Michael Steele

I saved the photos from a 2006 post when Mike Tyson's ex-brother in law got beaten badly by a bland bald Jewish guy named Ben Cardin. Even the homophobe black mega preachers didn't vote for him. Ex Governor Bahama Bob Ehrlich's wingnuts cadre pretty much fed him to the wolves...and Mike dutifully let them gnaw. Why? For Mike really believes these rednecks and the Cheney types can and will evolve. God bless him.

So which Steele is my idol--Lex or Mike? Guess. It ain't the one with W. Better to have a big dick than to be one.

At least it wasn't Ken Blackwell. Lord...

Hillary in bloom

No matter what you think of her she nailed it tonight. She stuck a foot in Bush/Cheney/the GOP of the last 15 years' ass, shamed McCain and held a mirror up to her more maniacal supporters who've whispered about jumping from the Democratic ticket. I still think Barack will win by a hair, but the speech tonight was indeed reminiscent of FDR's endorsement of Al Smith at the 1930 Convention...

Ungawa, Bwana Shung Shi Wang! Bad Ju-Ju there!

Not that our hands are clean (and when I mean "our" I also include with U.S. government and corporate interests we African Amerians, our "revolutionary" intellectuals and artists...and that ol' Congressional Black Caucus...which will hopefully see some replacements like Kevin Powell soon), but hey, look't the Chinese backing up Robert Mugabe! I'm sure they're paying for his inuagural shin-dig where he turns all of Zimbabwe into a parade float. Let's see the scoreboard on the Chinese, shall we? Destroying the ecology of their own nation and polluting the world, floating Bush's phoney-baloney economic "policy" with cheap money, Darfur, human rights, Darfur, human rights, Wal Mart, happy plosts with greedy pseudo-patriotic outsourcing American CEOs, Darfur, buying off NBC and just about everyone else for the Olympics, draining natural resources There Will Be Blood style, and well...did I say human rights, Darfur yet? Now this. Magazines from Foreign Policy to The Economist have been chronicling this neo-colonial push in Africa, and if you think U.S. bankers, CEOs, hedge fund scumbags are willing puppets, imagine the garden variety African president-for-life or newly inaugurated guerilla movement leader now head of state? It's time we stop giving China a free ride. While we degrade ourselves in Iraq and in bellicose nonsense with mullahs eslewhere, they take over the world. You think the Mugabes out there don't see that?

Hump Day Humping...

CELTICS. Okay, I knew their owner Wyc Grousbeck well in college (and briefly in law school). He was one of the biggest scrotumheads in the world, but I'm happy for him today...and Allen, Garnett & Co. Yes, still think Stern is as big a gangster as Bud Selig and as much a manipulative corporate robot as the tools who control the NFL...and the NBA is subject to the ratings fix more often than not...but in these bloated playoffs comes a message which I hope is not lost on kids out there hoping to emulate the Kobes, LeBrons, Iversons etc. And not just in basketball, but in all endeavors. The one-man show, megastar, plump with corporate endorsements, unfettered by matters of image and discrimination which we regular folk face, all about the dollar bills, all about the trappings and such...was yoked, embarrassed by defense, by a team. Metaphor & allegory thusly submitted...
ERIC HOLDER. This election is forcing whitefolks to stand and deliver. Come up with all kinds of excuses, from Michelle Obama's term papers 20 years ago and cookie recipes to Barack's name to what--Eric Holder? Eric Holder's a tool--this I know, folks! But if being a tool is the threshold for evil than everyone in or associated with the Bush Administration other than Christy Whitman (who was forced out at EPA for having too much sense) should be exiled to Antarctica.
I think Barack's people need to accept, if they haven't already, that their "movement" view of American politics is a bullshit as the GOP's more mythologic-based creed. ALL politics is tribal. Ironic to use that word which white morons have used on us. Rent/re-watch Scorsese's "Gangs of New York" (with Daniel Day-Lewis's best performance in my mind, and Leo DiCaprio). That vision of New York, 1846-1863 is America. Come on, whitefolks...you had it in ya all along. Rent/re-watch another favorite flick of mine-- "Gladiator" with Russell Crowe. Check out the first five minutes, including this charming scene taken directly from the final script draft:
MAXIMUS: They say no. [tracking: a white and bloodied horse rides within the ranks of the Roman soldiers. A barbarian comes to the forefront of the German lines, waving the horseman's head, tossing it into the mud....]
BARBARIAN: Ihr seid verfluchte hunde! (You are damned dogs!)[As the barbarian calls out his cry, his mangy band of barbarians emerge from the forest, shaking and waving their spears and shields, ready to fight.]
NASCAR dads, perhaps? Hahahaha. Could be--clamouring for off shore drilling which they know in a portion of their skulls is silly and will only enrich the rich, and won't do shit about gas prices, but hey, programmed nonetheless to clamour for clamouring's sake, because some sinister tribe must be threatening the order and counter-clamouring. So stop whining about things being unfair to Holder and get your own Maximus...
THE INCREDIBLE HULK FLICK. I'm not Al Sharpton. Clearly. But damn--has anyone asked why they saw the need to usher The Hulk and Abomination uptown to destroy all of Harlem from Malcolm X Blvd to Old Broadway? Baltimore scion Ed Norton is a Harlem afficianado like all pseudo-hip white boys, but lawd have mercy!
Look, gentrification is one thing, but this is Donald Trump-ery. How many condos can Big Green One make way for? And did they really need to pound the Apollo Theatre to bricks and pebbles? Hey, even "Cloverfield" didn't cross 110th. If he had, and turned right--you'd have found pieces of him in a couple of tons of beans and rice, or wrapped in a few million empanadas. hehehehe

I'm jus' sayin'...

OK. Let me get this straight. The US Supreme Court gives George Bush the White House. That is not opinion, that is a fact. Eight years later, the Guantanamo case doesn't go his way, and he tells them--a more conservative bunch even than in 2000--to go to hell. Isn't that bad form...a tad unsporting...churlish? Or in other words--shows he and his rightwing cadre to be the assholes we've always known them to be?
It gets better. This clown who's head of the quasi fascist Washington Legal Foundation issued a statement condemning the decision and proclaiming that the "blood of innocent Americans" will somehow stain it. Hmm. Due process, which set us apart from our enemies=bad. OK, apart from that don't you just hate it when these shrieking fools start to sound just like the opposite side of the coin from the Jihadists and "demon Arabs" they claim our out to destroy our way of life and take our women? Whenever I hear "The blood of..." it's a dead giveway. I'm jus'sayin'.
Oh, by the way, the NBA Championship is fixed. They need the ratings...