Motown Records was formed in 1959 by Berry Gordy to give African Americans a record label where they could get the full artistic respect and freedom they deserved. Motown Records not only started a great musical movement but accelerated...
Cartoon by Jeff Parker - Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com - http://www.cagle.com/news/Thanksgiving09/main.asp
I saw this cartoon and I had to share it with everyone. It says so much of the worldview of our conservative brethran, and yet if it was the shoe...
This morning my partner's mom came to our room to ask me about something. She told me that my would-be brother-in-law just got an email that says the White House refused to let any ornaments on the tree that...
As most everyone knows by now, Lou Dobbs has reported that someone has taken a shot at him and his wife or at the very least, his house. The police dispute Dobbs' claims, but that hasn't stopped America's self-proclaimed...
I was born a Democrat. My parents were Democrats before me. My father cast his first vote at 21 in 1936, for FDR. Four years later, when she turned 21, my mother did the same. She came from a...
"IF YOU CAN KEEP IT” is the equivalent of the robot in Lost In Space saying "Danger Will Robinson!", and we need to pay attention to the warning about the ongoing campaign to erase civil rights.
A federal judge today blocked many of the key provisions of the Arizona Immigration law. Score one for the Constitution and rationality.
Aside from the aspects of this law that institutionalized racism (giving BS lip service to, "We won't racially...
The house she rented was in a neighborhood of starter homes in Charlotte, NC. She paid her bills and through no fault of her own, faced eviction because her lousy landlord didn't pay his/her mortgage.
I spent most of yesterday trying to intellectualise the outcome, but it comes down to three things, racism, sexism and privilege.
RECENT POSTS
The MyPillow Guy To Be The MyBankruptcy Guy
“The perverted ambition of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country, or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial confederacies than from its union under one government.”—Federalist 1.