Over a decade ago I wrote in these pages at the beginning of the second George W. Bush administration a posting that I titled “Slouching Towards Fascism.” It was the…
American cops have long had an uneasy relationship with Barack Obama (maybe because it has been difficult for them to pull him over for a broken tail light). There’s a…
In the last months of its ridiculous never-ending political season America’s insanities are beginning to tumble over one another, scrambling the mythologized and deluded minds of its nearly fully-armed…
Mel Gibson directing Jim Caviezel in The Passion of the Christ (Icon, 2004) It should be evident to any readers of these pages over the years that two of…
Among the rallying cries and slogans for the so-called “Brexit” of the United Kingdom from the European Union this past week was a familiar motto: “Take our country back.” We…
I can’t remember the movie it’s from, or even whether the line was delivered with irony: “A man should have sons!” intoned with a sort of stentorian Abrahamic authority. I…
When I first knew of Muhammad Ali he was Cassius Clay, and I didn’t really understand him. He was brash, loudmouthed and different from any Black man, from Steppin’ Fetchit…
Don’t shoot! I’m white Since it has been all over the media everyone must have some awareness of the incident at he Cincinnati Zoo of the 4-yr-old boy who…
Today,” presumptive Republican nominee” for President of the United States, Donald Trump, came to my city. He is speaking at the convention center, no doubt reiterating his promise to build…
President Obama became, today, the first American president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, where at the site near ground zero he made a speech that was unapologetic, but expressed “respect”…