Bernie We Hardly Knew Ya’
Where are your eyes that looked so mild, when my poor heart you first beguiled? –Johnny I hardly knew ya, Dropkick Murphys. Following his loss in Kentucky and win in Oregon last night, Senator Bernie...
View ArticlePurity or Bust
I listened to a radio caller on the Stephanie Miller radio show this morning say to the host, “I’d rather spend the next four years protesting, rather than vote for Hillary Clinton.” Ms. Miller in...
View ArticleHealth Care vs. Health Insurance
It is often said that the reason for the high level of health care in America is because we have a free market and competition increases competence.xYouTube VideoThis may be a pie in the sky approach...
View ArticleWhy is Youth Wasted on the Young?
I am an African American man well over fifty, I had a conversation with a tutoring student that made me weep. I’ll call her Imelda, because I’ve never seen her in the same pair of shoes twice.Imelda is...
View ArticleMillionaires, Billionaires and Crazy Debates
Why would Bernie Sanders entertain lowering the IQ of the Democratic Party by legitimizing the musings of Donald Trump in a debate?I can only imagine the debate:Mr. Trump: “Bernie, why would you call...
View ArticleIt Would Be Funny if it Were not so Serious,
Pseudo, pundit, politician and political hack, Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin and Alex Jones; why are these people allowed to pretend they are saying anything worthwhile? Before you cry foul, censorship or...
View ArticleStepping on the Message
Thursday afternoon former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, delivered a foreign policy speech that excoriated and in all likelihood had to be explained to Donald Trump because coherency is not his...
View ArticleThe Champ was Here
Legend has it that Muhammad Ali strode into a Kinshasa, Zaire gym days prior to his encounter with George Foreman, to regain the heavyweight title of the world, banged an animal skinned covered drum...
View ArticleThe Olympic Dream of Donald Trump
Performing a Triple Pretzel with a Two and a Half Twist, Donald Trump has achieved the impossible, tying the Republican Party into an inextricable knot. Mr. Trump has been in a snit over the rulings of...
View ArticleMorality... the Intellectual Excuse
Donald Trump, gritting his teeth like the dogs once set upon protesters in the Bull Connor south of the 1960’s, denied his present and past statements as being racist yesterday. Flanked by his wife,...
View ArticleStop Hitting Yourself
To the Senator Bernie Sanders supporters, stop congratulating me as if I am your opponent. I have written countless blogpost and articles for this and other publications expressing my enthusiastic...
View ArticleRainbows Come After Every Storm
For those of you who still use phrases like, “they just want to be different,”or“why do you have to be that way,” the deaths of fifty men and women at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida should...
View ArticleHey Cam, Have You Got a Minute to Talk to Bernie…?
Just this past February the Denver Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers in Superbowl 50, 24-10 before a crowd of 71,088. In the aftermath of the loss, Panther’s Quarterback Cam Newton pouted and...
View ArticleThe World is Waiting
I’ve written in the past about the 1979 death of my son Michael. The events in Orlando, Florida this past Sunday reminded me of the feeling of absolute helplessness you get, when a call saying your...
View ArticleHillary Clinton is Organized…
Hillary Clinton decided early that the best way to win the Democratic primary was to run as a Democrat. I know, I know, your third grade teacher said never define a word with the same word.Senator...
View ArticleWhy I hate Guns
In 1968, as a twelve-year-old boy, ripping and running [that’s how my grandmother characterized it] the streets of Washington DC., I had great friends, great times and great fear. In the Spring of 1968...
View ArticleDon't just do Something, Stand there...
I am finding it increasingly more difficult to power up my TV and tune into so-called information and news channels because the absurd is becoming the norm. The Europeans Union is on the verge of a...
View ArticleShopping for a Shroud
For the first few days following the death of my son, I was angry at the benevolent God, that I had been taught existed. Why didn’t he show mercy and kindness? My wife had taken to her bed and my two...
View ArticleI Just Can’t See the Evil
From rapper/artist Michael Render (Killer Mike) to actress Susan Sarandon and Senator Sanders campaign head, Jeff Weaver, I am having a hard time dealing with the visceral hate for Hillary Clinton.I am...
View ArticleHigh-Tech, Loretta Lynch-ing
If ever there were time for a prominent female Black lawyer to don a powder blue, linen dress, this may be Attorney General of the United States, Loretta Lynch’s moment. It has been twenty-five years...
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