So, last night, I tuned in to Saturday Night Live to peep Kanye West perform. ‘Ye is a lot of things, but uninteresting he is not. Since he loves to be that controversial person out there, lets dive right into a discussion on this new song. He had me from the first line, especially on [...]
“When y’all was asking permission, I just stepped up and took it.” -Mos Def Greetings loyal readers. Another week is upon us, and now I am typing for the people once more. This evening, I’d prefer to take a break from the news, and just do something that is a bit more on the expository [...]
I recently read the 1980s science fiction classic Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card and found it to be a thoroughly enjoyable story despite the author’s personal view point on the subject of same sex marriage, which admittedly colored my reading and interpretations of some of the finer points of the story. Regardless of Mr. [...]
My generation is quick to label things the “landmark historical event analogue” of “our time”. Whether people are hailing the landing of a man-made probe on Saturn’s moon of Titan as the “moon landing of our time” or are discussing more terrestrial matters by attaching the label of “the civil rights battle of our time” [...]
We like to delude ourselves, especially those of us in major metropolitan, highly diverse, and liberal areas such as New York, into thinking that we are well on our way to being a “post racial” America. I remember, clearly, the white liberal media patting itself on the back during the 2009 Inauguration of Barack Obama [...]