What Ever Happened to American Ingenuity??
Adapting to a new situation
When the Roaches Emerge
When Roaches Emerge…
The Freudian Slip or as Bubba Would Put It: A Good Ole Boy Done Screwed Up!
We are in a new era of colorblind racism. Racists, sexists, and other -ists try to hide their true feelings but if you listen, you can “hear” those feelings. For example, here is a quote from a Fox and Friends blatherer, Brian Kilmeade: And on Friday morning, “Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade expressed that lack of compassion remarkably clearly. Here’s what he said (per Mediaite): “Like it or not, these aren’t our kids. Show them compassion, but it’s not…
The Double Standard
So an interesting story today. Samantha Bee called the little Trumpette, Ivanka, a cunt, a phrase generally used by Trump Monkey himself for all of those women he dislikes. I am amazed at how much news coverage this incident has received yet so little about the pussy-grabbing, racist asshole who occupies the highest office in the land. To me, the shows a lack of common sense or concerns about the state of the Union. We truly have gone to hell…
Shifting dominant ideology
Unaware and Unexpected While in college, we had a black widow spider in a gallon glass jar on our desk. We would feed her crickets and one day, we decided to watch as the spider ate her meal. Much to our surprise, and unexpectedly, the widow came slowly from the top of the jar down to the cricket, tossed a silk lasso around one of its legs. The cricket did not move, unaware of the impending danger. She repeated this…
A More Dangerous World… Some Thoughts
While we have always lived in a society that favors a normalized, white model, one that reserves power and privilege to those who fit that norm, acts reinforcing -isms have been covertly perpetuated. There have always been open acts but limited in scope. The majority continued to hide their true natures…until now. A major shift in the political structure is now occurring. A person who has proclaimed himself to be racist, sexist, classist, exhibiting other disparaging behavior toward those different from him…