Brave New World Quote

This is post #200 again. I had over 250 posts at one time before I sabotaged myself and had to rewrite all of them. Because I had to do everything all over I didn’t just put the content back. I did an edit. We are months away from voting onContinue Reading

BLM I-95 Protest

This week, 13 activists stood across the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 in Downtown Richmond for a half-hour. They had a banner hung on the fence of the Chamberlayne Avenue overpass that said, “Black Lives Matter”.  Tonight, as a baker’s dozen protesters stopped traffic on I-95 just under the ChamberlayneContinue Reading

You are so awful. Winning?! Don’t you care about people? Don’t you realize that the losers are going to feel awful? They are going to feel terrible. There is only one happy person in this here kickball game, the one that is a winner. Everybody else is sad. Do youContinue Reading

PS 47 Facade

A win for one means a loss for many more. Winners are, on their face, an instance of disparity. For every one winner there are the great masses who didn’t win. So, the train of thought goes, the problem is the winner, who by victory has created angst for everyoneContinue Reading

I fear we are witnessing the end of an age. 5 police officers gunned down by a veteran who managed to acquire an assault weapon. Please let’s not rehash the “less guns=more safety” conversation. The bodies in the streets are a bellwether of a generation long end to the American Experiment. It’s going to get worse, much worse.Continue Reading

Welfare Mom

I was at the table where we sat for two hours a day, five days a week, being acculturated by well-meaning upper-middle class white folk. The organization was an NGO started by a church-lady from a West-End church that found a problem needing her solution. The solution was to teachContinue Reading