Warning Label and Obligatory Disclaimers I never write anything with the specific intention to offend or unnerve the reader. But when you are committed to candor, it is bound to happen occasionally. The truth is that sometimes when people’s feelings get hurt, their feelings needed to be hurt in order for them to really hear…

Before We Begin It would be uncool of me if I did not confess up front that this list is not entirely fair. Making a blunt statement that a movie was responsible for the misplaced focus and misdirected energy of an entire nation of people sounds like barbershop and backyard bar-b-que talk more…

People of sound judgment and good conscience should brace themselves. We’ve got a bitter pill to swallow, and I don’t want us to choke on it. That bitter pill is that Stacy Abrams might actually save us all by losing her bid to be the next governor of Georgia. To…

I fully understand that all antisemitism is fucked up. In every context, it is a rancid reflection of bigotry, stupidity, ignorance or evil. Whether we are grappling with anti-Semitic doctrine or sentiment, it invariably springs forth from one of these four factors or some confusing concoction thereof. Whatever pseudo-historical references…

I love writing and engaging on this platform. It helps keep me sane and chilled out in a world that is crazy and on fire far too much of the time. But life came at me fast and hard from three directions in the last few weeks and sucked the…

Watching Herschel Walker scratch and shuffle his way to the United States Senate is a sickening spectacle. Based on what I saw in the Georgia Senatorial Debate, it could absolutely happen. I had to cool my heels for a couple days after watching the ridiculousness of a brain damaged senior…

I don’t mean to suggest that your life is fucked up; not any more than mine is or any of the rest of us. What I am saying is that we’re living through a weird time right now and it is very easy to feel like you’re losing when everything…

General consensus is extremely difficult to come by these days. And that difficulty will be multiplied many times over if people sniff out that you are laying the precepts for an argument that interrogates capitalism. But those of us who are inclined to conduct that interrogation, must continue to do…

And another one bites the dust. This time, it was Nia Long’s longtime love and Boston Celtics head coach Ime Udoka. We have seen this story before, just without the eye-popping visuals of a Hollywood starlet and a guy who looks like he would have his choice of women even…