Huff and Puff… the Wolff is at the Door
I heard a TV pundit say yesterday the Eskimo natives have twenty-three different (arguably 50) ways to describe “snow” because it is such an integral part of their lives. According to writer Michael...
View ArticleThe Black and White of Residential and Presidential Politics
In the first of two terms for the first Black President of the United States, I remember seeing a poor taste, joke, poster that cemented my support for Barack Obama. The poster was the traditional...
View ArticleA Show of Farce
Once I stopped giggling I decided to put out some thoughts on the Alphonse-and-Gaston, bipartisan, approximate fifty-five-minute televised meeting with Congressional leadership and President Trump...
View ArticleFlushing the Don
Empty wagons and barrels, this time that familiar rattle is emanating from the cavernous skull of the current President of the United States, Donald John Trump Sr. Day after day columnist, bloggers and...
View ArticleThis Basket Case is Deplorable
Every discussion needs a foundation of fact to spur debate. From Funk & Wagnalls to Merriam- Webster, Urban and probably even the game Pictionary the definition of a racist is some variation of;...
View ArticleMy Great-Granny, Bruno and Me
Just prior to starting kindergarten in the late summer of 1961 I could stay up until 10 pm on Monday nights to watch WWWF professional wrestlers like Bruno Sammartino and ‘Baron’ Mikel Scicluna. I...
View ArticleWhere is the Bottom…?
Anyone with genuine wealth revels in their altruism and spreads their advantages to bring the less fortunate with them; Tom Steyer, and yes Oprah Winfrey to name a couple. Those who are pretenders to...
View ArticleThe Art of the Ordeal
As often as Donald Trump has mocked or reduced the standing of the United States judiciary, where is the honorable Learned Hand when we need him. Judge Hand, although never ascending to the Supreme...
View ArticleWe're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
In the 1933 film King Kong, Fay Wray escaped the clutches of the giant ape who eventually fell 1,250 feet to his death in the heart of New York City. Well, another Wray is threatening to pry open the...
View ArticleThe Mooch Told us Trump Surrogates have been Tying Themselves into Knots
The short-lived White House career of Anthony Scaramucci was most remembered for an implausible suggestion. He vividly proposed that former Trump crony, Steve Bannon, perform an anatomical function...
View ArticleShould Both Sides Do it?
If your position of strength is “both sides do it” maybe a reexamination of your position is required. The whining from Republicans seems to always end with, ‘but Hillary Clinton’ when Donald Trump...
View ArticleAbove the Law and Order?
I will not be the first or the last to say, the State of the dis-Union was on full display last night. Republicans raucously devouring every force-fed line, joke and lie from the President, and the...
View ArticleThe (George) Will of the Sheeple
Author, George F. Will has for a long time has been feted by both Republicans and moderate Democrats as the voice of reason. Generally, he sits prominently on some pundit filled panel show populated by...
View ArticleIgnorance of the Trump is No Excuse
As a young black man, I was suspicious of the FBI, via the Department of Justice, and it has lasted for the entirety of the fifty-three years since the assassination of Malcolm X and the fifty years...
View ArticleLet Them Eat Grist
A few days ago, Donald Trump held an impromptu campaign rally in a Cincinnati manufacturing plant. As is his custom he told a lie or three whipped up the crowd with red meat and added new grist for...
View ArticleBlack History Month- A Decent Day
Six years ago, this month, a shooter either murdered or defended himself against seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin, depending on your perspective. On February 26, 2012, the world was rocked by the...
View ArticleThe Banana Republican
For months and months on end, we have been a slave to the easy joke. Terms like Cheeto-lini and Agent Orange are in the comedic lexicon. The real moniker for the Republican standard-bearer, Donald...
View ArticleThe Future is Not a Thing of the Past
I was asked by a member of a predominantly white listening group yesterday, “how can I discuss Trump with you, if you always say people who voted for him are racist? Granted, that is a good question,...
View ArticleHomina, Homina, Homina!!!
Back in the late nineteen fifties when America thought it was funny that Ralph Kramden threatened to launch his wife, Alice, to the moon with a sock to the jaw, the laughing has stopped--- thankfully....
View ArticleAmerica, the Most Unstable Place on Earth?
It must be said that with the forty-year stranglehold of influence from the National Rifle Association, neither political party has distinguished itself. Added to that is the insistence of the...
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