CONNUBIAL CONTRACT?

As the modern world’s first democratic republic, the United States of America has resorted to its flexible Constitution for the purpose of settling otherwise intractable disputes between federal and state sovereignty. The Grand Exception:

Apologists for White Supremacy , before, during and after the War Between the States, cite the aims of the Confederacy as wanting to preserve that peculiar Southern way of life. To any damn fool – then or ...

FRAUGHT WITH DREAD

Mitt Romney is despised by the right wing of the Republican Party. Nevertheless, they are smart enough to realize that he is all they have. They tossed every available crazy within their ranks against the primary wall , hoping that at least one of them would have enough stickum to hold in that needed voting center – but, alas, they are stuck with the Mittster. Now, their work begins. They must convert this mild-mannered Walter Mitty into a take-no-pri ...

THE KING’S SPEECH

By Mark Logue and Peter Conradi

Read by Graham Malcolm

(Three Stars * * *)

Reviewer: Curtis W. Long

Aussie gives Voice

to

Empire Without End

Bertie, the younger of two sons of King George V of England, is bedeviled by the inability to speak fluently. He is comfortable, knowing that he follows his brother in the line of succession to the throne.

The king dies, and the Prince of Wales becomes Edward VIII. The new king wants to marry ...

MENTALLY BLIGHTED

Our maim difficulties as a people, a nation, a culture, a linguistic grouping, began at our formation on the eastern shoreline of the bicoastal, continental land mass we now occupy. All of those irritants that constantly roil within our innards, at the beginning of the 21 ^st century, date back to the point of our creation as a people with collective aims. The major principle established at that time -- and which only relatively recently has begun the proce ...

YA STOOPID BEE’ -AHCH!”

This basic philosophy in ghettoese henceforth should be Item Number One in Secret Service Class. It is contentious enough having to deal with a street-pimp, but in a prostitution-legal zone such as Cartagena, Colombia, astute members of the principal POTUS -protection police force at least should be aware that – when it comes to official foreign visitors – the local pimp is an aggregate of, 1) the hotel staff; 2) the local gendarmes; 3) the local c ...

RIGHT WRONGS

ONLY THE DENIERS

The correct (and grammatically incorrect) adage is: “ Right is right, and Right don’t wrong nobody!”

When the Reverend Jeremiah Wright says (with the fervor of any hell-fire preacher) that America’s chickens have come home to roost, he is merely calling attention to the obvious. As I have indicated in previous postings, since Reconstruction, the United States, unfairly, has striven to saddle the South with the sins of slavery and subseque ...

should be:

NORMAN, WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?

Theatrical directors Kristen Fogle and George Bailey have just completed the first of April’s weekend hilarity at the Community Actors Theatre (CAT).   “Norman, Is That You?” is the creation of American playwrights Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick. It was a hit on Broadway. In Hollywood, it provided a vehicle for Redd Foxx.

I would be at a disadvantage as a reviewer, since I never saw or read the original play. I remember o ...

to the

OTHER SIDE OF THE SIGN

In this season of The Passover, which freed a people from the clutches of a brutal, desert slave-master, and a brutal event on Mount Calvary intended to free all of humanity, let us see how we have done over the past three thousand years:

·        That brutalized desert people, among other things, still is blamed for the brutality of Mount Calvary.

·        Those claiming ...

The bundling of bad loans that ushered in this presidency,

Has now come home to roost right in your residence – see,

If your payment’s behind, they will not give you a boost,

But your home will be theirs -- for fat cats to roost.

Back in the thirties, it was, “Brother, can you spare a dime?”

But, today, Morgan Stanley announces a new paradigm.

It does so with little piety –

Today, we are the, “Home Rental Society.”

All of those hundreds of billion ...

A hoodie and ice tea and Skittles,

Although they are not a disguise,

Can oftentimes lead to acquittals –

And, other times, to your demise.

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On a Florida-rainy-night’s amble,

Went a young man, alone with his thoughts,

Unaware he was taking a gamble

In a world that is filled with all sorts.

He was watching a game; it was half-time. –

And he wanted a respite, as well.

It was written, th ...

Discussing the  horrendous, Florida, hoodie, killing, the incredulous female of two TV talking heads asked the above question.

(Their reduced epidermal melanin had made it unnecessary for them to walk through life, in this country, either mentally or physically looking over their shoulders for the explicit or implied rebuff based upon the mere fact of their existence.)

He, considerably less naïve, decided to dismiss the rhetorical nature of the question and ans ...

INTO INSIGNIFICANCE

(Continued)

In a previous posting of this same title, I described the GOP’s nonsensical writing-off of the African American voter.

(In that regard, I am mystified by those microscopic few African Americans who fiercely pledge undying fealty to a political party that may appear to accept them as individuals, while intrinsically rejecting them as part of a class with a four-century history of marginalization from the larger society.)

This ...

INTO INSIGNIFICANCE

Despite its grand tradition of being the first United States political party fully to support the noble sentiments, so poetically (and hypocritically) enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, the Republican Party is on a downward path to perdition. Significantly and ironically, Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be elected under its banner.

The GOP began its current spiral into the fiery depths when it allowed itself to become the fi ...

The most recent school-shooting tragedy is a mounting reminder of our tin ear, fuzzy vision and lack of clear-thinking when it comes to equating the needs of the Minute Men with our ability, today, to defend what has become a 21 ^st century power house against all comers.

Our national, juvenile fixation with the Wild West, where the fastest and most accurate gun ruled, has transmogrified into the development of smart armaments and world domination. In the process, th ...

in

SMETHWICK

Malcolm X was visiting England just nine days before he was assassinated in New York City. Upon the occasion, he was invited by residents of the town of Smethwick to observe a blatant racist scene there.

After the breakup of the British Empire, many who had been made subjects of the realm in countries that had been colonized over the centuries, descended upon the motherland proper, thinking (in many case mistakenly) that they would be greeted as equal, ...