BOLD like a Leopard

If you've been reading the Washington Post, New York Times, LA Times, Atlantic , and other establishment media outlets, it's time you stepped away from the table. How many things do they have to say, how many wrong predictions do you have to make, before you finally realize that it's all been a smokescreen; a shiny object to distract you from their own complicity in a system that's rotten to the core with corruption. They are like a restaurant that promises a tasty dessert cake and instead brings you a plate with a wad of frosting every five minutes.  So what's the score now? They said that a "fringe candidate" could not win a major party nomination What they really meant was that they needed the Republicans to screw their voters and disqualify Donald Trump like the Democrats did to Bernie Sanders. They said that without corporate money and heavy ad campaigns a successful presidential campaign was impossible. What they really meant was that they ...

Elle writer Sady Doyle's Harvey Weinstein commentary reveals a woman more reminiscent of the white female upper class that Weinstein manipulated than of the type of journalist that eventually exposed him and has begun to hold him accountable. Author's note: My cousin from west of Utica made a comment that as a New York State resident he feels that it's unfair to lump his home region in with the topic here. So to clarify, I mean New York City. A few days ago I addressed the issue of the cavalier  progressive liberal entertainment, media, and social sphere and its relationship to how they judge current events especially with respect to criminal justice. The Harvey Weinstein saga and the explosion of disgusting details about the licentious and coercive sexual and professional behavior that he displayed should have inspired a real thinking moment for the people closest to it, and I will grant that in many cases it probably has. But among those that are the pens, the micro...

Who are Harvey Weinstein's cavaliers? Noble luminaries of the entertainment world like Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels. A Canadian, Michaels responded to questions regarding a lack of proper address for the Weinstein scandal with the dismissive remark " It's a New York thing ".  During the English Civil War the supporters of the establishment and King Charles I were known for their brash and flamboyant manners as they trampled on the commonfolk while trying to preserve the monarchy. They were subsequently branded as "cavaliers" with the explanation being as such:  " Several sorts of malignant Men, who were about the King; some whereof, under the name of Cavaliers , without having respect to the Laws of the Land, or any fear either of God or Man, were ready to commit all manner of Outrage and Violence. 1642  Petition Lords & Com.  17 June in Rushw. Coll. III. (1721)  " Coming from noted "Rape Culture" in...

A tax rebel fighting a collector during Shays' Rebellion. Opposition to central government precedes the presidency itself in American history. (Newsela) Since taking office, President Trump has made it an almost hourly ritual to check in with who's the latest person with whom he's come to loggerheads. I've had periodic arguments with a coworker whose main criticism has been that his disgraceful behaviour fails to "bring the country together". Yesterday I made the the point that there is no such thing as that. We have a nation where there will always be a natural strain of rebels, right or wrong.  Dissent is innate to American politics Most Americans are not aware that the "filibuster" was originally a term for freebooter American adventurers that broke with official policy in the 1850s to invade Central American states like Nicaragua . Most Americans are not aware that in the early days of the United States the union was almost undone by Shay...

Now there's an image you won't see anymore (Boston Globe). This article is in response to my friend Alex Ioannidis' piece in tribute to the recently announced retired Sen. Robert Phillips Corker, Jr. (R-TN).  If not for the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal, the continuing meltdown over the NFL anthem protests, and the chronic saga with North Korea, the main issue this past weekend would have probably been the blow-up between President Donald Trump and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee may have crept into the top of the news feed. As it so happens that person happens to be a member of his own party and had traditionally been identified with the right wing of the GOP. If you have seen my material before, you can probably imagine that those details don't mean much to me. Bob Corker in my mind represents about as much to do with conservative principles as. . . well, Donald Trump. Trump and Corker have traded insults this weekend, but let's exam...