Mar 25, 2021Paper Complains that Governor Helped His Family Get COVID tests early: Really, NYT???Paper Complains that Governor Helped His Family Get COVID tests early: Really, NYT??? What’s Next? Cuomo Kidnapped the Lindbergh Baby? Word to a news organization that is getting dangerously close to tabloid fodder. Dear NYT, When CNN host, Chris Cuomo contracted coronavirus at the very beginning of the pandemic, there’s…Nyt2 min read
Mar 24, 2021Brief Note on Trump and the MobBrief Note on Trump and the Mob Evidence in Capitol Attack Most Likely Supports Sedition Charges, Prosecutor Says "I personally believe the evidence is trending toward that, and probably meets those elements," said Michael Sherwin,…www.nytimes.com You know, sometimes a thing looks just like it is. Imagine an ordinary guy doing the things Trump did — -leading up to, during, and after the insurrection. No need to elaborate. We all saw it with our own eyes. What do you…Insurrection1 min read
Jan 30, 2021The Rage and the Sorrow are Bottomless: Thoughts on the Words of Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr.The great abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed that slavery degraded the slaveholder as much as it degraded the slave. Of his kind-hearted mistress who had never before owned a slave, he wrote: “My mistress was, as I have said, a kind and tender-hearted woman; and in the simplicity of her soul…Democracy5 min read
Jan 30, 2021Biden Won’t Save America.The Truth Will. In his inaugural address, President Joe Biden suggested that “through Civil War, the great depression, world war, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifices, and setbacks, our better angels have prevailed.” …Biden4 min read
Jan 27, 2020February Is Black History Month Crossword Puzzle<iframe height=”700" width=”100%” allowfullscreen=”true” style=”border:none;width: 100% !important;position: static;display: block…1 min read
Jun 21, 2019Joe Biden, James Eastland, Just Getting Along, and Cutting Your Own ThroatThe Backstory “Well guess what? At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn’t agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished…But today, you look at the other side and you’re the enemy. Not the opposition, the enemy. …Politics7 min read
May 9, 2019Long Live Identity Politics: A Word to the ComplainersHere we go again. Dems, identity politics will not defeat Donald Trump Since former Vice President Joe Biden joined the race, some Democrats have complained that despite the most diverse…www.nydailynews.com Like 2016, here come the think pieces on the evils of identity politics aka talking about difference (race, gender, sexuality) and complaints about politicians crafting policies based on identity rather than adopting broad- based economic strategies.Black Lives Matter4 min read
May 9, 2019What Bernie and Friends (and the Media) Don’t Get About Black VotersHere come the media pieces purporting to figure out what’s going on with Biden and Black voters. Here’s one and here’s one. Almost all hand wring over why, given Biden’s history of missteps (Anita Hill, busing desegregation, the war on drugs, me too, etc.), …Politics6 min read
Feb 8, 2019When Britain Had a TrumpOn October 11, 2016, Donald Trump wrote on Twitter that “It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to.” Trump sees himself as being in bondage — -shackled by the GOP and a victim of…Trump6 min read
Oct 7, 2018Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court, America, and the March of TimeThe late historian Howard Zinn spent a lifetime writing from the margins — -illuminating the omissions, the mythologies, the hypocrisies, the dark America that remains unmentionable. In 2005, after Chief Justice John G. …Racism8 min read