Analyze the following: ‘Moxie’ by Jerome Shea When Moxie was first in your mouth, you didn’t know what you had taken in. But by then it was past worrying. Of course you could spit it out but, a good New Englander, you swallowed. Then the first charge hit. Dry—I remember that so clearly—not the silly […]
He’s a crossfire pinball wizard no reason to get excited You ain’t going nowhere Until we kiss the sky He’s been away While the joker plays A hurricane phony Just got back today A bustle in your muffin better to burn out than it is to rust After the Beatlemania Has bitten the dust I see […]
BURNING IN HEAVEN (think Spinal Tap): Jack and Jill went up the hill and now they burn in heaven Jack climbed Jill but she was on the pill so now they burn in heaven Dick and Jane were doing the same We’re all burning in Heaven See Spot Run from the end of a gun […]
What is happening in Gaza is not new. Misguided religious beliefs and simmering, deeply entrenched racism each play a role in creating the conditions for genocide. In many cases, violence is perpetrated by one ethnic group upon another based solely on religious affiliation. In Cambodia, organized religion was considered a threat to civil order, and […]
Somehow the pundits on social media hailed Beyoncé’s performance as a profound political statement. Seriously? I hate to break this to America, but Beyoncé Knowles awful half-time show at Stupor Bowl 2016 was embarrassing to watch. There’s no other way to put it. Beyoncé’s musical statement was merely a cynical way to promote herself and her […]
Last week PoliTech, a non-partisan student political group at Texas Tech in Lubbock released a video, Politically Challenged. In the edited video host Courtney Plunk asks Tech students basic questions such as, “who is the vice president of the United States?” “From which country did America gain its independence?” and “Who won the Civil War?” […]
Noam Chomsky’s The Responsibility Of Intellectuals is a stinging rebuke to the Main Stream Media’s (MSM) role in spreading disinformation and the “spin” that accompanies all information which threatens the status quo. The piece was written back in 1967 at the height of the US Cold War with the Soviet Union and on the cusp of […]
Federalist Paper #10 is a continuation of Federalist Paper #9, entitled, The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, in which James Madison argues for the need of a successful Union to “break the control and violence of faction.” According to Madison, these factions are “diseases” born of dangerous vices. […]
According to “Publius” in The Federalist Papers, a faction is “A number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or a majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the […]
“Doctor be trippin’ hard, today, Roscoe.” I’ll never forget those words. I was manning the cash register at Delta Drugs, the pharmacy my dad Roscoe owned in San Bernardino, California. I cleared my throat. Denise was the Nursing Supervisor at Dr. Hawkins’ medical Clinic located a few doors down in the building that he and […]
