WHO DIGS POOR FOLKS ANYWAY?

This quote by Democratic strategist Howard Wolfson during an interview with The Atlantic confirms for me why electing a Liberal like Bill De Blasio to be Mayor of New York City will not mean the magical disappearance of income inequality, and also serves as a reminder of why I don’t have a party […]

MY 29 PROBLEMS WITH OBAMA’S SYRIA SPEECH

You’ve heard President Obama present his case for military action against Syria by now. I was silent because – and this is probably a character flaw I need to address – I thought everyone can read between the lines and know that the speech was hogwash. I could be wrong in my assumption, […]

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013 – WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?

Tomorrow’s 12th anniversary of the September 11 attacks reminds me of two events during the past year that involve America at peace and at war. On the peace front, the United States have been in negotiations with the Taliban. Yup, the same Taliban who macked Afghanistan; played conflicted host to Al-Qaeda and 9/11 mastermind, Osama […]

‘LIMITED’ SYRIA STRIKE – IT DEPENDS

I call President Obama’s weekly address today the REPURPOSED MUSHROOM CLOUD SUPPOSITION FOR ACTIVE US MILITARY DETERRENCE. Scary how I’m able to write that like someone who’s fluent in government-talk. Anyway, we’ve heard something like this speech before, folks. A “limited strike” on Syria does not mean the military operation will […]

WHO ELSE WILL BAN JAPAN’S NUCLEAR FISH?

As radiation levels and leaks in Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have now reached levels that can “kill an unprotected human within hours,” The Guardian reports today that the South Korean government has banned seafood imports from Japan’s Fukushima region and adjacent areas because Japanese power company Tepco released […]

OBAMA HAS LOVE FOR BLACK CAUCUS – AT THE MOMENT

The US Congress appears close to crushing President Obama’s dreams for a punitive Syria military adventure, thus ostensibly rendering the President’s credibility to a state of suspended animation at best. Reading the bones on the ground, what’s Team Obama’s next brilliant idea to get as many “Yes, you may bomb Syria” […]

SAINE AND MARBLE’S FRIED CHICKEN THEORY OF POVERTY

Any politician who brings a box of Popeye’s chicken and a smirk to a State Senate hearing about reducing poverty as a “silent protest” in support of a colleague who correlates Black folks’ supposed fried chicken fetish with being broke is not even remotely serious about discussing anything. We have respective […]

WHAT DO THE RUSSIANS THINK ABOUT SYRIA NOW?

Russian President Vladimir Putin said two interesting things during an interview with the Associated Press and a Russian television station about his support for embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The first item, which most of us have heard before, is that Putin finds the idea of Assad using chemical weapons to be “absurd” since Assad’s […]

JAZE BAQTI – FORWARD

“Forward” by French producer Jaze Baqti. I dig how he freaked that Rotary Connection sample…

POOF! SPOOK BEGONE!

The idiot in this photo wrote: “This is my ‘nigga facial scrub’. It’s coffee with lemon juice and honey, this treatment will leave niggas 100 percent jelly of yo silky skin smoothness. #FaceScrub #Rasta #Plugs #LonelyWhiteGirlMoments” Some of you will have a predictable response to this. I call it the ‘You Should or Shouldn’t’ Solution […]