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Make America Great Again?
WOW! Well Mr. Trump, the list is growing. So far, you have a majority of both Republican and Democratic candidates for POTUS; Vice President Dick Cheney; Speaker Paul Ryan; the Prime Ministers of...
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Scalia and the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations
Dear Justice Scalia: Here’s what I learned as a black student struggling at an elite collegeWritten byAfi-Odelia Scruggs at the Washington PostU.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia waits during...
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Why Some People Don't Deserve A Dog
I ran across this article the other day. My husband and I did the unthinkable: We returned our 5-month-old puppy to her breeder despite the fact that our family loved her and thought she was adorable....
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I have always enjoyed Richard Thompson's music from his initial days as guitarist with folk/rock group Fairpoint Convention to what I think of as his most critical musical period with his then wife...
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Detroit Water Bills Redux
Another day, another bad story out of Detroit concerning payment of bills. We've discussed this before. Not much has changed. There is still a big mess. It's a perfect storm of massive unemployment and...
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Movie Reviews: Just Before I Go, Ant-Man, The Wannabe
Just Before I Godirected by Courteney CoxThis film is superficially interesting on initial view but the deeper you get into it the less it makes sense. Cox relies on some warmed over racist tropes (the...
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Movie Reviews: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Force Awakensdirected by J.J. AbramsMy Dad took my brother and me to see the first Star Wars movie all those years ago. That is a good memory. It was quite the event. Afterwards we had a...
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Book Reviews: Soft Target
Soft Targetby Stephen HunterWhat do you do when your most impressive hero has finally gotten a little bit too old to be a believable butt kicker? Why if you're Stephen Hunter you bring in the next...
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R. Kelly and Scapegoating Black Men
Ok. There are a couple of things which I should point out before this short little post. (1) I am not an R. Kelly fan. I don't like or listen to R. Kelly's music. I know at most just two songs of his....
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No Charges for Officer in Tamir Rice Shooting
When I was about 9 or 10 years old I had this BB gun that I played with about as much as Ralphie from the Christmas Story, which is to say often. I ate, drank and slept with this thing. It was...
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The Case Against Bill Cosby
After decades of allegations, some publicized, most not, Bill Cosby has been arrested and charged with aggravated indecent assault. The 78-year-old comedian stumbled in to court in Pennsylvania...
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Movie Reviews: The Hateful Eight
The Hateful Eightdirected by Quentin TarantinoThis is Tarantino's eighth directed film. It seems as if he's done more than that. This film has almost all of the stylings and quirks which you've come to...
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"Making a Murderer" Provides Insight Into America's Criminal Justice System
Over the holiday break, Netflix released a documentary titled "Making a Murderer" which follows the story of a Wisconsin man by the name of Steven Avery. Avery was wrongfully convicted of sexual...
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Movie Reviews: American Ultra, The Gift
American Ultradirected by Nima NourizadehThis is a fairly predictable action-comedy movie made more so by the fact that the film's main twist is revealed in the first ten minutes. The other twist,...
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Ned Stark Misses the Big Picture: Loras Tyrell
Ned Stark was a good father, brother, husband and son. But he was a maladroit political strategist. Even when he tried to plot his sense of honor and morality made him value other people's interests as...
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Movie Reviews: Sicario, What Love Is, Crime Story
Sicariodirected by Denis VilleneuveDenis Villeneuve also directed Prisoners. And Sicario has more than a few of the same questions about moral lines being crossed or even drawn that were posed in that...
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#OscarsSoWhite: Stacy Dash & Donald Trump Get In on the Act
It's been one week since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the nominees for the 88th annual Academy Awards. It's been one week since it was revealed no people of color,...
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Book Reviews: The Dragon Factory
The Dragon Factoryby Jonathan MaberryI hadn't read anything by Maberry since his vampire trilogy a while back. I liked it even though I felt it was a bit stretched out. So when I was checking my home...
View ArticleMusic Reviews: Wet Willie, Lee Michaels
Keep on Smiling, Do you Know what I meanI am a child of the seventies (and eighties too I guess). So I appreciate a lot of the music that was created back then. Like many people I am partial to the...
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Flint Water Crisis: For a Few Dollars More
We are amazed but not amused By all the things you say that you'll doThough much concerned but not involved With decisions that are made by youBut we are sick and tired of hearing your song Telling how...
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