Trayvon and Barack and Opportunity
I have said most of this before, but it's a timely observation in light of yesterday's events.Barry Obama did not have to reckon with his blackness in the industrial strength version until he went off...
View ArticleTwin Anxiety
I ain't scared of no babies! I have many friends who would laugh at that remark because they saw me get really scared of babies--at least of the first one, the one that comes with no owner's manual....
View ArticleWhite Power Day in the SCOTUS, Part III of III
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is an avatar of hypocrisy in civil rights law. A descendant of slaves hailing from Pin Point, Georgia, his first language was Gullah.Thomas blames affirmative...
View ArticleChatting on the Choo-Choo
An argument for train travel is the people you meet. Some might take that as an argument against, but I’m not sure why a practicing xenophobe would be traveling in the first place? To travel is to...
View ArticleSelling Magic; Delivering Death
On July 12, James Ray walked out of an Arizona prison on parole.It's hard to object to his parole.Keeping him in prison is expensive.He only kills willing victims.But the public should know he's back....
View ArticleThe Price of Free
What can I say, I was young? Seventeen when I volunteered for service and nineteen when I volunteered for Vietnam. At the time, I think I would have said that freedom isn’t free. I was young.Not...
View ArticleThe Opposition is not the Enemy
There are persistent rumors that some rambunctious Republicans are going to go rogue and take up the art of politics and governing just like in the old days.Running in the other direction is the...
View ArticleCerebrum Mortuis
Ted Nugent was just on the tube calling Stevie Wonder "brain dead."He also asserted that racism was "gone" by the time he, Nugent, was doing national tours in the late '60s.Sure glad he cleared that...
View ArticleWars and Pieces of Law
Lawyers do get weary of being lectured about "technicalities," which I take to be any principle of law, procedure, or evidence that points to a result with which the speaker disagrees.Sometimes, there...
View ArticleWeighing Baby Veronica's Fate in the SCOTUS
The Supreme Court of the United States allows no cameras to record oral arguments, but they have allowed audio recordings. Wide access to the remarks of the Justices (excepting Justice Clarence...
View ArticleArrows From My Heart
If you are currently an important person by conventional standards, you may want to skip this because I’m speaking to myself at age….oh, fourteen or so upward.I know you because I was you. Raised on...
View ArticlePope Channels Jesus; Makes Headlines
“If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” Pope Francis Well, dude, you are, like, "the Pope," and in the past the Pope has been in charge of Judging...
View ArticleCall it Ishmael
So, I'm driving along listening to the BBC, and there's about to be a panel discussion on the question "Does feminism have a P.R. problem?"They spend a couple of minutes introducing the women on the...
View ArticleBorn and Raised for Death Row
This is chapter 12 of my book Ceremonies of Innocence: Essays from the Indian Wars. It's © 2012 by me, published by Dog Iron Press, and available on Amazon and Kindle and Kobo.I put it up in response...
View ArticleIn Memory of Jay Spotted Elk
This is chapter 13 of my book Ceremonies of Innocence: Essays from the Indian Wars. It's © 2012 by me, published by Dog Iron Press, and available on Amazon and Kindle and Kobo.It is posted in response...
View ArticleFacebooked
Facebook almost got me again.There was a pic of Willie and a question "Do you like Willie Nelson?"Are you kidding me? Do I like puppies and kitties? Do I like a frosty 'rita on a hot summer day? Do I...
View ArticleBillet-doux to Justices Scalia and Thomas
It's really hard to talk about originalism to non-lawyers because they think in terms of right or wrong, terms that do not fit one theory of interpretation among many.There is no right or wrong way to...
View ArticleWill Rogers and the Return of Golden Sacks
“It’s all right to let Wall Street bet each other millions of dollars every day but why make these bets affect the fellow who is plowing a field out in Claremore, Oklahoma?” My all time favorite...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Adoptive Couple
This is a communication to the prevailing parties in the SCOTUS case styled Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl.It was first published in Indian Country Today. Because I get paid over there, I normally just...
View ArticleElysium Reviewed
This is my latest on Indian Country Today, which I will have to embargo for a period of time which would probably mean the film would no longer be in the first run theaters. So you'll have to click...
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