MALCOLM X NOVEL ANNOUNCED IN 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS LONG LIST

I always look forward to reading the lists of finalists for the National Book Awards, but my eyebrows arched a bit higher this morning when I saw the subject areas covered by the authors in the Awards’ long list for Young People’s Literature: a Malcolm X novel, co-written by one of the daughters of the […]

THE US HELPED TO CREATE THE ‘REFUGEE’

Since Americans want to debate whether or not the country should accept refugees from the current Middle East wars, let’s bring up a topic which is astonishingly missing from these discussions … … Like how America helped to create this refugee crisis! In America’s attempt to reshape the Middle East through proxy wars or outright […]

LOOK WHO’S TALKING – GIULIANI SCHOOLS DE BLASIO ON HOMELESS ISSUE

The good news about former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani crawling out of his makeshift 9/11 shrine to write a New York Post article about current Mayor Bill de Blasio’s handling of the city’s homelessness problem is that Giuliani never mentioned 9/11. I’m sure of that. I read the article twice. Plus, I skimmed […]

A WAY TO EXPLAIN WHY SLAVE TETRIS IS A BAD IDEA

You would think that I wouldn’t have to burn electrons explaining why Serious Games Interactive CEO Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen’s Slave Tetris mini-game is dumb, if not outright disrespectful to humanity, but he apparently doesn’t get it — even after he pulled the mini-game from his larger Playing History 2: Slave Trade game. The intent of this […]

THE BASIC PROBLEM WITH HILLARY CLINTON’S EMAIL SCANDAL NO ONE’S TALKING ABOUT

While former Hillary Clinton State Department aide Mark McDougal intends to hide behind his Fifth Amendment rights in response to any congressional inquiry about Clinton’s private email server use for conducting government business, there are two fundamental issues about Clinton’s behavior most people are missing. Forget for a moment that the public is completely ignoring […]

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON MOVIE THOUGHTS, PART TWO

Part Two: This Movie and Planet Earth Now that I’ve discussed the social backdrop for the Straight Outta Compton movie in my previous post, I want to start this post by giving props to film director F. Gary Gray because Compton was shot and edited well. But of course I have some feedback about the storyline. […]

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON MOVIE THOUGHTS, PART ONE

Part One: Plantation Cultivation and the American Dream Straight out of the 1980s–90s plantation known as Compton, California, and powered in part by President Ronald Reagan’s Narcotics Entrepreneurship and Small Arms Specialist Training Program, better known to the rest you as the Iran-Contra scandal, five young men pushed their way to entertainment stardom and out […]

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 […]