As we approach the holidays it is worthwhile to note that No Child Left behind is being applied to Santa’s elves. Yes, Santa’s elves. Blaming incompetent elves for world poverty and and not being able to compete with Chinese elves, is part of the movie — ‘Waiting For Super-elves” and of course part of the rhetoric […]
We have all been there at one time or another. You are watching a TV show, sitting in your favorite chair. Maybe it was not as exciting as it promised to be. Inevitably, however, you fall asleep. Eventually you wake up and an entirely different show is displayed as you attempt to reorient yourself. As […]
I’m not waiting for Superman. Waiting for Superman, Davis Guggenheim’s new educational film is presently receiving a media blitz. Is big business behind its success?
Racism, White Supremacy & Hollywood “There’s nothing that the Black man could use to earn Burn Hollywood Burn” – Chuck D, Ice Cube, Big Daddy Kane By Solomon (Academy Awards) season has come and gone and so, too, with it another year of Hollywood subsidized racist imagery. Hollywood, like many American mainstream institutions, has the […]
Change is coming, it is in the papers daily. Yesterday I saw an ad that took up an entire page. It showed two pictures of the Himalayas. One was taken at the turn of the twentieth century and the other was fairly recent. It showed how almost all the ice is gone. That ice supplies […]
I am getting close to crossing the line, I think. Yesterday I saw a fellow in his mid 60’s who was wearing a startlingly red polo shirt with “Deloitte & Touche” embroidered on it. I asked if his shirt came with a bonus? As he got into his brand new, candy apple red Corvette convertible, […]
Michael Collins The Supreme Court of the United States will soon announce a major decision on our lightly controlled system of campaign funding. Will it retain some limitations on corporate influence or will the court blow the lid off and cause a perpetual flood of unrestricted corporate contributions? An additional outcome may surprise and shock […]