The night Barack Obama won the 2008 election, I gave the news to my mother-in-law, who at the time was dealing with the effects of Alzheimer’s and dementia. “Maggie! Barack Obama has been elected president! A Black man is the president of the United States!” Her eyes shone with a light I hadn’t seen in […]
The Green Bay Packers of the ’60s ran the “Lombardi” or ‘”Power Sweep.” The Washington Football Team (formerly known as a racist slur) ran the “Counter Trey.” The University of Southern California (USC) ran a play called “Student Body Right,” most notoriously for halfback O.J. Simpson. You know they’re going to run that play. They […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: When you’re a part of a band of former journalists, perusing the news of the day becomes a special treat. While we hear the same accounts of long, drawn-out hearings that everyone else hears on CNN or MSNBC, our views are often salted with our own memories, and those of our colleagues, who, […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article by staff writer LarryBDNC was written nearly 20 years ago, probably even before he became known as LarryBDNC. We reprint it here today because it has new relevance as America experiences a reawakening to racial injustice. In these days of battling both an ongoing pandemic and racial injustice, believe it […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: When staff writer LARRYBDNC wrote this piece in December 2018, we had no idea who George Floyd was or that he would die less than two years later under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, igniting protests across the country and bringing “Black Lives Matter” back into the headlines. Donald Trump and […]
Whenever there is an uprising in this nation, the first thing people forget is WHY society is boiling over. “I know you people are upset but what does the looting do to help your cause?” Upset? I’m a 62-year-old black man in America, and I can be hurt, maimed or killed by anyone who doesn’t […]
I’ve watched Donald Trump fail upward for my entire adult life. The first time I ever heard of him was when he fucked over the Museum of Art over the Bonwit Teller bas reliefs when he was doing the demolition for Trump Tower. The irony is that had he done nothing other than been a […]
Bernie Sanders today dropped out of contention to be the Democratic nominee for the 2020 presidential election. He shouldn’t have been in this race to begin with because no matter how you slice it, Bernie Sanders isn’t a Democrat. Now to me, that is a mere formality because the guy caucuses with the Democrats and, […]
Greetings from Earth Two! The Republican Party has gradually divorced itself from the real world and taken a not insignificant amount of the population with it. There will be no witnesses or evidence in the Senate Trial of Donald Trump because on Earth Two, we don’t need no stinking witness. With the Senate impeachment trial […]
The Republicans are in full hypocrisy mode. Their entire argument against impeachment is “The Democrats are being mean because they just don’t like President Trump.” They have attempted to hijack the narrative with their histrionics about the unfairness of the process and how Donald Trump did nothing wrong in requesting a foreign country to conduct […]
In the wake of Sen. Kamala Harris’ decision to suspend her bid for the presidency, it appears the narrative of her campaign turmoil had become such she could no longer compete without the funds to control her story. The narrative had slipped precipitously since her hugely successful rollout when she stood before 20,000 people and […]
One thing I learned back in my college days* was if your enemies are walking into an L shaped ambush, let them walk all the way into the kill zone before firing. They then have two choices, run and die or stand and die. The Trump Administration is running headlong into an L shaped ambush […]
The Shinbone told y’all back in Spring we’d end up right here. Too many jurisdictions conducting too many investigations with too many lawsuits to defy discovery by said investigations. If it hadn’t been the whistleblower (Manna!) it would have been something else. This was a matter of WHEN and not IF. The tide has turned […]
“I’m not sure that I’ve ever even heard of the Category 5. I knew it existed, and I’ve seen some Category 4s — you don’t even see them that much, but the Category 5 is something that I don’t know that I’ve ever even heard the term other than I know it’s there. — President […]
Barack Obama called a cop stupid in July 2009 and lost white support for the rest of his presidency. For weeks the right wing howled, the progressives snorted and the moderate Dems capitulated. Instead of flexing their majority muscle in the Senate, the Democrats in charge of moving the Affordable Care Act (ACA) legislation kept […]
One of the first jokes I learned as a kid had this punchline: “All I saw was the monkey trying to put the cork back in the pig!” Listening to the pundits discuss Donald Trump’s televised statement on the massacres in El Paso and Dayton, and hearing them actually wonder out loud if Trump is […]
White people are killing Americans to “save America.” What is white America going to do about it? The President knows investigations from the House of Representatives and various federal, state and local jurisdictions are closing in and he will inevitably face justice. He’s in the bunker and rather than surrender he has decided to burn […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: In this business we are committed to giving our readers a daily take on all of the unspeakable going’s on at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. As former daily news reporters and editors, it’s how we are put together. However, our current role as internet bloggers afford us certain unalienable rights. We have the […]
The Democrats better SHOW black and brown folks how they’re gonna kick Donald Trump’s ass because he is trying to start some serious shit and he is desperate enough to do crazy stuff. Don’t talk policy, talk shit. While Congressional Oversight continues and various jurisdictions investigate Trump, party Democrats not involved in oversight or […]
This time last week, the drumbeat for the Democrats to “DO SOMETHING!” had gained in volume and intensity as pundits who should know better started calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to step down as leader. People were calling on House Democrats to stand up to defend the Constitution against Trump and the GOP […]
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