Bill Maher’s blind spot is white people’s blind spot: When – haha – white people operate out of the place he did tonight on his long-running Real Time show on HBO, they do so out of a privilege that is misunderstood. Maher could not fathom, let alone concede that there are concessions that we – […]
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Common Decency
Why is common decency always missing from the conversation around every other crisis at hand or controversy du jour? For serious, why? Everybody now: Because there is more money in crisis. Most of our issues worldwide nowadays would be solved, if only we simply could apply a little compassion to any of our pressing matters […]
Half a Mill
A year-ish, give or take…depending on where you are, since the global COVID-19 pandemic thrust humanity into a long season of self-isolation and systems-shocking quarantine, America has lost more than 500,000 people to the novel coronavirus. More than half a million humans gone, only in the United States of America. The global death toll is […]
‘I Care a Lot’ x King of Cups
Rosamund Pike – with whom, I admit, I haven’t revisited since she oh-so-memorably Gone Girld her way to her first Academy Award nomination (I ought to check out A Private War and Radioactive, in which she portrays Marie Curie) – well, she’s back, playing hell-on-heels power caretaker/swindler or the elderly, Marla Grayson, in writer-director J […]
Will Smith Has a Lesson in Citizenship for Us
We have considered the 13TH; now, today, let’s learn about the Fourteenth Amendment of 1868. Hosted by One Strange Rock host with the most (and executive producer) Will Smith, Amend: The Fight for America is a new Netflix docu-series that zeroes in on the long slog, ever evolving…often lethal…, toward equal rights in the United […]
The Eddie Murphy Collective
I mean I knew about Eddie Murphy, but I didn’t know my Eddie Murphy…. Murphy came onto the scene a month and 48 Hrs. after I did back in 1982, you see, so it wasn’t until 1996, the year that also gave us his Nutty Professor remake, that I like, hopped onto the Eddie Murphy […]
Acquitted but Not Forgotten
Not in the mood for a second fun and expected Saturday morning surprise, huh, America. Fucking le sigh. He must be so happy – sooo happy – now that he’s beyond O.J.: Donald Trump, the Twice Impeached, was acquitted (I know!) of the charge of incitement of insurrection, because obviously. Seven Republicans did join the […]
A Comment Re: London Breed & Gavin Newsom
Get a life, people. It clearly, demonstrably, undeniably is one thing to harp on Donald – yuck…too early – Trump, and it is quite a ridikolous other to sue the governor as a pressure tactic to get restaurants to reopen, when schools ought to be the priority. Newsom, much like San Francisco Mayor London Breed […]
We Have Such a Beautiful Bay
The San Francisco Bay’s not for spilling oil in it; I don’t care it was an accident, Chevron. Why are we still having these type of “accidents,” anyway? Don’t a lot of people get paid lots of money to ensure things like this don’t happen? What’s it gonna take? A Beirut-type of incident? (Take a […]
Dare Greatly, America
The second impeachment of Donald “the Impeached” Trump can go ahead, for a trial is Constitutional. The U.S. Senate voted on it, OK…56-44, with six Republicans growing a spine and joining all 50 members of the Democratic caucus. For the ultimate in white privilege (oh, that’s right…), can you believe there was a debate? That […]
