Winter Break

Hello everyone- Hope you all are well & had a happy holiday! I am on my winter break from school & so I haven’t been active on this blog in a while. I appreciate all the comments & will respond to each one when I return. Thanks to everyone who has helped my blog grow [...]

The “Angry Black Racist”

I’ve always tried to avoid doing it- getting into an internet fight. Fighting on the internet is about as productive as going onto facebook when you have homework to do. It just doesn’t work. But when I came across an article about the new web browser designed specifically African Americans in mind, I couldn’t [...]

Armchair Activism

We are born. We live. We love. We hurt. We reflect. We die. Perhaps there is a God in the sky who will shake our hands if we were nice, and perhaps if we were naughty he will kick us a burning curb. The best I can figure in the interim is to help bring [...]

An Abortion Joke

I have a joke for you:
A distraught women walks into an abortion clinic. Due to (insert her reason here), she had finally decided to go through with the procedure.
The Doctor, about to preform the procedure says to her: “You know, you’re about to kill a baby right?”
The women, visibly upset looks at the doctor. She [...]

Senate Seat for Sale

Just when I thought my post Justice Makes a Blunder, which criticized the role of money government, would perhaps loose its relevancy in a new age of politics ushured in by the Obama administration, I realize I was wrong. Very wrong.
Apparently, having boatloads of money to run a campaign and crush your opponent is old-fashioned, [...]

Big Brother

I often talk about social policies I don’t like, social issues that I think are pressing, or solutions to problems from my point of view. Often though, the ideas are kind of at an academic distance, and so I thought I would share just one way these vague, and seemingly distant policies really effect me, [...]

…And Justice For All?

I’m a little surprised myself that to date, I haven’t dedicated a post solely to Universal Health Care. So here we go,  reasons why I think you (and everyone you know) (and everyone you don’t) should have health care:
#1 Currently, in the United States, health care is treated as a commodity. Got money? You got [...]

Automowoes

Why is it that political pundits and everyday Americans are eagerly following the various news stories about the potential auto industry bailout? Those directly and indirectly related to the auto industry are waiting with baited breath for a congressional rescue, and the rest of us shake our disapproving heads at the notion, hoping it doesn’t [...]

The AIDS “Problem”

AIDS in Africa. A terrible thing huh? I’m not actually convinced. People are going around talking about this “Global AIDS Week of Action” as if AIDS were some sort of global pandemic. As far as I concerned, 1.5 million dying each year in Africa and 11 million children being orphaned is an issue for sure, [...]

Just a Note

Hello all- hope you are well! It’s been about a week since my last post, and that can only mean one thing: this pesky “homework” bit of grad school is escalating as I head into finals >.<
My posts will likely be intermittment until Christmas break, but I encourage you to check back- maybe read [...]