Category Archives: race

I’m With Angela Davis Too

April 16, 2021 – 2:35 am

Angela Davis was the cover girl for the Black Panthers. She was and remains a true revolutionary. Now more than ever. But she was never alone. They fed the people. They spoke about freedom. They fought the pigs. RESIST. In the words of Bobby Sands IRA MP for Belfast – “Our revenge will be the […]

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Danish Penal Delight

December 29, 2020 – 8:01 pm

The nordic country of Denmark has a current population of 5,806,015 including the peoples of the remote Faroe Islands and ice giant Greenland. The penal system consists of forty-seven institutions holding approximately 3,795 prisoners of whom almost 30% are foreigners, legal and illegal. Each cell is a model for humane treatment, although in Thailand I […]

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Diversity

November 25, 2020 – 12:34 am

My father’s side of the family came over on the Mayflower. My Irish Nana sailed across the Atlantic on a cow boat from Ireland. My older sister’s husband is Jewish. My younger sister is married to an African American with Indian blood. My next-door neighbors in my old hometown were Neapolitans who emigrated from Argentina. […]

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Are You A Neanderthal?

October 30, 2020 – 8:43 am

Test Yourself : Are you a Neanderthal? 1. Do your eyebrows meet in the middle? +5 2. Can you lock your knees in an upright position? -5 3. Got a chin? If the answer is no, +3 4. How about a forehead? If not, +3 5. Is it easy for you to balance a book […]

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Couvre-Feu

October 21, 2020 – 5:02 pm

The curfew comes for the old French phrase ‘couvre-feu’ meaning ‘cover fire’. William The Conqueror adopted the Middle Ages ‘curfeu’ to call on the people to extinguish the household fires to prevent conflagrations. 8PM was the normal hour for the curfeu. Same as declared by Mayor DeBlasio and Governor Cuomo this afternoon, but these corrupt […]

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