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A LETTER

from the

”STRANGE LAND”

In the recent staging of my narrative play, “Strange Land / Strange Brand,” I attempted to channel the probable thoughts of intelligent, sentient peoples brought to North America to be subjugated, exploited and marginalized for the better part of four centuries.

Re-printed here -- without further verification of authenticity -- is a posting from the Web page, http://www.racialicious.com/2012/02/01/the-ghost-writer-jourdon-anderson-and-his-letter-from-t ...

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 ...

WHENCE…?

We, the human animal, are at once mean and marvelous. Above it all, our curiosity is our cure. As we begin the twelfth year of the new millennium, and as we attend to our seemingly meaningless, quotidian pursuits in Iowa and elsewhere, we continue to challenge the series of frontiers that have mocked us since our inception. Our nature is to study those frontiers and overcome them. That is why, at this moment, we as a species, are aboard twin vehicles seeking to divine the compos ...

(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 ...

THIS HUMBLE BLOG

WISHES ALL A GROG

In this one hundredth and final post of the year is a reminder that the below, narrative play, Strange Land / Strange Brand begins its three-day run on January 6, which coincidentally, is All Kings Day.

El día de los tres reyes magos is celebrated in Latin America, and presumably elsewhere. Mimicking the mission of the Magi, it is the day when, in this season, gifts are made to the children of those countries.

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T.P CLOWNS

T-P GOP

BIG-TOP TEPEE

The Tea Partiers have decided to celebrate the New Year by toilet-papering the Republican Party clown house. Appropriately, this culminates a year of very entertaining, but pitiful, P.T. Barnum , political pandering in the GOP, presidential-hopeful dressing room .

This was preceded by constantly humiliating Barry the Clown , in his lopsided, top hat and bright-patched, ill-fitting tuxedo, in the Ringling Brothers main tent. Constantly, they would suck him ...

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 ...