It’s always hard to lose a hero. Jimmy Carter is one. Continue reading
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Take a moment in the next day to grieve for those who were lost or hurt in the last 4 years. Take a moment to honor all of those (including yourselves) that struggled and resisted. Then take a moment and celebrate that we did this and better things are ahead. Continue reading
Let’s huddle here together. Continue reading
Put your feelings about America’s latest shit show here. Continue reading
After House Republicans withdrew their health care bill from a vote, author Justin Halpern jokingly tweeted that Paul Ryan had blasted Papa Roach’s “Last Resort” in his SUV as he left the White House. Continue reading
Well, we are now in Trump times. Sorry. Continue reading
Actor O’shea Jackson, playing his father, Ice Cube, in the 2015 movie “Straight Outta Compton.”
Ice Cube, in 1989, was a black teenage rap star, sick of doing all of the work and getting none of the money.
2016: Ain’t gotta change a word. Continue reading
Over the past three years I’ve crisscrossed the eastern United States, from Chicago to Atlanta, Baltimore, Manchester, Charlotte, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Columbus, Madison, New York, DC, Peoria, and most recently Detroit. During the day, you can see forests and farms, cities and towns. But at night, you begin to see a different picture. Continue reading
On January 20, 2017, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as President of the United States. Given his campaign platform, there is significant concern that his administration will roll back rights that particularly affect disadvantaged and minority groups.
Somewhere in the mess that became the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump went from scumbag, real estate mogul to a dinner table tall tale. He edged away from being held accountable for his bigoted, sexist, destructive talk in every way a presidential candidate should be. He managed to transcend the responsibility heaped onto every other candidate that ever ran for the office, and is, as he always has been, flying by the seat of his pants, uncontrollably, manically, and with complete abandon of social mores, God-given intellect, and human decency.
In effect, he is an abomination hurtling through space, knocking the tenets of Americanism asunder by plundering anything positive and laying waste to it with every decision he makes — and that was before the release of the infamous Access Hollywood tapes — or the accusations of sexual assault by several women from Trump’s past. Continue reading