My Cup of Tea

My Cup of Tea Unless you have been in a coma, it is hard to escape all the talk about the Tea Party phe­nom­ena. Peo­ple are get­ting tired of gov­ern­ment waste and abuse. Frankly, I’m sur­prised it took this long. The Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence states that, “…and accord­ingly all expe­ri­ence hathit gets bet­ter. Read on…

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Cops: Public Servants or Fascist Pigs? (Part 1)

It was not many years ago when I con­sid­ered myself a sup­porter of “law enforce­ment.” (I made dona­tions, had the F.O.P. and Sheriff’s depart­ment stick­ers and every­thing.) Cops were, I believed, the good guys, pro­tect­ing the inno­cent and impos­ing jus­tice upon evil­do­ers. Oh sure, I knew there was cor­rup­tion hereit gets bet­ter. Read on…

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Fat, dumb, and happy in Amerika.

Let’s not mince words. The “Great Amer­i­can Demo­c­ra­tic Exper­i­ment” has failed. “In what way?” you ask, shift­ing your gaze from your wide-screen plasma ejac­u­lat­ing NASCAR, foot­ball, and “So You Think You Can Dance” to address your tat­tooed, bel­liger­ent, corporate-branded, entitlement-minded chil­dren. You look about your over­priced, over­sized, over-mortgaged home andit gets bet­ter. Read on…

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King for a day.

I intended to write on this topic sooner, but wanted to see how Mar­tin Luther King, Jr. was remem­bered over “his” hol­i­day. For one day a year, we take time to rec­og­nize, acknowl­edge, honor, dis­miss, for­get, and deny a man that was mur­dered for stand­ing up for what he believed.it gets bet­ter. Read on…

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In defense of Mark Twain and the N word.

My black friends, of whom I have many, will under­stand this dia­tribe. Oppor­tunis­tic whites will use this to deflect their short­com­ings towards my char­ac­ter in hopes of min­i­miz­ing their fail­ings. Disin­gen­u­ous blacks will seize my words to fur­ther per­pet­u­ate more hate and divi­sive­ness. If you are a hate­ful, narrow-minded bigot then that is your mis­ery. If you are a sanc­ti­mo­nious oppor­tunist look­ing for a whine fac­tor then that is your prob­lem. For the ratio­nal and rea­son­able who rec­og­nize the world, and peo­ple, for what they are and refuse to be iden­ti­fied by the hate­ful, igno­rant words of oth­ers, then I say wel­come! Remem­ber the word “nig­ger” for what it is. A symp­tom, a dis­ease, a defect, and iden­ti­fier of hate and igno­rance. We can’t hide from the ugli­ness in the world, but we can real­ize it for what it is and choose not to par­take in its dehu­man­iz­ing effects. Read on…

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