PUMAS, BUSTERS and SARANDON
Not since racist Democratic Governor George Wallace stood in the doorway of the Foster Auditorium, at the University of Alabama, to block Black students Vivian Monroe and James Hood from attending, has...
View ArticleI am a Unicorn
I am told by news media, pundits and Bernie or Bust(ers) that I do not exist. I am an ‘enthusiastic’ Hillary Clinton supporter. Somehow, the Sanders campaign has become a metaphor for purity and if you...
View ArticleAR-15s, Exactly, What Don’t We Know?
I am not bullied, coward or persuaded by the Second Amendment alarmist.Having the American public armed with killing machines, is not smart. I support Senator Bernie Sanders on many issues but his...
View ArticleUn-Qualified?
xYouTube VideoI have listened and watched, for the past few days, to the Sanders and Clinton Democratic camps cover themselves in qualification armor and snipe from bunkers laden with hyperbolic foot...
View ArticleGentle Racism is just as Bad
“I’m trying to tell you, I can’t do a damn thing for you if I don’t get elected”-Ronald Reagan, August 1980. xYouTube Video Yelling at and disparaging minority voters will never work. Former President...
View ArticleThe Gay Scapegoat
I was born and raised in America and for 60 years I had been brainwashed into a false belief. For the vast majority of my life, I’ve been told gay people should make me uncomfortable. The...
View ArticleA Shiny Mansion on a Hill
If the world is about to be destroyed by aliens, and I disarm the death ray, is it a bad thing if I did not leave you with a mansion to live in? Democrats have come to a bad place, we are defining...
View ArticleMy Jackie Robinson and the Fight For Ole' DC
In nineteen forty-seven Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Fourteen years later the pro football team in Washington DC drafted celebrated Syracuse University running...
View ArticleWhat the Faustian is going on here…
Why in the under-world, are self-professed Liberals so anxious to associate the Democratic Party with the devil? Jeff Weaver, the campaign manager for Senator Bernie Sanders, said recently that former...
View ArticlePurr-ple Pain, Purple Pain
At 1pm.est, yesterday afternoon, I heard the news that a body had been discovered at the estate of, writer, singer, guitarist, pianist, drummer… Prince. Nearly a half hour later, the newscaster...
View ArticleBroadway Don!
He is authentic, he speaks for me, he says the things I can’t say - Trump supporters Donald Trump has told us, since he rode down an escalator and stopped at the basement floor of our lives,...
View ArticleWhere Have All the Flowers Gone…
In 1975, I took my first love to the Carter Barron Amphitheatre in Washington DC. I was 18 years old, a senior in high school and had dreams too big to contain. Nestled in the woods of Rock Creek Park...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Nadine
I was born and raised in Washington, DC and the first birthday party I remember, was when I turned eleven years old. It was 1967, I was a shy, thin little boy and scared my friends may not have shown...
View ArticleGee Our Old LaSalle Ran Great…
Approximately twenty-eight percent of the American electorate, identify themselves as conservatives or Republicans. The Republican Party has tried repeatedly to convince us that if a true conservative...
View ArticleHashtag #Stop It
Maybe I sound like an old man screaming get off my lawn but the hashtag craze has gone from effective to hipster pablum. The first signs of any real effect that social media had on the millennial...
View ArticleI've got Plenty of Nothing...
You’ve heard the old riddle, “the more you take away the bigger it gets”- answer, a hole. The Republican Party has fallen into a hole so deep, dug by bigots, homophobes and obstructionist that the...
View ArticleKeep it 100
In popular parlance the vogue phrase, ‘keep it 100’ is equivalent to telling the unvarnished truth.President Obama was the keynote speaker this past weekend, at the graduation ceremonies held at HBCU...
View ArticleMike and the Ethereal
September 30th 1979, my son Michael fell victim to SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).October 5th 1979 he was buried. In the intervening time between his death and interment I experienced a whirlwind...
View ArticleDonald, George and the Hate Machine
When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat."- George CarlinI spoke with a White, forty-something Trump supporter in New York nearly a...
View ArticleI am sorry Anita (The Real Blue Dress of Change)
Despite all the attention paid to the Monica Lewinsky stained blue dress, Professor Anita Hill showed up four years earlier with an unblemished character and a blue dress that made her a significant...
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