Mark Cuban Loves Money, Gets Dunked on by Ted Cruz If you had Ted Cruz and Mark Cuban get into a Twitter battle on your 2020 Bingo Card, mark it down. The senator from Texas and the owner of the Dallas Mavericks are in the midst of a Twitter war over Cuban's refusal to condemn [...]
Why the Washington Redskins Name Needs to Change, but the Washington Logo Needs to Stay The Washington Redskins name is an abomination. No matter how much pride somebody takes in cheering for a team called the Redskins, "redskins" is a slur for American Indians (I shall be using the term "American Indian" as opposed to [...]
When it Comes to Speaking Out Against Hate There is a Clear Jewish Double Standard The Jewish double standard was on display this past week in the wake of DeSean Jackson and Stephen Jackson’s social media posts promoting Louis Farrakhan and erroneously quoting Adolf Hitler. While it appears many people were rightfully taken aback by [...]
Stephen A. Smith Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About the DeSean Jackson Saga When DeSean Jackson did the antiSemitic double-dip of promoting Louis Farrakhan and posting what he thought was an Adolf Hitler quote, my immediate reaction was, “I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for NFL players and owners to condemn his [...]
How The Wire Character's "Library Card" Comment Teaches a Dire Life Lesson in 2020 Brother Mouzone is one of the best characters from one of the best television shows of all-time; HBO's The Wire. An enforcer, who in appearance, is anything but. In a world of drug dealers, corruption, and killers, Brother Mouzone stands out [...]
Why Was the Obama DOJ So Interested in Silencing Michael Flynn Late this past week a peculiar thing happened; Jerusalem Post reporter Lahav Harkov broke one of the biggest stories of the last three years and nobody seemed to notice. Harkov reported that the Obama administration not only was the driving force behind U.N. Resolution [...]
Which Statues Make the Cut? None? When statues are torn down for noble reasons, the act and the accompanying video of that act can feel like a cleansing of past evils. Merely seeing the footage can send people into ecstasy and an overwhelming feeling of joy can spread throughout a liberated nation or group of [...]
Don Rickles' Comedy Teaches Lessons We Need to Learn Today Comedy is near and dear to my heart. My pops brought me up on Jack Benny, Laurel & Hardy, and the Three Stooges. As I got older, that grew to include the movies and bits of comedic gods like Mel Brooks, Chris Farley, and Don [...]
History Tells Me "Do Not Start Kneeling... Ever" History has a funny way of repeating itself. The old adage from George Santayana, that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," is more true today than it ever was. So when I started to see images of people and police officers kneeling [...]
Why Systemic Racism and Black Lives Matter Eats Its Own By now you have heard all the cries from the Black Lives Matter movement--and others--that there is systemic racism in America. People like to point at the criminal justice system, the rate of poverty between the black and white communities, as well as decades olds [...]
