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Waiting for the Oil Man: Please Support the Propane Project
The Oil Man Do you know what it is like to be really, really cold? I do.I'm not talking about the cold that comes when you run outside and forget your sweater on a brisk day. Nor about the stinging...
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Hey America! Can you please stop killing our (usually) innocent Black male...
Jordan Russell Davis, Another Statistic I'm now at the place where I am 100% comfortable saying that it is yet again open season on Black people, especially young Black men, in America. With Jordan...
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The middle initial says it all.AIG, in the infinite wisdom of its Marketing aka Branding Department (because history suggests that one shouldn't credit the Board of Directors with that much sense), has...
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Natural Born Killer.'Hizzoner' Edward I. Koch, former three-term mayor and unrepentant gadfly of the City of New York, died on Thursday of congestive heart failure at the age of 88. His tenures as...
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Black History Month is again in full swing. Originally envisioned by the renowned historian Carter G. Woodson as Negro History Week, since 1976 the nation has been asked to take the month of February...
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Friday was a day of fallen heroes. Jesse Jackson, Jr. was indicted (after he'd already plea bargained), alleged to have stolen $750,000 of public funds and spent it on everything from Michael Jackson...
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Comin' for your ketchup.With the March 1 sequestration date bearing down upon us (again), the calculus about the adverse impacts has begun anew. On Thursday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan testified...
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A far less stereotypical hero than Hollywood myths admit.Proving that everything is working as intended for the 1%, the stock market continues to boom while consumer finances continue to deteriorate,...
View ArticleUPDATED: A Much Belated Thank You and Update
This is a diary that should have been written more than a week ago, when I was released from hospital after my surgery and sent home to continue what I was told would be the ongoing long process of...
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These guys get blamed for EVERYTHING.Edward Snowden appears unwilling to face the legal consequences of his asserted-conscientious civil disobedience: he has stated his intent to fight his extradition...
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Gutting rights with a cynical smile
The Chief (In) JusticeSmiling faces, sometimes, pretend to be your friend Smiling faces, show no traces, of the evil that lurks within… Let me tell you: the truth is in the eyes, 'cause the eyes don't...
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How will you spend your 67 minutes next Thursday?On Monday, a 9th Circuit District Court judge gave a major victory to the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) in its signature litigation, Jewel v. NSA...
View ArticleVerdict in George Zimmerman Trial
Not guilty.[No, this isn't going to be a long diary. There is so much to reflect on as it relates to this case, how it began, how it was investigated and how it was tried that I strongly encourage...
View ArticleThe Onion: On Point, Yet Again re: George Zimmerman's Acquittal
Folks can say what they want about the satirical magazine, The Onion, but as has regularly been the case for more than 100 years, its writers make important timely points about our society over and...
View ArticleLast minute, but......(NYC directed)
Well, my dinner date for tonight in Manhattan cancelled just before my flight took off (ain't in-flight technology grand LOL). So I now find myself with no plans! I am literally in NY for 12 hours,...
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For the last time, this crisis was NOT caused by "irresponsible homeowners!"President Obama got it wrong this week when, in speaking to an audience in Phoenix about his vision for housing in America...
View ArticleWith friends like these, can we really ever all hear each other? Feminism vs....
It's rough, living in the Intersection. Especially when you feel like your allies are only allies sometimes, not all the time.When I was first asked to write the inaugural piece for the launch of the...
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When a judge 'gets it' on racism: The decision in Floyd v. City of New York
Next time, it could be you, if you are a Black or Latino male. Some have already written this week about the decision in Floyd v. City of New York finding that Stop and Frisk was unconstitutional as...
View ArticleRaceGender DiscrimiNATION: Lean into What, Exactly?
Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead is the latest feminist manifesto and seems to be growing in influence rather than diminishing each day. The "Lean In Movement" is growing by...
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Thank you—and we're sorry.On Thursday, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a stay preventing implementation of remedies ordered to bring "Stop and Frisk" into constitutional compliance...
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