MICHAEL ROBINSON’S DEATH PENALTY WITHOUT A TRIAL

Guess what happens when you are arrested in Pemiscot County, Missouri, and you’re a diabetic in need of two insulin shots per day to stay alive? The answer simple, in the case of Michael Robinson—you die in jail. Allow me to throw in some disclosure before I move on. I’ve had a social media connection […]

PUBLIC WON’T STOP HAVING SEX WITH NICKI MINAJ WAX FIGURE

While members of the general public continue to pretend having sex with entertainer Nicki Minaj’s wax statue at Madame Tussauds Museum—thus validating the warnings of Azealia Banks—the museum announced that it will provide extra security for its apparent Ode to Venus Hottentot. https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS/status/631349263134384128 https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS/status/631352334296035328 Let’s pull together three data points to understand if Team Madame […]

GOODBYE, SASHA PETRASKE

You shouldn’t be shocked to see me writing a blog post about the death of New York City bar owner and cocktail genius Sasha Petraske since the topic is consistent with my editorial policy—to recognize forces and their agents which move against the banality of mainstream thought. Besides I’m a fan of flavor (don’t be […]

YOU CAN LEARN PLENTY FROM THIS JULIAN BOND QUOTE

The earthly passing of civil rights pioneer, political leader, researcher and educator Julian Bond will certainly spark recitations of a half-century old era—marches, institutional agitation and societal change from a White supremacist-dominated landscape. But Bond’s lifetime dedication to equal rights, inclusive of his latter-day work, should illuminate two important realities we can learn from. First, […]

TERROR, IN THE NAME OF LIBERTY

Remember when I began to drop strong hints almost a year ago about Islamic State’s curiously sudden rise and its violent annexation of land in Iraq and Syria? I felt my hunch back then about ISIL being disposable jihadists was justified: … [I]ntelligence may not have every square inch of the Middle East and Central […]

BACK TO WHY TRUMP IS WINNING

(Laughing) After Thursday night’s Party of No Brains Presidential debate, are you ready to call Donald Trump’s campaign a damn thing yet? I made this pre-debate assessment about Trump’s chances for staying in the race: …if Americans saw a President in a man known more for his acting ability than his public policy chops in […]

HIROSHIMA WMD ATTACK, 70 YEARS LATER

As we remember the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, consider an idea which history books will never tell you: the US did not have have to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II. This makes the decision to use A-bombs to kill 200,000 people and permanently damage thousands of […]

DONALD TRUMP—AMERICAN ‘HERO’ FOR THE TIMES

I find the mainstream media and politicians’ response to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the recent widening of his lead (pdf) above his clown car of fellow Republican opponents odd. Well, sort of. It’s not surprising that Trump’s campaign was initially met with dismissal, before it was treated with forecasts of his ephemeral potency — […]

LOOK AT THIS CECIL THE LION STORY AGAIN

Some followers of the Black Lives Matter movement are livid over the general public’s apparent preference in discussing a Zimbabwe lion’s recent death at the hands of an American big game hunter, as opposed to discussing the problem of race in America. My response to the Black Lives Matter movement: don’t you see the 2,000-pound […]