Wow. Last night I was going into the kitchen to clean up from a lot of cooking done earlier in the day. I decided to turn the TV on in there, and since it was about 5 minutes after 10PM I decided to go to CNN since, as far as I knew, all sports activity […]

Last year when I wrote about the 41st Anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, I highlighted some of the things that had happened in the first few months of President Obama’s administration that related to race, and I was none too happy about any of it. I didn’t think Dr. King […]

It’s another year for Black History Month to try to get people who could care less to understand just what it used to mean to be black in America. I say it that way because based on a lot of what I see, most people care as much about that as they do about what […]

On Tuesday night in Massachusetts the Democrats got a rude awakening for their arrogance in thinking that the election of another Democratic senator was a given and lost a seat in the Senate that they hadn’t been expecting to lose. That now means that they don’t have the numbers to automatically bank on getting a […]

Today is the holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. I haven’t addressed it every year, though last year was something special because it was the day before Barack Obama was sworn in as president. It’s been a strange year, and I’ve sometimes wondered what Dr. King would have thought about the year in general. I […]