Partially driven by my desire to protect the innocent, I’ll describe Iraqi Prime Minister Noriel al-Maliki’s current existential problem with ISIS by telling a semi-fictional story. I knew this Guy who opened a restaurant with the help of some People from Brooklyn. A disagreement resulted in the Guy asking the People from Brooklyn to leave the […]
Read More WANT HELP WITH ISIS, IRAQ? IT WILL COST YOU.Don’t let the mainstream media downplay the 30-year, USD 400 billion natural gas deal signed this week between Russia’s Gazprom and China’s CNPC. This is a big, friggin’ deal, and we may be witnessing the start of a long-term inflexion of how the game of international politics will be played and won. Or […]
Read More DON’T SLEEP ON THIS CHINA-RUSSIA GAS DEALMany of you are STILL in denial and think America’s struggle is based on Blue vs Red, but the latest Brookings Institution report about the decades-long destruction of business creation and survival should make you see a bigger picture. And be very pissed. Look at this chart featured in the Brookings report, Declining Business Dynamism […]
Read More SMALL BUSINESS DEATH MEANS DEATH OF MIDDLE CLASS(Laughing) I’m not exactly sure how Cinco de Mayo meant that Americans are supposed to get smashed drunk on May 5 – although I’m sure the Yankee axiom of “Human beings exist so that we can sell them something” had a hand here – but you should at least know that Americans of African […]
Read More CINCO DE MAYO IS ‘BLACK PEOPLE HUG YOUR MEXICAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS DAY’While you celebrate another victory in the name of post-racial America after the NBA’s lifetime banishment of racist Los Angeles Clippers owner, Donald Sterling, I want to remind you of a 38-year old racial incident that follows a familiar pattern. The late Earl Butz, US Secretary of Agriculture during the Nixon and […]
Read More POST-STERLING AMERICA, OR LONG LIVE CHICKEN WING POWERDonald Sterling’s latest ventures in race and sociology make me not only think the guy would feel right at home in 1930’s America, but I also think he wants to capture some of that ol’ Sambo magic and recreate his own private Cotton Club in 2014. You think I’m being extreme, huh? Like the famous […]
Read More THE COTTON CLUB SYNDROME – DONALD STERLING AND THE LEAGUE OF OWNERSWe all have passion, and a few of you have more than one. It’s okay to admit it. This convo is between you, me and the viewing screen. While some passions are repressed by the cruel hand of others or through our own restrictive choices, some of you do not need to be convinced […]
Read More SIGHT + SOUND: WABERI JORDAN – PUT IT RIGHT THEREMy thoughts about American democracy and Freedom of Speech’s current state after the Supreme Court recently obliterated long-standing campaign donation limits can be summarized with one sentence. The more money you have, the more freedom you get. Look at WaPo‘s article about the McCutcheon case if you want a longer explanation… song currently stuck […]
Read More “ONLY DOLLARS GOT THE WEIGHT”Nina Simone’s The King of Love is Dead – song about the April 4, 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – is one of the most emotionally-stirring tunes I ever heard. Note that Nina didn’t say the King of Racial Hatred is Dead, or the King of Violent Revolution is Dead, […]
Read More MLK – REMEMBERING THE KING OF LOVESo, what did Pro Bowler DeSean Johnson do that resulted in him being cut from the Philadelphia Eagles? It seems that NJ.com said “gang connections,” and Jackson’s Eagles career, after signs of simmering troubles, was subsequently roasted. Did Jackson shoot somebody? Did he conscript youngsters into thug life? Did he sign-up […]
Read More DESEAN JACKSON – FIRE FIRST, FORGET QUESTIONS
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