I’ll get around to posting more detailed thoughts about the economy by next week at latest, but those of you who’ve read my posts like this or this already know that I think the global economic recovery of 2009 is a joke. Yes, “global” includes the United States. In “The Coming Default Wave Is […]
Read More BIG WAVE OF BOND DEFAULTS COMINGNone of my initial thoughts about the Panama Papers will involve me covering my mouth in shock. Don”t we know by now that ultra-rich folks, both of the legal and illegal varieties, stash loot overseas? Shoot, the rich admitted about a year ago to owning private airstrips and remote hideouts — in case the global […]
Read More PANAMA PAPERS — A FAMILIAR SONG AT THE MOMENTMAXWELL MAXWELL’S URBAN HANG SUITE 1996 20 years ago yesterday, after a bout of hesitation by Columbia Records and Modern Soul recording artist Maxwell, Urban Hang Suite was released to a consumer market where — for right or wrong reasons — American music executives and many performing artists cowered into creative capitulation by the powerful […]
Read More AN ALBUM (OR TWO) IN MY HEAD 0065There’s been play talk about a grand compromise which could save the Republican Party from civil war or even implosion this summer, and I want your thoughts about it. The hypothetical deal is that the GOP allows Trump to become the Presidential nominee without any resistance from party bigwigs. In return, Trump chooses John Kasich […]
Read More SUNDAY SMACK: TRUMP, CRUZ & KASICH DEAL?What does a Romanian hacker, whose crimes recently earned him extradition to the United States, have to do with the Hillary Clinton jail post I promised? Perhaps nothing — or plenty. The hacker in question is Marcel Lehel Lazăr, better known as Guccifer, and he’s responsible for the original leak of Clinton emails that started […]
Read More WHO THE HELL IS ‘GUCCIFER,’ AND HOW CAN HE PUT HILLARY CLINTON IN JAIL?There’s trouble in Hollywood Washington this year. Buying into Frank Zappa’s axiom that “Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex” also means reconciling the role elections — and theoretically, independent-minded voters — play in this metaphorical value chain. Therefore, extending Zappa’s logic would likely lead you to conclude that America’s two major […]
Read More WRITER’S BLOCK: HOW WILL THE 2016 ELECTIONS BE SCRIPTED?GEORGE BENSON THE NEW BOSS GUITAR OF GEORGE BENSON WITH THE BROTHER JACK MCDUFF QUARTET 1964 Understanding why guitarist George Benson is often called Bad Benson requires a simple exercise going play any song with him on it. Bad Benson — who also released a studio album with that moniker in 1974 — made his […]
Read More AN ALBUM (OR TWO) IN MY HEAD 0064This week’s Sunday Smack inspiration comes from the North Carolina General Assembly’s decision to overrule a Charlotte ordinance which banned discrimination against LGBT people. The legislature also banned North Carolina cities from passing LGBT non-discrimination laws, as well as regulating local minimum wages. However, the mounting pressure being placed on North Carolina by large organizations […]
Read More SUNDAY SMACK: SHOULD PRO-LGBT RIGHTS BOYCOTT IN NORTH CAROLINA ALSO APPLY TO BLACKS?Oooh, baby — this sounds desperate. Wall Street Journal’s Gerald Seib just made an indirect appeal to the Party of No Brains supporters’ sense of ideology as a way to stop Donald Trump’s raging campaign for the party’s nomination. In his Donald Trump Nomination Would Change GOP Philosophy, Not Just Leadership piece, Seib writes about […]
Read More THE MYTH OF TRUMP CHANGING THE GOPThis week’s Sunday Smack draws from some personal family experience — or more specifically, that of my Grandmother on Dad’s side of the family. Everyone in the community called her “Mother.” Before Mother owned a candy store, she cleaned homes for a living. Mother had a client, a wealthy White woman, who considered Mother a […]
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