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In Texas They Treat Haitian Migrants Like Cattle. But Don’t Forget, They Also Suppress Voting Rights (for Blacks) and Ban Abortions
Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 7:09 AM
Emancipation Monument: Lee May Have Walked His Horse Over Me, but ‘Still I Rise’
Friday, September 24, 2021 at 6:23 AM
The man stands 12 feet tall, eyes closed in what might be pain or transcendence, chains falling off his outstretched arms, scars striped across his muscled back. Opposite him, a woman on a pedestal cradles an infant and thrusts a document into the air, her face calm and resolute. With those figures in the forefront,… Read more.
J6 Insurrectionists Lost this Battle, but They’re Winning the War…
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 6:39 AM
The media covered the 2016 US presidential election as if it were little more than a challenge on Donald Trump’s reality TV show, The Apprentice. This, because they realized from the moment Trump descended the escalators in his gilded tower to announce his campaign that, when it comes to their bottom line, covering politics as… Read more.
Emma Raducanu Fires Coach. That’s a Red Flag
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 12:34 PM
Raducanu Fires her coach 18-year-old Emma Raducanu shocked the world two weeks ago by winning her first Grand Slam at the US Open. Everyone probably thought her coach, Andrew Richardson, had much to do with her feat. That’s why Raducanu shocked the world again this week when she fired him. Perhaps, now that she’s a big celebrity, she needs a celebrity coach… Read more.
Purgatory: Deporting Haitian Migrants Back to Haiti…
Monday, September 20, 2021 at 7:07 AM
As the first planeloads of angry Haitian migrants arrived in Port-au-Prince on Sunday after being repatriated from the U.S.-Mexico border, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security defended the deportations, saying misinformation is behind the attempts to enter the United States. Emphasizing that the administration is accelerating repatriation flights to Haiti and possibly other… Read more.
Podcast: Indie Film ‘Paradise: Love’ and Female Sex Tourism
Sunday, September 19, 2021 at 7:12 AM
Episode 46: White Cougars Hunting Black Stallions in Africa and the Caribbean… Related commentaries: neo-colonialism sex tourism… Listen.
Hey, AOC, We Can Wear Cute Slogans Too…
Saturday, September 18, 2021 at 7:08 AM
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Educating and Defending Nicki Minaj on Covid Vaccines…
Friday, September 17, 2021 at 6:27 AM
No doubt you’re aware of the international spectacle rapper Nicki Minaj caused when she informed her 156 million followers on social media why she was not attending the Met Gala on Monday night. It all began when she posted a series of tweets, explaining that she could not provide the proof of Covid vaccination required,… Read more.
Met Gala – a Strange Schmoozefest of Latterday Lady Godivas, Marie Antoinettes, and Scarlett O’Haras…
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 6:23 AM
This blog is replete with commentaries exposing the fashion industry’s Marie-Antoinette sense and sensibility, antebellum notion of beauty, and nakedly prurient appeal. Indeed, regarding this last point, cognitive dissonance is such that the best-dressed women these days are often the least dressed. But I have decried everything from mannequins strutting their skinny bones on catwalks… Read more.
9/11 – 20 Years Later. Who Won? Ha!
Monday, September 13, 2021 at 6:39 AM
Many Americans are just too jingoistic to concede the Taliban won this 20-year war. But the way the Taliban presided over America’s humiliating retreat from Kabul last month betrays the truth. As it happened, here is how I declared the Taliban (and their al-Qaeda hired guns) the winner on 9/11 … 10 years ago: If… Read more.