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VENTURE…

vis-à-vis

VULTURE…

Das Kapital: Is it the pristine, untouchable Christianity among the religion of economic systems? Or, is it, in reality, “Dr. Venture and Mr. Vulture ”? The latter is the albatross that Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry are attempting to lay about the shoulders of Mitt Romney. Who knew the Right-Wing’s resentment of Mitt Romney was so venomous that it would take the form of this unprecedented and sacrilegious attack upon sainted Capitalism? One would be hard-put to im ...

THE NEW DDD

No, this is not a potent insecticide. It is a new, direct – and, maybe, dangerous – democracy. It is a democracy wrought by the New Media – specifically, the Social Media. It is brand new, powerful and potentially dangerous for business and politics. Of course, what may be considered dangerous for business and politics could become elixir and power – to the people!

This subject is in reference to the recent corporate-client initiatives posed by Netflix, Bank of America a ...

(Editor’s Note: I said No. 100 would be my last posting for 2011. Apparently, the year is moving considerably slower than the pace of my outrage.)

CIRCUMVENTION

to bring about

ABSTENTION

The old bugaboo is back: What laws can we come up with that will keep away from the polls those who may be less inclined to vote for us?   Auguring possible, similar action by the U.S Justice Department in the future, Attorney General Eric Holder recently sued the State of South Carolina. The acti ...

VOTER-SUPPRESSION ON STEROIDS

Back in the bad old days, the Democratic Party-controlled Southern States were infamous for the Jim Crow roadblocks they would throw up to keep African Americans from voting. For those brave Nigras who ignored the subtle and overt KKK admonitions to avoid the polling places, there were weird and daunting hurdles for them to clear.

While White voters moved in and out the polling places unchallenged, in some cases, Black folk were required to read specifi ...

DID THE GOD PARTICLE

Arrive at

CHRISTMASTIME?

The Higgs boson (whimsically nicknamed, The God Particle ) is a hypothetical, massive, elementary particle. It is believed to be the agent that gives mass to the other particles and, if proven to exist, would require that science text books be re-written. For half a century, since the theory was developed, physicists steadily have been on the lookout for the Higgs boson.

Within the past few days, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC ...

TRUMP the CHUMP

Reeking with the essence of ego exuding from every orifice of his corpus in exaltatis, “The Donald” now is complaining that President Obama has not picked up the telephone and invited him to the White House in order to avail himself of Trump’s well honed acumen in affairs national and international.

What brass! It is pathological to think that, after mounting such a vituperative and demeaning campaign against the president, the latter would even give second thought t ...

AMERICA’S INVISIBLE F ű HRER

Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein F ű hrer! (One people, one state, one leader.) Berlin, 1936? No; Washington, D.C., 2011: One Party, One Mind, One Leader. Who is that tapeworm- leader in America’s belly? Grover Norquist.

What is a Grover Norquist? Only the most powerful individual in the USA. As once was said of the British press, Grover Norquist currently is our Fourth Estate – more powerful than our own constitutional trifecta . But, how can that be; what of our saf ...

“ OCCUPY , BYE-BYE ?” – Following the evacuation of Zuccatti Park in the middle of the night, there is talk of the end of the Occupy Wall Street movement. There are indications that such skeptics of the determination of those involved in the various iterations of the Wall Street model around the world have not properly conceived the intent of the serious participants. At this moment, other Occupy groups from the Northeast are planning to converge upon New York City tomorrow.

The Kingdom of ...

CAIN

to DIS- ABEL their

PAIN?

Have we shot past post-racialism and sunken into a Neverland , neo-nihilism? Could it be that my and others’ perceptions are in error? Are the right-wingers / Tea Partiers / “Christian” Fundamentalists now devoid of the racist instinct? Do they really love Herman Cain for his Acquired Immune Deficiency Conservatism? Are they, now, completely and uncomplicatedly unaffected by his blackness? If so, then, hallelujah! Who knew? I, certainly, didn’t knew – and you?

&n ...

POWER POLES to POWER MOLES

·        FDR installed the New Deal and its programs that lifted spirits and put people to work.

·        It fell to Truman to nuke Japan, and then save it and Europe.

·        Ike gave us the national highway network.

·        JFK said, “To the moon!”

·        Only LBJ could have rammed JFK’s Great Society through congres ...