¡Hola! I’ve been very busy with work lately and my back is acting up again, making writing painful — hence my absence and sparse writing. On the professional front, the good news is that I’ve been able to save my project…
“We were taught… that man’s business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle… Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. Thousands of years ago, the…
¡Hola! Everybody… Dang! The Neocon Zombies are back again. I swear! You can’t kill this plague of failed ideas no matter how many time they fail. Who’s next? Milton Friedman?!! Today, perhaps emboldened by the recent elections, the goobers, with…
Greed is Good! Check this out: Rape is a basic and necessary expression of human nature. Sexual assaults have been present in every society since the dawn of time. It is the natural drive of man to reproduce, to compete…
Facts are stupid things. — Ronald Reagan The best analogy I’ve come across regarding the neoconservative (now teabagger) movement is the one using the nesting habits of the cuckoo bird comparison. Cuckoos employ a rather interesting reproductive strategy involving what…
Or: Thinking Aloud… Quick! Stash away your brain. Yes, you know that gelatinous matter between your ears? I realize many of you don’t use most of it (the unused percentage being higher for teabaggers and their black and brown enablers).…
-=[ Black and White and Spic and Span ]=- -Naaaahhh… You ain’t no Porta Reecan. -I keep telling you: The boy is a Black man with an accent. — Wille Perdomo (for Piri Thomas), Nigger-Reecan Blues [Editor’s Note: I’ve been…
By Eddie Blue-Eyes ¡Hola! Everybody… Unless you’re living outside the USA, you have by now been treated to countless stories of Eddie Long’s “alleged” sexual predatory behavior. He is a major religious figure, known for his staunch, homophobic views and…
Some of the recent posts submitted by our fierce women authors here at Madness and Reality reminded me of the following… * * * -=[ Missoula Rape Poem ]=- by Marge Piercy There is no difference between being rapedand being…
¡Hola! Gringos! It’s National HisPanic Month (or something like that) and as the resident Nuyorican, I’ll be posting almost exclusively on things Latino/a over at my blog. * * * Being a Primer on How to be a Nuyorican via…