Opinion: Jussie, Jussie, Jussie
Predictably and unashamed, the right-wing could not wait to point fingers at the “woke snowflakes” who supported the story of actor Jussie Smollett’s hoax. For those of you who are unaware of the...
View ArticleTragic Comedy
An old formula of comedy asserts; tragedy plus time equals comedy—aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the show? The Republican party, since 2007, has turned that axiom on its head. They...
View ArticleOpinion: The Fox in the Hen House
I can confirm that Donald Trump was right; voter fraud did happen in the 2020 election. If you remember, a band of middle-agers, septuagenarians, and I would guess octogenarians paraded through their...
View ArticleOpinion: What We Say in Private
The then-Vice President and General manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, Al Campanis, was questioned by Ted Koppel on his late-night news and public interest program Nightline in 1987. Al...
View ArticleBest Served Cold
Some accuse Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) of attacking the Build Back Better Plan as the Japanese did at Pearl Harbor, deceptive negotiation, secret planning of the assault, and finally, the bombshell....
View Article…and the Republican horse you rode in on!
As we near the end of 2021 and with Christmas around the corner, the Republican Grinch continues to be a mean one. In early November, when 49 of the fifty members of the current GOP in the Senate voted...
View ArticleOver St. Louis and Through the Woods
Most of the warnings about traveling for the holidays have centered around Covid-19. Lost in the whirlwind of vaccinations, testing, and the need for double masking is the physical ordeal of traveling...
View ArticleForever May She Wave...?
A few days before Christmas, I was in a mall parking lot just before closing. The store lights were dimming, and the parking lot was emptying. After a long day of haggling, customer complaints, and...
View ArticleTemper Tantrum
Whether at home, in the frozen food aisle at the grocery store, or the toy section, many of us have dealt with a child throwing a tantrum. Unfortunately, the GOP has subjected the country to a temper...
View ArticleWho Cares…?
My level of resentment rises when I see family members and other loved ones suffer high fevers, hacking coughs, and isolation within their own homes. One runs the risk of sounding callous or worst when...
View ArticleA SEAL HERE: DENIAL, LIES, AND CONSPIRACY
Once one denies the provable truth, the only recourse for a scoundrel is lies and conspiracy. As much as the Capitol rioters try and soothe their bruised feelings by pretending that destroying...
View ArticleOpinion: Polite Applause is Enough, not an Ovation
There is a funny and oft-repeated line from the standup comedy act of Chris Rock—for some (expletive) they supposed to do! Rock’s punchline was a rebuff to one wanting congratulations for accomplishing...
View ArticleMr. Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier was a dual citizen of the Bahamas and the United States, born in Miami when his parents were in Florida. He has shown brightly in my life since 1966. The Bahamas’ national flower is the...
View ArticleIt was the Onions
In the seventies, one of my best childhood friends and I decided to see a movie one evening. My friend Keith was a big guy, over six feet tall and well over 200 lbs. He was not a football player like...
View ArticleBlame to go around…
Blaming Joe Biden for the coronavirus spread is like blaming the surgeon for not saving the victim of a gunshot wound to the head. American conservatives, and a willing press, have conveniently...
View ArticleOpinion: Banana Republicans
Anti-American Republicans seem to be stunned into obsequiousness, or the fear of not having a white majority makes them surrender to their worst instincts. The Republican party, through their...
View ArticleMa, Reverend King, is dead!
My great-grandmother, we called her Ma, died at the age of 79, about eleven years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She was a broad-chested woman with hips just as complete, and I...
View ArticleA Conversation with Pessimism and Delusion
I had a couple of conversations over the holidays, the first with Superlib and next Conserva-wing. Superlib was introspective, offered me half his plant-based burger, and suggested I wash it down with...
View ArticleOpinion: Thanks for the reminder Mitch
[Poor white men]“ate Jim Crow, a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than the black man. And he ate Jim Crow.” ~Rev. Dr. Martin...
View Article“Tamper” Tantrums
Republicans who threw a truthtampering tantrum that manifested into an insurrection are destroying this country. A famous and heated argument between Archie Bunker and Edith’s cousin Maude Findlay is a...
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