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Movie Reviews: Gringo, Fourteen Hours
Gringodirected by Nash EdgertonUneven film with plenty of stereotypes. It has its moments but the cast was better than the writing.I expected a little more from this film based on the cast. Most of the...
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The Border Separation Debacle Unpacked
I've been silent for a long time because, quite frankly, there's been entirely too much nonsense to keep up with from this administration on a daily basis. Every single day a new unforced error here,...
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Einstein, Politics, and Art
There have been many situations in which artists of varying talent levels have been accused of committing or proven to have committed nasty acts, often criminal, often against women. Others have been...
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Kelly Cochran: Serial Killer
Have you ever eaten something you shouldn't have and suffered for it later? Well you probably have. Have you ever been around someone and had an epiphany that for whatever reason it wasn't good or even...
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Movie Reviews: Gangster No. 1
Gangster No. 1directed by Paul McGuiganFor what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?On one level this older film is the answer to the question of what would...
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Black Doctor Prevented From Entering Her Own Neighborhood
I've written before about how one of the most persistent elements of American anti-Black racism is the idea that some non-Blacks have that a given Black person doesn't belong in a certain space and can...
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Supreme Court Upholds Trump's Travel Ban
As I long suspected and as this blog's legal expert predicted :" However, as it stands, the courts have basically taken the position that Presidents can freely use Section 212(f) as they see fit, so it...
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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Retiring
Anthony Kennedy, who often served as a swing vote on what otherwise would have been a solidly right-wing Supreme Court, is retiring. President Trump will get to make a second nomination to the Supreme...
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Book Reviews: Black Detroit
Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determinationby Herb BoydHerb Boyd is a journalist and historian. This book is a sober overview of African-American history in Detroit from its founding to...
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Woman Bites Off Ear At Chinese Restaurant
Over the years I've had waiters, clerks, or fast food workers occasionally get my food orders wrong. Usually it's a no harm-no foul sort of deal. Sometimes though, you run into unreasonable aggressive...
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In the below video former political prisoners read unpublished letters from South African freedom fighter and later President, Nelson Mandela. It's important to remember that no matter what life throws...
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Music Reviews: I Gotcha and Baby It's Cold Outside
I really like most of Joe Tex's work. I also like the Ray Charles-Betty Carter version of the standard "Baby It's Cold Outside". Recently on Facebook a relative posted the Joe Tex song "I Gotcha!"...
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Carjacker Learns That You Don't Mess With Texas
Unfortunately the world is full of people, who as the character Blade opined, are always trying to iceskate uphill. There is not really a way to reason with such people. They don't understand reason...
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Modern Day Loansharking and Obama Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
Mister Banker Mister please, how much does money meanWon't you reconsider Mister Won't you do this thing for meMr. Banker -Lynyrd SkynyrdI've written before that if you were a criminally minded sort in...
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Book Reviews: Blood Song
Blood Songby Anthony RyanThis older novel was the author's debut into a pretty crowded field and the first in a trilogy. I think it's unfortunate that so many publishers and authors shoehorn stories...
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Lions Kill Poachers
Poachers are horrible human beings who kill rare animals, often driving them to extinction in order to sate the Western appetite for trophies, or the Chinese and African appetite for medicines or foods...
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Married Woman and Alleged Lover Die in Carbon Monoxide Accident
I imagine a spouse would have a number of emotions upon learning that their better half was cheating on them but had also just passed away. I mean how do you process that sort of information? A woman...
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Black Men Don't Belong Here!!!
I don't know if these sorts of incidents are actually happening more frequently or if we are just hearing about them more often but they give the lie to the bromides that (1) people don't notice race...
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What is Obama's Legacy?
In the days of Pharaohs, Kings, Sultans, and Emperors, occasionally a new ruler would take the throne who had a bug up his or her butt about some previous ruler. Maybe the new tyrant had some...
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Movie Reviews: High Noon
High Noondirected by Fred ZinnemanIt's ironic that this film's title for a time became short hand for the sort of high handed right wing shoot first ask questions later macho cowboy vigilantism which...
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