US Commits Yet Another Atrocity

I Want THIS on a T-Shirt...

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"Stop organizing rallies that isolate issues, and their solutions, into narrow, disjoint fragments, to marginalize dissent, distract the people, and delay the needed revolution against the singular cause of all societal problems: elite oppression of the people."

Maybe on a bumper sticker, too.

sj

 

Illegal Immigration

A Recurring Case of Blues

When I was in music lit class, back in the waybackwhen, a young white ass't prof began his lecture on the blues by describing it as a "contribution" of black America to music.
"It was Black people," he said, "who gave America the blues."
"Excuse me," interrupted my sax-playing pal, Mguma, "But wasn't it the other way around?"

Oh, yeah.
You dig?


sj

Dreams of Our Fathers

Not everyone has the same "founding fathers."

Past is Prologue

John Wayne on the Trayvon Martin Murder

Joe Burdette: It wasn't murder. 

Nathan Burdette: If he says it wasn't murder, why do you say it was? 

John T. Chance: Man gets shot that's got a gun, there's room for reasonable doubt. Man gets shot that hasn't got a gun, what would you call it?

From  Rio Bravo (1959) Dir. Howard Hawks