There are a lot of reasons to have and keep a job
A few years ago in a critique of American post-modernity I argued that the sense of having or holding a professional trade for self-actualization reasons and purposes is gone andRead More
Don’t go digging in history unless you really, really……
I’m writing this morning because I couldn’t Youtube info on Brunhilda from Wagner operas. That is a bizarre segue into our topic for today; westerns and western themed dramas. I’mRead More
Crime pt 12
Crime, the stain of the Negro and the surface reason white folk claim they don’t want you in their neighborhoods or our children going to their schools in too greatRead More
What to do about Crime installment 2 (Installment 1.3 v 1 of why I write such good books)
I’ll begin this essay with a crude story. Most of my readers know that I’m not averse to using other people’s or my own crude stories. This is because sanitizedRead More
I got yo draws’ Juanita; And other Post-Modern Christian tales
I often tell people that my experiences in a mainline American Christian denomination were rougher than my experiences selling dope in the streets on the block. This is to argueRead More
Transvaluating Values with Dick and Jane
I need to present my Naomi Osaka and a couple of other essays as part of a series in which I am transvaluating values. I borrowed the word “transvaluation” fromRead More
Notes in the wake of the Asian Spa Shootings
We broke intellectuals have dangerous habits. In this regard we like to take assumptions, traditional ways of thinking and logic and flip them on their heads….to as it were, seeRead More
Naomi Osaka unofficial Revanchist (from someone who cares)
Jesus didn’t advertise, didn’t buy billboards in the next town. He didn’t advertise ‘it’ because he was ‘it’, when you are ‘it’ you don’t have to advertise, presumably. Come onRead More
Go Pelaton Team Go! Please Go!
Indeed it is motivating when a disembodied head you’re looking at on a screen says ‘JoeJones1234′ keep it up you’re doing great’! Yet I ask all my readers who’ve everRead More
The Genius of Segregated Bungee Jumping
I was fascinated by the fact that post-modern whites act very surprised when we tell them how distrustful we are of public institutions and public health with the most glaringRead More