Accessories After the Fact?
Maybe my logic is a little murky so bear with me. The D.C. Criminal code § 22-1806 determines the legal punishment for the crime of accessories after the fact. A permanent U.S. legal resident, and...
View ArticleBombing the “Mob”
I am on my way to the local hardware store to purchase a new mop and bucket. If you are wondering why, it is to mop up crocodile tears and angry drool. Before the day is over, the Republican machine...
View Article“Missing my daughters grow up, that’s what I was sentenced to.”-Cindy Shank
I sat down on Monday night October 15th to watch the HBO documentary The Sentence, and I made sure to have with me a box of tissues because I was warned, “be ready to cry.” What was not told to me, was...
View ArticleHow Long Are We Willing to Roll the Dice?
You have seen and heard the video and audio mashups this week of the President calling for; people to be carried out of campaign rally venues on stretchers, to be punched in the face and excuses being...
View ArticleI Am Not Afraid to Say It…
The last time we had a real crescendo of hatred in this country it lasted for more than 200 years, slavery and continued with explicit and implicit Jim Crow. We are nowhere close to a repeat of that...
View ArticleIndecency: I know it when I see it
Donald Trump’s degrading of the position of the President of the United States is summed up in the words of a former Associate Supreme Court Justice. Potter Stewart said in response to the pornography...
View ArticleA Spoon Full of Vinegar
I saw the words above some months ago and laughed out loud. I saw the same conglomeration of words repeated on a sign carried by a protester when Donald Trump inserted his presence where he was not...
View ArticleElectile Dysfunction
Ok, Democrats, I know you have not traditionally stood up to vote in midterm elections but now is not the time to go limp. Former President Bill Clinton lost his bid to move forward with a more...
View ArticleYour Choices...
The Reason I voted this morning for the Democrat…?InclusionHealthcarePeace The Middle ClassThe Reason I voted this morning for the Republican…?FearAngerand BOO!
View Article“…Run Like a Girl”
When I was a teen in the 70s the worse thing you could say to a hormone driven boy was, “you run like a girl.” Even with the progression of time men do not usually get better until we are pushed into...
View ArticleBernie, just a bit outside...
Former presidential candidate and newly re-elected Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders said last week, “I think you know there are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who...
View ArticleThe NRA Ignored the Good 'Victims' with a Gun
In a despicable show of gall and callous viciousness, the NRA attacked the men and women of the medical profession who literally plug the gushing dikes of blood, sometimes with their fingers, in too...
View ArticleCan Nancy Pelosi Herd the Cats?
The meaning of the idiom ‘herding cats’ has come to mean, for many, the wrangling of the unmanageable. In this case, it may be taking on a different meaning. Democrats, as usual, have taken the job...
View ArticleFool Me Once…
Those of you who have followed my writing exploits know that I am a big fan of nostalgic TV. I have often quoted Perry Mason’s favorite judge, Learned Hand. For a black man growing up in America,...
View ArticleComme ci, Comme ça
It is not new that Presidents are routinely responsible for the deaths of thousands, resulting from war, insufficient interdiction in famine, external strife, and just plain incompetence. The reaction...
View ArticleDecorum, Deference, and Respect
Donald Trump accused journalist Abby Phillip of asking, “stupid questions” then inferred that PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor was a racist for the questions she asked. He followed that by calling...
View ArticleWe Haven’t Heard the Haspel of it Yet…
Apparently, the “brave” men of the Trump administration are protecting their gentility behind the skirts of CIA Director Gina Haspel. Haspel, the only lofty Trump official who has reportedly heard the...
View ArticleThe Enigmatic Politics of George Herbert Walker Bush
I have never heard from anyone who sat across a table from the 41st President of the United States and spoke an ill word about him. Sure, opposing politicians had vehement disagreements but never a...
View ArticleThe Sinking of the Lie-tanic
Before Donald Trump emerges from a phone booth in his orange, white and blue spandex Tariff Man suit and builds his 30-40- or 50-foot high wall, I think Mr. Trump should not look at himself as a...
View ArticleCollusion and the Climate of Change
I married 41 years ago, and my ex-wife and I took a trip to visit her parents in North Carolina. I remember commenting on how nice it was to leave the snow in Washington, D.C. to enjoy some warmer...
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