WNYC’s ‘Its A Free Country’ blogsite has my post-State of the Union thoughts. As if you give a fux for politricks.
Shouts to Brian Lehrer and the whole WNYC crew. Chea!
Archive for the ‘Politricks’ Category
Get Legislation, Or Die Tryin’…
Friday, January 21st, 2011
Unfortunately For Haiti, The Doctor Is In…
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
Only one short year ago Haiti was rocked by a natural disaster hardly seen in this hemisphere. The 2010 earthquake left a country already on the brink of economic ruin in absolute tatters. The news that Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier has returned to the country from an imposed exile could be the tipping point for utter social anarchy.
Political and economic forces from outside the country continue to play the Haitian people like so much as marionettes on a string. Duvalier’s return is like the illegimate child who comes the funeral wake to see what money has been left for him. Duvalier is not in Haiti for the Haitian people and the people’s memories aren’t keen enough to know this.
It’s A Free Country…
Friday, January 14th, 2011
THE REAL LIFE CRAZY EYES KILLA…
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Dude is definitely crazy, but that begs the question why no one wanted to act on this fact until the murder spree?
When a Black kid gets the crazy tag in kindergarten he is then put into the special ed classes that stymie his development until he drops out of school. After that he gets sent to prison for the rest of his teenage years for selling marijuana and then returns to prison early in his adulthood for felony larceny or other drug convictions.
The Black kid doesn’t have the support network that would allow him to shoot a Congresswoman from point blank range like Jared Lee Loughner had. The Black kid is institutionalized way sooner than this kid and the chances are the Black kid is way saner. At every turn of Jared Lee Loughner’s development when it was obvious that the dude needed help people just passed him off to his parents.
The argument shouldn’t be about which talking head incited this unstable kid to commit mass murder. The discussion needs to be about who saw that crazy look in this boy’s eyes and then looked away in the hopes that someone else would deal with the problem.