So I guess I made a slight miscalculation. From the trailers alone, I thought it was clear that people would be flocking to see Detroit this weekend but that no one would give Kidnap a chance. And while certainly, neither of them is going anywhere near blockbuster status, initial box office reports show that the exact…
Hey, do you remember that time when there was that Grand Jury convened to decide whether or not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the GJ decided not to and in response the people of Ferguson rioted and burned their own city to…
top: Tamir Rice, Micheal Brown, Eric Garner, John Crawford III. bottom: Darrien Hunt, Ezell Ford. Compliments: LiberalAmerica.org You know how I ranted a whole bunch about the Michael Brown incident over the last couple months? And a year ago, I ranted a bunch about Trayvon Martin? So you’d think I would…
Photo Credit: New York Times As I begin writing this, it is 5am and I have spent nearly 12 hours watching around the clock coverage of the Michael Brown/Darren Wilson/Ferguson, MO situation. I thought about writing about it yesterday before the decision came down (I’ve written about it a couple times before,…
Do you know why I post dumb silly stories about stuff like Hello Kitty or Fifty Shades of Grey? I like to think of them as palate cleansers. Nice, innocuous little tidbits to break of the monotony of me always ranting about racism or sexism or classism. Keeps me sane. Anyway, back to normal. Everytime I…
#IfTheyGunnedMeDown (A couple people have asked me my thoughts on the Michael Brown incident and I’ve been thinking about it over the last couple days. This isn’t so much a rant like I normally do, as it is a collection of those thoughts.) For those of you who couldn’t figure it…