath their dresses, the worst thing that could happen would be to leave home with one’s slip hanging below the skirt hemline. Even more humiliating was if...
View ArticleRepublicans Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Yesterday’s failed vote by Republicans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is part of a continued strategy to portray Democrats as a danger to America. In reality, once again, the...
View ArticleLordy, Not Another Jim Comey!
Yesterday, a combative and rightfully angry President Joe Biden fought back against a wholly disrespectful—to the rule of law—report from the Department of Justice. Special counsel Robert Hur found...
View ArticleIs It Biden’s Memory or Americans Forgetting?
Like sharks sensing chum in the water, the jaws of the American media have been chewing on President Biden as if he were Quint slipping off the back of the boat. The gnashing and chomping is full of...
View ArticleCommentary|| Republicans Would Rather Be Shifty Than Swiftie
The Republican party has defined their shifting landscape as whatever Donald Trump wants. The party that once flag waved like a queen at the Miss America Pageant is siding with despots, dictators, and...
View ArticleFani Willis Takes a Stand
Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis had a Perry Mason moment in a Georgia courthouse yesterday when she appeared ready to testify in what seemed unbeknownst to her district attorney...
View ArticleThat’ll Learn Ya’
Americans have been here before; remember 2016. When former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was weak from the flu and exhaustive campaigning and was seen being helped to her SUV, the press and...
View ArticleThe World Trump Federation
The word cult is tossed around about Trump devotees, but I think there is a closer comparison. Even I have written in the past about the blind worship of Trump, who tells his followers to only believe...
View ArticleSo, Help Us God
America shrouds its theocracy for the most part. We do let it slip out by invoking the name of God on our other god, money, and at the end of oaths to the Constitution. For example, a new president’s...
View ArticleNormalizing Racism?
The media seems dead set on being complicit in normalizing Donald Trump’s betrayal, racism, xenophobia, and ignorance of foreign and domestic policy. Instead of an honest analysis of what Donald Trump...
View ArticleBarefoot, Pregnant, and in the GOP
You cannot feed, bathe, or coo over it, but you can be jailed if you purposely or accidentally touch it incorrectly. Last week, an Alabama court ruled that a petri dish is a womb, and if you trip or...
View ArticleIsrael’s Right Wing is Broken
The Israeli government lobbed a symbolic bomb into a group of starving and desperate Palestinians yesterday. The day started with the news of throngs of hungry Palestinians, ostensibly lured into an...
View ArticleFeelings are Not Facts
Not so long ago in America, people would argue about how to act on facts. Now, we argue about the facts. When it was proven that cigarettes are a carcinogen, we put warning labels on the package. Speed...
View ArticleBetter to Bet on Democracy
With the barrage of numbers coming at you during the coverage of the Super Tuesday primaries, one might be tempted to place a bet with one of the many sportsbooks you see advertising during sporting...
View ArticleThis is Joe Biden
President Joe Biden took over an hour of the American citizens' time last night and reassured them. As much as many on the right would have liked President Biden to drool on his bib or call for a...
View ArticleGaza-nam
As a child of the 60s and 70s, and near the end of the Vietnam War, I was subject to the draft and saw high school classmates leave to serve and come home in flag-draped coffins. I remember the initial...
View ArticleBending Hur
Sitting through congressional oversight hearings is like listening to Freddy Krueger drag his nails down a blackboard. I can remember when congressional oversight was just that: congressional...
View ArticleAmerica is in Labor, and Splitting the Baby is not the Answer
The long, laborious, and unnecessary(two-week delayed) judgment by Judge Scott McAfee in the Georgia election interference case was released this morning. After a three-day-long probe into the sex life...
View ArticleHope and Deranged
I often like to look in the rearview mirror to get one last look at the places I have visited. Whether leaving one of my sons’ homes after visiting my grandchildren or the lights of Broadway....
View ArticleKate, Donald and the American Press
I am a fan of the press, whether in print or television. I grew up anticipating the delivery of the Washington Post before school and my great-uncle coming home after work with a copy of the Evening...
View ArticleIndemnify, Immunize, and All About Me
The recent sentencing of six Mississippi police officers known as the ‘Goon Squad’ for the torture, sexual assault, and maiming of two black men would be condoned if Donald Trump were to get back in...
View ArticleMissing the Point on Ronna McDaniel
Former Meet the Press host Chuck Todd lashed out at his NBC employer for hiring the recently released head of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel. Todd lambasted the network for...
View ArticleThe Lowest Common Denominator
The words the lowest common denominator are amongst the cliches we use to demonstrate hatred born of ignorance. As in, sinking to the lowest common denominator to describe an opponent whose barbs...
View ArticleThe Complex but Simple Political Life of Joseph Lieberman
Former United States Senator Joseph Lieberman died Wednesday, reportedly from complications after a fall. Poetically, Senator Lieberman's fall from Democratic grace was almost as deadly to his career....
View ArticlePro-Fetus is Not Pro-Life
In 1965, as part of a thirteen-member panel under the Democratic administration of former President Lyndon Johnson, Jule Sugarman proved what pro-life means. Mr. Sugarman was pro-life in a unique way....
View ArticleThe Patriarch, The Sergeant and The “Fiddler”
When Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun debuted on Broadway in 1959, I was too young, too far away, and too poor to see it. When I reached my teens, I saw the movie version and was...
