We Have to Raise the Bar
I listened to President Trump last night address the South Korean National Assembly, regaling them with both praises of their native golfers and horror stories. The problem is the world is so jaded by...
View ArticleTrump has Exhausted my Thesaurus
Donald Trump is not the first or last politician who is, has, or will lie. The accepted cliché of the dishonest pol is the conventional wisdom generally used as a hammer to bludgeon ideas or...
View ArticleRoy Moore… Meet Anthony Weiner
A dead girl or a live boy has been re-purposed by Republicans. Now it is either a live Democrat or a morally dead pedophile. For years amoral behavior has been defined by politicians through the...
View ArticleTake America Forward Again
The recent rise of White Supremacy, misogyny and the idea of ethnic cleansing is not new.Following the most horrific era in American history, slavery, the Reconstruction Era was established. Rights of...
View ArticleGame of Groans
Like most of you, it does not take long before my daily groan in disbelief or frustration at a move from the Trump/Conservative regime, creates echoes in my home. It has nothing to do with partisan...
View ArticleNo, No, No…No, ifs, ands, or Mansplaining
We now have two stark examples of powerful men behaving badly with women, to steal a phrase. Without her knowledge, permission or even consciousness, Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) physically and...
View ArticleThe Life of Sharon Tate and the Death of Charles Manson
In August of 1969, Charles Manson converted a group of young social misfits into brutal mass murderers. One of his victims was a model and actress; I was 13 years old. Two years and five months prior,...
View ArticleA Denial, Is That All It Takes
The latest law and order Republican President has officially declared the investigatory process useless. On the lawn of the White House yesterday, President Trump told us what he thinks about accused...
View ArticleYour Face is Going to Freeze That Way…
When I was a child and would pout at the thought of not getting my way or an extra piece of candy, my great-grandmother would say, “you better straighten up your face before it freezes that way.” What...
View ArticleI'll Be Back
Okay, okay the thought of Donald Trump coming back from a future of racism and oligarch rule, in a time displacement sphere from The Terminator movie seems farfetched, but something is going on here....
View ArticlePeople of Color are not Grammatical Modifiers.
I have a short story. In my late twenties, I worked a few summers at a now-defunct hardware chain on the east coast. I was married with two children wanting to finish an advanced degree and stuck in a...
View ArticleMichael Flynn’s Flip, Exposes the GOP's Flop
On December 29, 2016, then President Obama announced sanctions against the Russian government, that same day Michael Flynn elicited a promise from Russian officials, that Vladimir Putin would not...
View ArticleThat is Just Piling On
For most of my life when the faces of celebrities, appeared above or below TV breaking news banners, I was prepared to cry because of their death. Now I am prepared to cry because they are sex...
View ArticleMake America Grating Again
Remember when your parents yelled at you and your friends for slamming the screen door or not washing your hands before you grabbed something from the Fridge. “You guys are grating on my nerves!”...
View ArticleDoing the Right Thing, for All the Right Reasons…
Let me start by saying I am a big fan of Senator Al Franken. Starting from his days as a writer and infrequent performer on Saturday Night Live, to his Air America liberal radio commentary. I remain a...
View ArticleIs a Picture Really Worth a Thousand Words?
To be accurate, there were four-hundred three legible words that preceded the phrase from Donald Trump that literally ‘grabbed’ the attention of the world. Compare this to a 2006 photo from then comic...
View ArticleTake your Bow Ms. Manigault-Newman…
The coincidence is not lost on me that a black woman either quit or as most believe was relieved of her duties the day after 98 percent of Black female Alabamians put the first Democrat into statewide...
View ArticleWhat Happened to the Republican Party I knew and Now Hate?
I was a small child during the Cuban Missile Crisis, amidst the GOP fears that a Democratic President [John Kennedy] would give away the store to the Soviet Union or ensnare the U.S. in a world-ending...
View ArticleThe Panic is Growing
Why is Rex Tillerson still serving at the pleasure of the President? Conservative media and Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee are on the verge of running through the streets and...
View ArticleMerry Diversity
Note: This will be my last column for a week or two when most of you read this I will be under a surgeon’s knife or in a recovery room. I am literally paying to have my throat cut-- and put back...
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