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Eeny Meeny Mini Moe!
Quick! What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the title of this post?I think of a kid's chant used to randomly pick someone for a team or decide who must perform a certain task....
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Jon Stewart made a surprise visit to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert#Facts
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Street Harassment in Detroit and Confederate Thuggery in Georgia
There have been many words written about street harassment, which is usually defined as a man looking at a woman in a way she doesn't like or saying something to her that she doesn't appreciate. For...
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Border Searches, Privacy and Profiling
I've written before on seeming or actual violations of civil liberties under the Obama Administration. For the most part it's fair to say that progressives didn't care too much about such violations....
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Jeff Sessions: Oh You Mean THOSE Russians
There are a number of different ways to not tell the truth. You may say something that's untrue because you don't know the truth. You may honestly not understand the question because it's vague or...
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Music Reviews: What A Little Moonlight Can Do, Kitchen Man
What a Little Moonlight Can Do (as sung by Billie Holiday) and Kitchen Man (as sung by Bessie Smith) are two classic blues/jazz songs. Both songs express the joy of love but do so in lyrically...
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Movie Reviews: Get Out
Get Outdirected by Jordan PeeleGet Out is a horror movie that has the Black American experience of race and racism at its core. You would think all else equal that more horror films would explore all...
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Historical Narratives, Namibia and Self-Respect
Can you imagine a statute honoring SS boss Heinrich Himmler being erected in Tel Aviv, Israel? No?Do you think that current day residents of Nanjing, China would support a monument to the bravery of...
View ArticleHBO Game of Thrones Season Seven Trailer
Supposedly there are only two seasons (and thirteen episodes) left in HBO's Game of Thrones series. This first trailer doesn't show anything but it definitely leaves the impression that the story is...
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Roosevelt Franklin and Baby Breeze
Sesame Street used to come under pressure to have muppets that were easily able to be identified as African-American so that African-American kids could feel that they were part of the Sesame Street...
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Book Reviews: I Am Providence
I Am Providenceby Nick MamatasThe title of this book will be instantly familiar to any Lovecraft fan. It's what is engraved upon Lovecraft's tombstone. It's also an atypically boastful quote from the...
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Movie Reviews: Black Book, Holy Rollers
Black Bookdirected by Paul VerhoevenThere are a number of thoughts which I had after re-watching this 2007 Dutch drama film set in the waning days of World War 2. The first is that the lead actress...
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Rap Music and Race
If you don't like rap music or more precisely certain types of rap music does that mean that you don't like Black people. Well it might. But as a pure question of logic of course disliking rap music...
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Maddow and Trump Tax Returns
And then suddenly, nothing happened.I find Rachel Maddow's voice to be about as engaging as a dentist's drill so I didn't watch her MSNBC show last night which she breathlessly and shamelessly hyped as...
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Trump's Muslim Ban Round 2 - Why It's Not Over
This week a federal court in Hawaii granted yet another temporary restraining order ("TRO") against the Trump Administration's attempt to ban immigration from certain Muslim-majority countries (on...
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Book Reviews: Quarry's Vote
Quarry's Voteby Max Allan CollinsWith the Quarry series you pretty much know what you're going to get. This installment was no exception. Quarry is a ruthless Vietnam War veteran hit man with, if not...
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Come Have a Ball!
Because sometimes you feel like a nut. And sometimes you don't. We talked before of how some people in other cultures consume insects. Although in this culture that practice is not widespread some...
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Book Reviews: Rogue Lawyer
Rogue Lawyer by John GrishamRemember the movieThe Lincoln Lawyer based upon the book of the same name by author Michael Connelly? Well author John Grisham certainly does. Grisham's novel Rogue Lawyer...
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Cuba Gooding and Sarah Paulson: Inappropriate?
One of my favorite comedians was the English humorist and variety show host Benny Hill. A regular show gag was the extent to which men would go to get a gander at women. It didn't much matter whether...
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ObamaCare Lives Another Day
In case you somehow hadn't heard the Republican members of the House of Representatives could not come together to support the American Health Care Act (AHCA). The more right wing members of Congress...
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