View ArticleThe Normalization of Political Violence
I was a teenager in the 1960s and lived through some of the most turbulent years of political violence since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. So tumultuous that singer Dion linked them in the...
View ArticleGo Ahead, Just Say It!
Ironically, as a black man, I cannot say it and remain in the public forum. For years, white colleagues in academia and entertainment have pondered: why can you say it and I cannot? Before the great...
View ArticleThe Party of Lincoln?
The Republican party is materially fond of calling themselves the party of Lincoln. They pull on that thread, presumably to stitch together the appearance of their civil rights bona fides, without ever...
View ArticleO.J. is No More
I woke up yesterday morning to the news of Orenthal James (O.J.) Simpson's death; O.J. is No More. What should have been the story of the American Dream ended in infamy. For many Americans, yesterday...
View ArticleConspiracy, Justice, and Trump
For centuries, mystery novels have been popular relaxation, fodder for thought, and grist for the mill, enticing the thinker, daydreamer, and skeptic. Today, reminiscent of the famed Bronco car chase...
View ArticleBack to the Future
Science fiction has long dabbled in the idea of time travel, both forward and backward—ask kindly “Doc” Brown about his plutonium-powered DeLorean. In 1978, when Superman flew so fast around the Earth...
View ArticleDonald Trump is More Dangerous When Scared
Conservatives, by definition, are slow to change, if at all. Changes with time and circumstances mark a progressive society. History is its own proof. We once burned so-called witches at the stake,...
View ArticleAre Democrats Obliged to Save Mike Johnson?
Saturday morning, Congress took what, by most accounts, was a simple vote and long overdue. The U.S. allocated 26.4 billion to Israel in three separate funding voting measures, including humanitarian...
View ArticleWhen a Lie Obscures the Truth
For what it is worth, Healing Soul Hypnosis describes mass hypnosis as where a massive part of the populace focuses on a leader(s) or series of events, with their attention focusing on a small point or...
View ArticleWill Protesters Repeat the Mistakes of 1968 in Chicago?
Ironically, those who fail to learn from past mistakes are destined to repeat them—this overused and self-explanatory old saying has been repeated in various ways over the years. The Democratic...
View ArticleIt’s Not an Attack on Trump if It’s True
In this world of social media, influencers, and downright bad taste in the cyber world, we need to be careful and not call the truth a slam or an attack. Saturday night was the White House...
View ArticleIt’s TIME: Mein Trumpf
There has been a quiet uproar about the latest Time article interview with Donald Trump, in which he essentially reiterated ‘Mein Kampf.’ He talked about monitoring women’s pregnancies—menstrual...
View ArticleWhenever You Think You Have Seen It All From the GOP
The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), a part of Joe Biden's infrastructure package, is a lifeline for families struggling with internet bills. While the media is busy chasing after every...
View ArticleUnfortunately, It’s Not Personal, It’s Business
Draft Beer, not boys! Hell no, we won’t go! No Justice, no peace! We Shall Overcome! Protests in the 60s were personal. The Pro-Palestinian protests, as justified as they may be, have become a...
View ArticleWhat is the Secret to How Donald Trump Corrupts People
While following the Donald Trump election campaign finance trial yesterday, I was struck when Stormy Daniels said she did not want to sleep with Mr. Trump. After repeatedly rebuffing Mr. Trump’s...
View ArticleTo Jail or Not to Jail
The most instructive and constructive lesson we should have learned from the pardoning of Richard Nixon is that it wrought Donald Trump. Conventional wisdom is pretty unanimous that Gerald Ford, who...
View ArticleYes, Judge Alito, America is in Distress, but Not Why You Think
For those familiar with basketball, you might recall a famous quote from former New York Knick Michael Ray Richardson, “The ship be sinking.” This quote seems fitting when we consider the recent...
View ArticleIf It Walks Like a Duck, Quacks Like a Duck, It’s Probably a Reich
While the press and, consequently, the public seem enthralled with the back-and-forth between Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Crockett’s real oversight is ignored. The...
View Article(Tricky) Nikki: Hypocrite be Thy Name
After January 6, 2021, “He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again.” In October of that...
View ArticleListen to the Woman
In the 1992 basketball movie White Men Can’t Jump, [I refuse to acknowledge the remake] after much consternation and loyalty to a buddy and not his woman, Billy Hoyle (Woody Harrelson) is told by...
View ArticleNo, Mr. Trump—Biden Did Not Set You Up
Although the case against Donald Trump, which was about falsifying business records in pursuit of a political aim, featured the testimony of an adult movie star and a legal fixer, the case boiled down...
View ArticleNo Need for Democrats to be Timid
I have had my differences with former DNC Chair Donna Brazile, but her fearless stance on Sunday was truly inspiring. On ABC’s version of Let Us Tell You What You Think, Brazile boldly referred to...
View ArticleGOP Heads are Exploding, Trying to Hold Two Thoughts at Once
In GOP circles, President Joe Biden is the bad guy. Mr. Biden again tried to fill their Christmas stocking with a stricter immigration policy (Trump replaced sugar plums with coal the first time...
View ArticleByron Donalds Alone in the Bar
The Republican party and conservatives want America to believe that the last person at the end of the bar at 2 a.m. is our only chance for a fun night. Conversely, like the bleached blonde in clear...
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