(Thanks to Ricky Martin’s song, “She Bangs,” for inspiring this post’s title.) A few days ago I watched the online video of last Thursday’s (July 29) ABC daytime talk show, “The View,” during which President Barack Obama chatted up the […]
I have written before on my blog site about President Barack Obama’s tepid leadership, fearful and delayed administrative action, even clueless constitutional idealism. In making these arguments I (unfortunately) might seem to share rhetorical space with conservatives (“conservative” is a […]
It’s become official: pragmatically, reasonably, thoughtfully, cautiously, carefully, open-minded, with consensus and coalition-building and mature foresight apparent above all, our former candidate, now president, of hope and fundamental change of the way things are done in Washington and the way […]
I didn’t watch the NCAA basketball tourney very closely on Saturday or Sunday. I wasn’t surprised by Kansas State’s convincing win over BYU, actually feeling good about my revised prediction (KSU by 10; actually winning by 12). Maybe if I […]
Maybe I’m being unfair, too hard on him, expecting too much for a man of color, the first to be the President of a nation that continues to be in denial about its history of institutionalized racial inequality. (Tea Party […]
In a recent blog I wrote critically about the fearful tendencies I experienced growing up in a conservative white community as a biracial child. I drew the parallel of my own experience to current U.S. president Obama’s seeming need to […]