Book Expo America--in full effect at the Javits Center

Wish I was there but family matters squat upon me like the iconic gothic "Night-mare" painting of old. The publishing and retail bookselling biz ain't quite dead yet. Of course, having Sarah Ferguson or Barbara Streisand pitching their latest crap draws folks in, along with free books from graphic novels in the DC or Marvel areas, to slews of coffee table tomes and tschotchky. Black folks are there, oh yeah--BEA is like our internecine reunion and gladhanding fest, though other apparently better-heeled ethnic groups don't seem to put the same emphasis on this.

I'm following the Tweets and bit.ly links, and hope something dramatic pops off. In the mean time, back to work. Three unfinished projects. Michaelangelo or Dickens I am not.

Memorial Day Rant to Fox News & Tea Party

Interesting how the children, and now grandchildren, of folk who'd have not a pot to piss in were in not for the WPA, GI Bill, FHA, farm subsidies, interstate hwy and military base construction/contracting, mining on federal land, repeal of Glass-Steagall, federal student loan guarantees...even Medicare & Social Security...complain how "Big Government" is ruining America?

Interesting how so many of WWII's "Greatest Generation" were responsible for racist terror, murder, intrasigence, intolerance not just in the South but across this nation? Pretty much mimmicking the red scares, race riots/lynching and paranoia of their hero doughboy fathers from WWI. And the children/grandchildren now deal with the aftermath.

Interesting how this same group of heroes were responsible for birthing the mass-produced-throw-away-drill baby drill culture and economy that is sucking this ole Earth dry and nastying it up? And the children/grandchildren now deal with the aftermath.

Just interesting, that's all...

Kwame Kilpatrick--Don't drop the soap

Y tu mama tambien...

I'm sure there are young men in Detroit who think you are now a member of the prison tog club and thus held in even higher esteem.

Brandeis U study-Black Family Wealth Tanks, and it's not due to Bling

And read more here for the details.

The Wrinkled White Face of Ethnic Cleansing: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer

Well, is it sun damage? Jealousy that black don't crack, brown don't frown? And of course in typical wingnut fashion, this, the state that vehemently opposed an MLK Holiday, is trying to misuse MLK's legacy regarding ethnic studies, to wit, "It's just like the old South, and it's long past time that we prohibited it."
What lies and insouciance. I'll leave ignorance and blindness to the rank and file whitefolk. The politicians, however, know exactly what they are doing.

Time for the technocrats in the White House to wake the hell up. But then again, let these crackers have their last hurrah. They will be the minority soon, and it scares the hellout of them. I wonder why?

Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane et al: Keep these Negroes behind bars...

...and black culture, the black polity might rebound. Some Norplant in certain areas of Chicago, given the mindless violence there, might be more effective in the long run than cops, the National Guard, social programs & mentoring, youth groups, blah blah blah...

And here's a cartoon to punctuate it. Enjoy.

And Feliz Cinco de Mayo, you Arizona GOP Hypocrits!

Times Square Hapless Bomber went to Southeastern University in DC

First these clowns at Howard, now this idiot. Wannabees are attending DC area HBCUs. A correlation between dumbasses and who HBCU's let in for the cash? Mrs Nat, an HU alumna, would kill me...

The Harvard Law Student who's the Smartest White Chick since Ann Coulter

Et Voila. The Harvard girl. My pal the Field Negro says she'll likely be doing legal commentary on Fox News soon. Ha! Or Palin's Attorney General?

I still can't believe these little immigrants invented zero, or these Africans and Chinese pioneered medicine, surgery and pharmacology as we know it while whites were still dying of funk. Makes no sense, do it, Steph?

Louisiana Oil Spill--look at the bright side

First, we're all getting more AMERICAN-born gasoline so we can sit in traffic on the Beltway as we drive to buy a carton of milk. At least we keep the road contractors busy.

Second, oil companies are good for the economy, and now can spend money like grains of sand to keep those damn treehuggers in line.

Third, I wish there's massive drilling off the Delaware coast, just like in the Gulf. The Nats dad has a house there where we all vacation, and black goo holds the sandcastles together better...even makes them waterproof!

MIA, Born Free, Youtube censorship and Red Heads

Here's what I had to say about MIA's Born Free:

Life Imitates Art: Adopted Kid returned to Russia, Movie "Orphan"

Read it here. The adopted went beserk, the mom sent him back. Remember the thriller "Orphan?" Gotta watch those Eastern European adoptions. Does the Russian Mafia run these transactions? That's the rumour.

I asked a friend about adopting any number of African American or Latino babies who live within a stone's throw of Nat's abode. She said there aren't a "number." Here we make it easy for any Precious or Juno to keep their babies no matter the cost to the teen mom's future or the kids' welfare. And speaking of welfare, ADFC costs. But the decision is, keep these babies with their baby-like moms, and push "marriage" to the low life or equally young sperm-provider as the solution to all social ills. The result? This surfiet of minority babies in the hood is just an urban legend. Hence, white folks who want a rug rat feel they must fly to China, Brazil or...well...you know the rest of the story.

D.C. Metro: No Fare Hikes! Crash it, then a do-over as a Regional Authority

Metro's troubles are legend. Whether it's raising blood pressures, or murdering its passengers outright. Only hick tourists think it's wonderous, most feeding off the archaic notion that the negative benchmark is the NYC Subway. News flash--I'll take the unheated, uncooled, tiled tunnels and screech of the 1 and 9 lines in Brooklyn than the crap I've experienced since 1976. Perhaps it's yet another in the legion of metaphors for Washington as a orphan child of the republic since 1800, a prison to everything from parochialism to racism, as compared with the grand capitals of the rest of the world.

Just as Metro's Board considers yet more fare hikes, the notorious Red Line suffers another bit of drama today: a fire.

Fare hikes, a higher subsidy from Maryland, DC or newly Confederate Va. isn't going to work. The only answer is to start over, create a Regional Transportation Authority with an individual taxing functionality for a collection of counties and towns in the D-M-V. Bust up MARC and VRE and fold that in, just like the Port Authority of NY/NJ. The buses, too. All of them.

Of course that sounds like too much "change." Even wingnut McDonnell of Ol' Virginny needs some government largesse and fiefs to convey.

Wikileaks video. In Iraq, Truth dies

I'm a member of the National Press Club and saw the "reveal." Members were aghast but apparently that didn't trickle up to their bosses...

Sarah Palin Finds an Uncle Tom in Florida: Allen West

...and true to all Toms, he not only didn't know she'd endorsed him, but shined a hearty hidy-ho in thanks. As my grandfather used to say: "Christopher, even the Confederacy had its coons."

See it here, on the Grio.com