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July 25, 2012
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What Do You Mean “We,” Mitt Romney

First, <a href=”http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2012072812/does-mitt-romney-care-about-black-people”>Mitt Romney goes to the NAACP convention</a> and basically tells a room full of Black folks, <a href=”http://archives.republicoft.com/index.php/archives/2005/11/07/on-knowing-whats-good-for-us/”>”If you knew what’s good for you, you’d vote for me,”</a> without seeming to realize how condescending and arrogant he sounded. … Continue reading →

February 17, 2012
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Didn’t She Almost Have It All

Damn. That was the first word that came to mind when I heard about Whitney Houston. I was sitting on the sofa, watching television with Parker when my sister sent me a text message. “Did u hear? Whitney houston died … Continue reading →

February 2, 2012
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Poisonous Parenting: The Santorum Edition

I mentioned earlier that I’ve been doing a bit of writing about the GOP candidates for the day job. Those posts are limited to policy issues, usually economic policy. But, like I said in the posts about Newt, there’s a … Continue reading →

December 8, 2011
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Herman Cain & Eddie Long: A Tale of Two Players

It’s rare that two very public implosions occur almost simultaneously or resonate so well with one another as the the crashing and burning of Herman Cain’s presidential campaign and Eddie Long’s marriage and ministry. It’s even rarer that two high … Continue reading →

May 3, 2011
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Galt Goes Bust, Pt. 1

This is rich. If you haven’t seen Atlas Shrugged: Part 1, the film that was intended to be the first in a trilogy that would bring Ayn Rand’s novel to the silver screen, because you were waiting for parts 2 … Continue reading →

October 5, 2010
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The Long Dark Night of Eddie Long, Pt. 3

Classic Predator Statements to the media and details of in the lawsuits filed by the four men paint the picture a man who qualifies not only as an “emotional predator” (a term I wasn’t aware of until just now), but … Continue reading →

October 4, 2010
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The Long Dark Night of Eddie Long, Pt 2.

The sex scandal swirling around Eddie Long is the kind of story that the media and consumers of media (in other words, nearly everybody) tend to find irresistible. As Joshua Alston wrote in Newsweek, it’s got everything: secrets, money, sex, … Continue reading →

March 3, 2010
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Making It Legal

I suppose it’s no secret anymore. We went down to the courthouse this morning, and got a place in line. At least 16 couples were waiting at 7:15 a.m. inside the city’s Moultrie courthouse, which houses the marriage bureau and … Continue reading →

October 30, 2009
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From Crash to Meltdown in 80 Years

It’s was 80 years ago this week that the Crash of 1929 kicked off the Great Depression. Not quite 79 years later, the fall of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008, sent the stock market into a meltdown precipitated by … Continue reading →

July 20, 2009
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Sotomayor & The Vulcan Standard, Pt 1.

I was probably an annoying person to have around if you were watching the Sotomayor confirmation hearings. I was so frustrated listening to them that I couldn’t help … um … talking back to the television. There is, after all, … Continue reading →

July 7, 2009
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It’s More Than Madoff

I scoffed when Bernie Madoff,through his lawyers, asked for a twelve year sentence in his fraud case. What some people think they can get away with pales only in comparison to what some people are actually allowed to get away … Continue reading →

June 12, 2009
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The Ultimate List – Time Travel

This post at The Best Article Every Day reminded me of a meme I launched years and years ago, on USENET. (I told you it was years ago.) Let’s say you get your hands on a brand new Time Machine. … Continue reading →

May 22, 2009
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The Master’s Tools, Pt 2.

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. ~ Audre Lourde The other reason I … Continue reading →

May 21, 2009
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The Master’s Tools, Pt. 1

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house… ~ Audre Lourde That’s for Marion Barry, a number of D.C.’s black ministers, and many African-Americans who seem to need the reminder. When the D.C. city council voted to recognize … Continue reading →

December 16, 2008
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This Can’t Really Be the Economy…

I’m not an economist. I’ve never studied economics, beyond reading The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Economics about a year ago. I’ve read about derivatives, and had my mind blown by the concept of securitization and the idea that people not … Continue reading →

December 5, 2008
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