Strange Fruit
Today, if your favorite icon cuts their hair, social media will not only inform you but has a photograph you can access on your, PC, tablet or phone within minutes. It was not always that way, despite...
View ArticleThe Theater of the Absorbed
The self-absorption of the President, his staff, and Cabinet has truly reached the official status of absurdity. Donald Trump literally tossed truth in the air yesterday and repeated claims of Mexican...
View ArticleThe Bend Justifies the Means
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, Scott Pruitt, is not only adding muck to the swamp, but he is so mired in unethical scandals, Benedict Arnold is hiding his face in his hands. Before I...
View ArticleBawl of Confusion
In 1970, songwriters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong gave the world a Ball of Confusion, voiced by the tall, tan, talented, Temptations. Their melodic ball has now become a confused, swirling...
View ArticleA President on the Edge
On the cusp of the Summer of 2015, a new candidate for the presidency of the United States took an escalator ride down from an upper floor of Trump Tower. Since that day the country has been fighting a...
View ArticleStarbucks is not Serving its Coffee…Black?
I live in the city of Philadelphia,Pa. and some of you may have heard, or seen, the viral video of the two young black men arrested for being in Starbucks with threatening melanin. I guess that meant...
View ArticleThe Cohen Heads
In 1993 we were introduced to an interplanetary couple. The pointy-headed group consisting of Beldar, Prymaat and Connie were a nebulous family of aliens that made us laugh and recognize our own...
View ArticleSaid the Spider to the F.B.I.
The last time this country took the low road of destructive innuendo, personal grievance and character assassination against homegrown patriots was during the 1954 Army-McCarthy Hearings. The...
View ArticleDeath Brings out the Honor in Most of Us
My late great-grandmother used an old adage many, many times, which I am sure was a variation of something taught to her, ‘enough is enough and too much stinks,” she’d say. I sat in my living room...
View ArticlePardon me, I’m Jack Johnson
President Donald Trump has the absolute right to pardon, with some limits mandated by state laws. Caught in the middle of his not so clandestine messages, to Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort, to keep...
View ArticleThe Fall of America’s Cad
April 26, 2018: 3:29 pm. As of this writing, I am watching the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania prosecutor, Kevin Steele, uncomfortably wind his way through the post-guilty verdict press conference in...
View ArticleBetween a Cop and a Hard Place
“I love the old days…‘They'd be carried out on a stretcher, folks,’ You know, I love our police, and I really respect our police, and they're not getting enough. They’re not.” Exactly what was the...
View ArticleKing of the Bungle
An old African proverb reads: “If the surviving lions don’t tell their story, the hunters get all the credit.” A lion of industry and former Trump Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who is also a former...
View ArticleLimitations, the Most Insincere Form of Flattery
Up until 2014 basketball star LeBron James, before tip-off routinely cupped his hand, filled his palm with chalk and tossed it in the air after greeting the scorer’s table personnel. James wears...
View ArticleRudy, Rudy, Rudy!!!
The motion picture Rudy, about an undersized, overachieving, walk-on football player for Notre Dame University has a lot of parallels to the current Rudy dominating the headlines. The criticism for...
View ArticleRussian to Judgment
From the moment Marilyn Monroe blew out John F. Kennedy’s birthday candle and Bill Clinton shared a cigar with Monica Lewinsky, presidents dating back to Jefferson have dotted American history with...
View ArticleA Leader not Suitable for TV
It is so hard not to go off on daily rants against the, debasing, defiling, and destructive anti- morality that resides in the White House—Whew I feel better! It accomplishes no real goal to insult a...
View ArticleBeware of Wolves in Cheap Clothing
Do not be fooled by the glib circumlocution skills of George Will or the scathing vitriolic condemnation of Donald Trump by Rick Wilson or Jennifer Rubin. Will got a lot of praise a week ago for his...
View ArticleMake China Great Again
Surprise, surprise, Donald Trump is ready to yank the rug out from under about 64 million of his closest friends. Sixty-four million is the approximate number of actual votes Donald Trump garnered in...
View ArticleReally, did Trump Quote Malcolm?
The panic has officially arrived, Donald Trump quoted Malcolm X in a tweet. Despite the fact the President probably thinks Malcolm X is the latest Avenger film, he quoted David Asman...
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