He must be a student of African politics because he bears all the earmarks of an African ‘leader’. — After the election Of Barack Obama, I can’t help but think Americans are developing a fondness for leaders with some ‘African’ in them. Welcome to the motherland, America. I love politics. Unlike many who read into it through an emotional lens, I have dug myself out of that hole, and…

Gah, aren’t we overly fixated — The average Westerner will pretend to wanna believe that Mexicans and Muslims are anything other than what our biased media makes them out to be. Most are deeply convinced that if these people weren’t dealing drugs, extorting businesses, flying planes into buildings, or ‘blessed’ with oil quite frankly, they’d all…

White House forced to confront the term — Joe and Joseph are overused first names thanks to their compelling alliterations, but who might G-Side Joe be, exactly? I have asked myself this question for exactly one week. I hazarded a guess and found the slogan fitting for the long-dead Soviet tyrant Joseph Stalin and the lesser-known Joseph Mengele…

We are to speak no ill of the dead — There used to be a time when white people discovered new lands all over the place quite literally. There also used to be a time when individuals like Henry Kissinger were considered brilliant men — men who could achieve the tasks set out before them without a conscience. Sociopaths on…

Oh boy! Tim Scott is the pleasant-looking fellow (pictured far right), and amiable dunce who first campaigned across South Carolina as a proud 30-year-old virgin unabashed about his Evangelical Christian faith and steadfast devotion to God’s commandments. By his own admission, that abstinence pledge has not survived his political career. …

Dressing a fascist👌 — Dressing well is another form of communication, so for politicians, it’s something they have to do. It just so happens that the crop of wannabe fascists in this country would be the ones to make the poorest of sartorial choices to render themselves some of the worst dressed. Take the…

The case of the casual Israelite — The Bible is the most dangerous book ever written …. keep it under lock and key.“ — George Bernard Shaw There is a nobler version of Christianity that affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance. …

It is also the backdrop of the Samson & Delilah sex drama — Author’s Note: I don’t believe in the veracity of religious texts, especially the Holy Bible — the clever additions and tweaks every now and then are too numerous to be taken seriously. But I sometimes indulge it when religious tensions threaten to spill all over my coffee table. If you’re…

Part 2: War for the sake of peace — “Today nearly everything is made in China- except for courage, it’s made in Palestine.” — Anthony Bourdain (Parts Unknown) War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. …