Hillary Clinton: How Can We Miss You When You Won't Go Away?
Anger is a dangerous emotion. It can be useful when you channel it towards something positive. Holding on to it can be as dangerous to yourself as the object of your ire. Two time failed presidential...
View ArticleMovie Reviews: Logan
Logandirected by James MangoldMasterful end to a series and reworked classic for modern eyesWell. This is a different kind of Marvel Superhero film. The first thing you need to know about Logan is that...
View ArticleJudge Vonda Evans Lays Down The Law
One of my relatives sent me this video. One of his pet peeves is judges who lecture or insult people, usually defendants. I do have friends and relatives who are attorneys. Some of them spend or have...
View ArticleCNN Fires Reza Aslan for Insulting President Trump
Once again, although we theoretically have free speech in this country it is important to remember that the concept really only limits the government and what it can do to you. Generally speaking the...
View ArticleMovie Reviews: Office Christmas Party
Office Christmas Partydirected by Will Speck and Josh GordonGood cast but mixed results in a comedy that felt rushedThis was a remarkably silly film that wasted a good cast and familiar story on over...
View ArticleBook Reviews: The Black Russian
The Black Russianby Vladimir AlexandrovToday Russia has a reputation, fair or not, as a xenophobic haven for Neo-Nazis and white supremacists and thus a hostile place for anyone of apparent African...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Supporter Shoots Republican Representatives and Police
There is much that will come out on this story in the next few hours, let alone the next few days. Some details may change. Right now all we know is that a progressive Bernie Sanders supporter, James...
View ArticleMusic Reviews: Sarah Shook
Sarah Shook and the DisarmersI'm not a huge fan of most country music. Usually the rhythms and tones aren't really my thing. But that said, country music is one of the basic building blocks of American...
View ArticleMichigan AG Charges Officials with Manslaughter over Flint Crisis
You may recall that the residents of Flint, Michigan suffered greatly because of the decision by the Republican installed Emergency Manager and crew to switch from Detroit supplied water to local water...
View ArticleJason Whitlock Reveals His Own Ignorance By Attacking LeBron James
You may have missed it but a few weeks back someone wrote racial slurs on Cleveland Cavaliers small forward LeBron James' offseason Brentwood home. As far as I know the perpetrator hasn't been...
View ArticleChaldeans Blame Trump For Deportations
I don't have a tremendous amount of sympathy for resident adult non-citizens who break the law in any serious way and then receive a deportation order. I have even less pity for a group of people who...
View ArticleDems Stay Losing
So by now you've probably heard that the Democrats lost (again) in last night's special Congressional race between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Repulican Karen Handel. Yes, the race was in Georgia, and...
View ArticleHBO Game of Thrones Season Seven Trailer (4)
My, my, my. What have we here. Yes, it's another HBO Game of Thrones Season Seven trailer. It looks like Daenerys has made it back to Westeros, but she might not be getting the welcome she assumed. And...
View ArticleBook Reviews: Sacculina, The Age Of Zeus
Sacculinaby Phillip FracassiThe various life cycles of Earth's fauna are amazing, wonderful, disgusting and full of horror. It all depends on your point of view. Certainly if cattle, hogs and chickens...
View ArticleCongressional Black Caucus and President Trump
Politics is full of emotion. That's understandable. It's always been the case. But politics is also about reaching your goals and advancing your interest. Sometimes emotion can get in the way of doing...
View ArticleJohn McEnroe and Serena Williams
Today, for whatever strange reason, many people consider it a hateful statement when someone says that A is not B. The retired professional tennis player John McEnroe provided a recent example of this...
View ArticleTrump and Mika Brzezinski
If I were a foreign agent or diplomat observing the President of the United States I would certainly be taking copious notes on how easily the President can be baited into saying or doing something...
View ArticleThe Highwayman
The Highwaymanby Alfred Noyes"The Highwayman" is a romantic poem created by the English writer, poet and playwright Alfred Noyes. I first encountered it as a young child in the Childcraft set gifted to...
View ArticleDon't Mess With North Carolina Women
I haven't been to Asheville, North Carolina, or spoken to maternal relatives in a while. I wonder what they would think of this story. I will check over the weekend. I think that although the woman's...
View ArticleMichigan Mother Brooke Lajiness Pleads Guilty to Sex Offenses
Is it just me or does it seem as if there are more and more women getting busted for molesting or raping young boys? Perhaps I had a slightly sheltered childhood all those years ago when dinosaurs...
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