WHAT IN THE HELL DOES THE SAN BERNADINO SHOOTING HAS TO DO WITH FREEDOM?

It’s worse than beverage companies telling you how much they care for your health but then obscure the danger of super sized sodas — while telling you that drinking proximate death in a 36-ounce cup is a benefit of your “freedom” is an American. Worse than the time Big Tobacco denied that cigarette smoking can kill you. Yes, […]

HOW AND WHY AMERICA SUPPORTS TERRORISTS LIKE ROBERT LEWIS DEAR

Let’s assume, if only for a moment, America is correct in its desire to avoid calling Robert Lewis Dear’s Denver Planned Parenthood shooting rampage last Friday an act of fundamentalist right-wing Christian terrorism. Even though I’m not aware of any atheist Pan-African left-wing separatists populating the threat matrix of people who want to destroy Colorado […]

LAQUAN MCDONALD’S DEATH SAYS CHICAGO IS RUN BY MANY ‘BAD APPLES’

Two themes have converged to make Laquan McDonald’s apparent murder by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke a cloudy discussion — Laquan’s Black skin color and the public discussion points that relegated Van Dyke’s behavior to the act of one “bad apple” out of a crop of good cops. I’m probably one of the last […]

ALL LIVES MATTER — EXCEPT FOR N****** AND MONKEYS

African descendant Mercutio Southall Jr. proved that he owns a set of balls the size of Birmingham, Alabama’s Wells Fargo Tower when he rolled up to a Donald Trump for President rally in the same city a couple of days ago and chanted “Black Lives Matter.” Southall demonstrated something else more important: “All Lives Matter” […]

TERRORISTS, UTAH SCHOOL KIDS AND THE PROPAGANDA LESSON

The junior high school I attended covered propaganda in its history curricula, and my teachers never once asked me to draw German Nazi Party posters. (Laughing) But thanks to a first year Salem, Utah middle school teacher, about 60 students not only learned how to draw Islamic State (ISIL or ISIS) recruitment posters, but the […]

DON’T CALL THEM MIGRANTS

Some of you are aware of my editorial policy of not burning electrons and time debating over trivial things like the isms and schisms of labels — unless even the most subtle of nominal permutations can mean the difference between framing an important truth and maintaining a social or political falsehood. But calling the ramped-up […]

RUPERT MURDOCH DEFINES A REAL BLACK US PRESIDENT

Presented with a heavy sigh … Source: Twitter (1 & 2). song currently stuck in my head: “untitled” – contour & infinitefreefall

WHAT’S MISSING FROM US GUN CONTROL DEBATE

In 1939, shocked movie viewers abruptly walked out of theaters after hearing Clarke Gable’s character say “I don’t give a damn” in Gone With the Wind. When The Exorcist was released, theater operators handed out sickness bags because a number of viewers found the green vomit scenes disturbing. That vaginal mutilation scene with the crucifix […]

SCHOOL SEGREGATION — NYC STYLE

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was not fooled — not even for a minute. And if some of you didn’t shut down your MLK studies immediately after reading his “I Have a Dream” speech, you wouldn’t be so surprised that members of the White/Liberal/Hipster/Wall Street/Creative/Techie class in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn, New York have […]

WHAT IT MEANS WHEN GM EXECUTIVES PAY TO GET AWAY WITH KILLING PEOPLE

Six hundred dollars. That’s the figure I came up with when I tried to distill the meaning of General Motors’ nine hundred million dollar settlement with the US government to avoid being charged with knowingly selling cars with defective ignition switches — vehicles which I can arguably call pending death sentences — to you non-oligarchs. […]