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Roberts Court Continues the Citizens United Trend with McCutcheon v. FEC
I've been beat down by my new gig lately but this one brought me out of retirement. Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse after Citizens United -- a case where the Supreme Court turned a...
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HBO Game of Thrones Recap: Two Swords
Well we're back. Everybody ok? Everyone had a good year? Everyone's loved ones safe? That is not counting the Starks. They are most definitely not okay as Season Four's premiere takes special pains to...
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Detroit mob beats driver who hits child
I was going to write about a foreign policy situation that was on my mind but that can wait as some news a bit closer to home is getting national attention. A suburban man named Steven Utash (pictured...
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Would the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Pass Congress Today?
This is the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In case you are wondering what this law means to you today, this is the law that finally made it illegal for any business, movie theater,...
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What's your retirement plan?
After a long hectic day of fighting crime while maintaining my secret identity as a mild mannered accounting IT analyst I was minding my own business when out of the blue the batcave emergency phone...
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Music Reviews: Little Richard, King Floyd
Little RichardLittle Richard (born Richard Penniman) likes to refer to himself as "The Architect" of rock-n-roll. He certainly is one of the founding fathers. He was and is a flamboyant larger than...
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HBO Game of Thrones Recap: The Lion and the Rose
GRRM wrote this week's episode. It primarily takes place in King's Landing and may make some people quite happy. If it wasn't already painfully clear to you from last season, Ramsay Snow is a sadistic,...
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Detroit Pistons GM Joe Dumars Resigns
Joe Dumars, former Detroit Pistons championship guard and Pistons General Manager, stepped down today as General Manager after fourteen years in that role. Unfortunately for Dumars, in the decade since...
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Seans Combs to Deliver Commencement Address at Howard University - Good or Bad?
Before I go all the way off on the students of Howard University who are expressing outrage that Sean Combs (we will refer to him by his government name today) has been selected as the 2014...
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Movie Reviews: Afflicted, Riddick
Afflicteddirected by Derek Lee and Cliff ProwseThis horror movie is like a meeting of the minds between The Blair Witch Project and A Werewolf in London. It combines seemingly low production values...
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HBO Game of Thrones Recap: Breaker of Chains
One of the sad ugly things about life is that some day it will end. Everyone you love is going to leave this world. You yourself will one day be gone. I hope it doesn't happen for decades but of course...
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Double Standard: Cliven Bundy Standoff and Race
We live in a world in which black men are "accidentally" shot multiple times because police thought that a wallet looked like a gun. We live in a world where black teens climbing trees have guns drawn...
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The Realities of Racial Bias & Merit
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a ruling which upheld the state of Michigan's voter-approved ban on affirmative action in higher education. It's important to note that the...
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Book Reviews: The 47th Samurai, The Unscratchables
The 47th Samuraiby Stephen HunterI like Hunter's Bob Lee Swagger novels. This novel came out a few years ago but I just got around to reading it a few months back. I've read books in the series both...
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HBO Game of Thrones Recap: Oathkeeper
Well. That was different. Benioff and Weiss have consistently said that they are adapting the entirety of A Song of Ice and Fire, not just a one to one book to season ratio. They are the creators of a...
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Columbus Short is Out from the Cast of Scandal and I'm Glad!
Columbus Short Will Not Return for Season 4 of "Scandal"Last week The Janitor wrote an excellent piece on "Racial Bias & Merit." He referenced a powerful study in which several law firm partners...
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Donald Sterling Owner of Los Angeles Clippers to be fined $2.5M, Banned for...
Donald Sterling Owner of Los Angeles Clippers to be fined $2.5M, Banned for life by NBA and Will be Forced to Sell the Team Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been banned for life from the...
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Movie Reviews: You're Next, Danger Word
You're Nextdirected by Adam WinguardMuch like Cabin in the Woods, You're Next is a horror movie which shows that you can still have intelligent premises and writing in horror films without sacrificing...
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Game of Thrones and Rape Criticism
There are some people, both media critics and other bloggers who have an axe or two to grind over the Jaime/Cersei rape scene in particular and how A Game of Thrones handles rape or violence against...
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