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Random Musings

Well, this is the second time that I’ve written this post. The electricity has gone out in our house approximately 5 times today. I’m surprised my computer hasn’t gotten fried. For those of you who are keeping up with my blog (the three or four… Read more

Obama, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Dangerous Negro

Today in the Huffington Post there’s an article saying that Rupert Murdoch called Obama “dangerous”: “I think Barack Obama would describe himself as a pragmatic leftist but he’s not an extremist,” Murdoch said. “I think he sees himself as a… Read more

Obama and Generation Jones

So, I’ve never heard of Generation Jones — the generation between the Boomers and Gen X — until recently. Generation Jones is presumably named such because they (we) are a generation of Jonesers. We yearn for things. This, I identify with. We were… Read more

New Links

While surfing for references to Sandra Day O’Connor’s remarks about Bush as a dictator, I found this excellent site called Hysterical Blackness. The author is a black, queer, feminist academic. This led me to the Black Commentator, which I haven’t… Read more

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