The Racist to the Bottom
The need of Republicans to lower the public discourse and pander to the racist nature of its base is becoming an epidemic. In the last twenty-four hours, Chris Christie, has called the...
View ArticleYES “ME” CAN!
In an effort to make some sort of rational sense of the apparent insecurity of so many, President Obama took action in an attempt to slow down the proliferation of illegal gun use in America....
View ArticleThe Fears of a Clown
The man who wants to” Make America Great Again” is reveling in the loss of four-thousand five hundred jobs, held by Macy’s employees.The jobs figure for the country were released today with...
View ArticleThe Outer Limits of Sanity
“There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling the transmission. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and...
View ArticleMaking America, “Hate” Again!
“The state of the union is strong,” President Obama, declared at the end of his televised message in front of Congress and the American people last night. The ugly Trump mythology of America...
View ArticleScorn in the USA
Rafael Edward” Ted” Cruz is angry that he was mocked in a vulgar manner by the New York Daily News.Mr. Cruz, who has compared the role out of Obamacare, to Nigerian scammers, “you know the Nigerian...
View ArticleBlack Lives Splatter
Fifty-foot Riverine Command Boats are far less dangerous than an unarmed Black man running away. Conspicuously, the right wing freak-out over the sixteen-hour capture and detention of ten US sailors,...
View ArticleTed Cruz, good ole Southern Boy
OK, let’s stop the Rafael bashing, he’s a good ole southwest boy, southwest Canada, but a southwest boy nonetheless. One could be led to believe, that Ted is some sort of phony, just because a few...
View ArticlePalin-around, Again
Leave it to the New York Daily News, to use an insulting derogatory headline to make a point. This time they’ve gone too far, they’ve made fun of the stupid.The January 20th 2016 cover of the NY Daily...
View ArticleA Personal Story
This is a look into a small window of how and why anger stays with you. When I was six years old, growing up in Washington, DC, in the early 1960’s racial discrimination was an unspoken rule...
View ArticleForrest Trump
“Listen you promise me something. Ok? Just if you’re ever in trouble, don’t be brave. You just run, Ok? Just run away.” - Jenny Curran to Forrest Gump, from the 1994 film, Forrest Gump....
View ArticleDebate vs. Lunacy?
I watched a group of what is being described as, by some, “ unhinged lunatics” last night and was appalled. So I turned off the Iowa Republican Debate and watched the video below, courtesy of The...
View ArticleOpen the Blinds
I understand the intent and meaning when the discussion of race is broached and White people say, “I really don’t see color.” It’s okay to open the blinds, take a look, there may be a rainbow after the...
View ArticleTrump-ed Up and Out-FOX-ed
The Marvin Gaye family, settled the question of musical blurred lines in court, the Trump, FOX News, conflagration, has melted into a blob of competing self-contradictions. We can start with the...
View ArticleThe Evil of Two Less-ers
Bernie Sanders, compassionately laments a criminal justice system that euthanizes, admittedly, its worse elements. Ted Cruz wants to indiscriminately murder, men, women, babies the elderly and...
View ArticleThe Bush, Shush
The Bush family, has been visible in Presidential politics for at least four decades and none has been brave enough to stick to principle.George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United...
View ArticleThe Cannibalism of the Democratic Party
Parts of the Democratic Party have decided to engage in self-immolation and feast on the charred remains of the Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton campaigns. As a staunch liberal and supporter of the...
View ArticleBeing Sad, Silent or Black
There are areas of discomfort that so trouble us, we take actions that are sometimes so passively aggressive that we miss their meaning.When we are sad and cry, people offer tissues, not to sympathize...
View ArticleThe Scalia’s of Justice Are Balanced
I took a day and a moment to breathe, after learning of the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. I thought of terms like, respectful of the dead, respect for legacy and honor. Having lost a...
View ArticleDemocrats, Liberals and Progressives... Oh My!
Whatever moniker you hang on your reason for exercising common sense, stop allowing it to eat our founders in search of a perfect meal. In the past few days Democratic Congressman John Lewis, former...
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