Chasing the Mob from Behind
Burned out at the end of the Joy-Ann Reid hour on MSNBC, I am ready for mindless tv. By that time, my intellectual palette is dulled...
How Much is Too Much?
If it were a perfect world, I would like to think that the most recent attacks on young black millionaires are just a coincidence. In...
Bamboo, Watermelons, and Rainbows
Have you ever asked yourself, why are so many GOP political theories race and gender-based? The latest is that voter ballots in Arizona were smuggled...
WI-Sen: Amy McGrath Is Back To Help Give Sedition Caucus Member RoJo The Anti-Vaxxer The Boot
Yesterday was a very busy day for me so I’m playing catch up today. Received this e-mail yesterday from former Air Force Pilot and U.S....
Minerva @ Midnight: eat pie under the covers
The week has started badly and tragically. Even the Suez Canal got blocked. but we should at least think about Spring Cleaning, even if we...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: Beef & Broccoli, Asian Blackness, and a Trappist Monk Gap
“The universe has been to them.” (Resident Alien) Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table...
TX-Gov: Beto O'Rourke (D), “We are nearing a failed state in Texas due to Republican leaders”
Beto O’Rourke (D. TX) had some harsh words yesterday: x“We are nearing a failed state in Texas. And it has nothing to do with God,...
Lincoln Project offers two NBA coaches
Steve Kerr & Doc Rivers who are both very much straight talkers, and not just in this piece another good ad from the @ProjectLincoln folks:...
Actor Ethan Hawke & NBA Coach Steve Kerr Help Beto O'Rourke Flip Texas Blue
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered By People: Golden State Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr Only...
In the Thought Bubble
Men’s basketball has been in the Bubble and fittingly (I guess) the women are in the Wubble. Baseball is playing before packed houses of canned...
Kushner: Protesting NBA players are 'very fortunate' they have the 'luxury' of taking a 'night off'
Good God, Little Lord Fauntleroy. Read the room. What exactly are you trying to accomplish with this response? Way to seize the moment with your...
NBA coach on GOP: 'They're spewing this fear … We’re the ones getting shot'
During a postgame press conference yesterday, Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers had a powerfully emotional reaction to the recent shooting of Jacob Blake in...
MSNBC Host Hallie Jackson's maternity leave statement upon her return, poignant
One could not help being moved by the sheer empathy displayed by MSNBC Host Hallie Jackson, who used her return from maternity leave to make...
GA-Sen B: WaPo Highlights All The Events Giving Rev. Raphael Warnock (D) The Path To Senate Victory
Paul Kane at The Washington Post has an op-ed out where he highlights a “confluence of events” that give Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) an...
AZ & GA-Sen B: NYT, “Republican Senators in Arizona and Georgia Have a Problem: The Base”
From The New York Times: As Representative Doug Collins went booth to booth at a recent Republican jamboree in northeast Georgia’s Rabun County, he was...
GA-Sen B: Warnock (D) Slams Loeffler (R) For Being On The Wrong Side Of History On WNBA BLM Movement
Glad to see this: A Democratic candidate for one of Georgia's U.S. Senate seats is weighing in on his opponent's stance on the Black Lives...
Joe Biden Launches His First Campaign Newsletter To Keep Supporters Up To Date With The Campaign
Received this e-mail today from former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign: This is our first of regular newsletters we will be sending around to...
Trump's casual racism returns in his COVID-19 presser because “the story of life” as Market falls
All gains since Trump’s inaugural have been lost as the stock market hit two circuit breakers today while Trump led the WH daily briefing. Trump...
KY-Sen: The Week, “Mitch McConnell (R) is aiding and abetting the spread of coronavirus”
Ryan Cooper at The Week doesn’t mince words: The outbreak of coronavirus has become a full-blown epidemic in the United States. The NBA has suspended...
Trump says “No Cooties, please, we're British” as COVID-19 will get “worse and worse and worse”
Throne room cootie report has Trump restricting European travel to US, except for the UK meaning that the Brits will be a meatshield for air travel...
Democrats Taking More Pandemic Precautions than Republicans; NCAA Bans Crowds for “March Madness”
politicalwire.com/… www.economist.com/… YouGov has released a poll showing Democrats are taking the coronavirus pandemic much more seriously and are taking more precautions than Republicans. The...
He was “Just” Kobe
Usually, when the word ‘just’ is used it is often seen as a reductive descriptor of one’s character, in this case, the word just made...
One More Year Of This Stuff (OMYOTS) … some wacky items today
A distortion that probably didn’t need publicity because the sample is flawed. "The survey from Quinnipiac University Poll released Wednesday found that 47 percent of...
For Trump, only WWII alliances count as he proclaims the return of the incandescent lightbulb
x"Look, I don't want you to rob the bank. I think robbing the bank is a bad idea, and I do not endorse it. Now...
Raptors player on White House visit: 'It's a hard no'
If you’re a Canadian team made up almost entirely of Americans that plays in a predominantly American league and you win that league’s championship, should...
Droning on with the Lies
Unlike the title suggest, the configuration of race and war in the immediate future may have a new facade. I fear a new war, but...
If Lake Placid could host the Winter Olympics, then Milwaukee can host the DNC
Twice, most recently in 1980, the tiny village of Lake Placid, New York, which has fewer people than my hometown of Westville, Illinois, hosted the...
Howard Schultz would be Trump 2.0 — just ask a Seattle SuperSonics fan
We need a serious Howard Schultz presidential run like we need another government shutdown. Of course, we could get both. Let’s hope we get neither. Schultz...
Treasury Sec'y Mnuchin's NFL comments best reveal the dangerous, ignorant rot of this administration
“Foreclosure King” and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had some deeply dumb — but lap-dog loyal — things to say about President Trump’s NFL comments on This Week...
