It’s All About Success Just when you thought that the current national crisis of police shootings of black men could not possibly get worse, in steps North Carolina Republican Congressman Robert Pettinger. Pettinger, a Trump supporter, was being interviewed by Great Britain’s BBC when he explained protester anger in Charlotte, NC, site of a recent […]

“Think we should make slaves again….” Media reports that, “The (Facebook) account of John Nygaard, of Dell Rapids, South Dakota, made a post stating “Think we should make slaves again….” The account also said, “Vote Trump.  Fuck These people.” Mr. Nygaard was apparently a Dell Rapids Fire Rescue volunteer before his foray into social commentary. The […]

And Lies Again For years Donald Trump has been the leader in questioning President Obama’s citizenship. His reason was far more than a casual interest in Obama genealogy. It was a sly and racist gambit to destroy our president through innuendo. Colin Powell points out that when the President’s birthplace was undisputed, Trump was still […]

Mogul There once was a mogul from Manhattan, Who took an aspirin each day with his statin, Junk food he did like, As he watched his waistline spike, Till one day the scale he did flatten.  

“Deserving Strong Condemnation” Mrs. Clinton, probably in between fits of coughing, recently referred to supporters of Donald Trump as “deplorable” wherein Mr. Trump evinced great alarm at his supporters being so described. She singled some out as being, “…racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic …” Trumpsters then pounced on her remark asserting that she was referring to […]

Weekend at Hillary’s Mrs. Clinton said she did not reveal the Pneumonia diagnosis because she did not think “it was a big deal.” Then, some liberal bloggers came along to say it isn’t a big deal. Imagine yourself sitting on the examining table in your doctor’s office when she or he strides in, test results […]

What Does It Say About Us? The media is awash this weekend with images of a group of grown men lounging and preening at the New York 9/11 Memorial taking “selfies” with a female “sex doll” in tow. Reports suggest that it was Brits on a “stag-do”,  a.k.a. bachelor party outing, as if that explained […]

Fifteen Years On Except for those most personally affected, September 11, 2001, now resides, like the murder of JFK, as a “where I was” memory or as a fact of history known only through learning rather than direct experience. A generation of young people stands on the verge of adulthood who were yet to be […]

Trump as the Anti-Obama It has been said that Donald Trump is the exact opposite of Barack Obama and therefore the perfect antidote for those stricken deathly ill after eight years of a knee-grow president. Trump’s spewing of racist and bigoted commentary and the support he draws puts Obama’s blackness center stage and seals the deal […]

Well Fed, Decent Lodgings First Lady Michelle Obama, in her DNC speech the other night, referenced the use of slaves in the building of the White House. Last night, Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly ended his segment clarifying that there were also “free blacks, whites and immigrants at work on the massive building.” O’Reilly also said […]