The Gloves Come Off: John McCain’s Combustible Campaign as Sarah Palin Fights Ethics Charges

Granted four years ago, I wasn’t blogging, didn’t have cable and wasn’t this attentive to the presidential campaign or at least, my memory doesn’t say so, but we’ve kinda passed the proverbial silly season in presidential campaign and entered unknown territory. From voter registration frauds being alleged and Obama being tied to ACORN and still […]

Obama Youth: To Step or Not to Step

Does anyone remember that story you read in grammar school called “The Wave” when it came to that point in World History (right after they just skipped over ALLLLL of African history) when they’d talk about Nazi’s and WWII and the Holocaust. Yeah, I just came out an African American Church History class as I […]

Happy Birthday To Me!

Yeah, this is very self-serving. This is my first birthday celebrated on the blog. Yup, the big ole TWO-FOUR. Look how far I’ve come. (see above pic.) October 15th right around the corner celebrates my one year of having this blog as well. And perhaps at this rate, the 200th blog post will be […]

Live Blogging of the Presidential Debates 2008, Round Two

I am grievously sorry “my friends” but I will not be able to do a play-by-play like I did for the last two debates to a death in my academic family. My computer more or less gave up the ghost. I’m waiting on a power cord, so hopefully that’ll be in sometime this week and […]

Keeping it Truthfully Radical

I’m actually quite shocked no one has ever questioned me on my signature on the bottom of every post “Keep it uppity and keep it truthfully radical.” Naturally everyone knows where the “uppity” part comes from, but no one asked about the “truthfully radical” part. There was a clip, pulled from YouTube last time I […]

A Sunday Morning Realization: A Bankrupt Prosperity Gospel

I would be remiss as a seminarian student with a blog dedicated to all topics to not at least point you all to Jonathan Walton and his piece that he dropped onto Religion Dispatches entitled “Prosperity Preachers: Where Are They Now?” It goes without saying that the economic boom 90s and financial overextensions of the new millennium […]

My Insulted Intelligence: Palin and The Vice Presidential Debates Debrief

Seriously, my intelligence was insulted by That Thang that was Governor Sarah “The Moose” Palin last night. I mean, if nothing else, she didn’t answer many of the questions, but rather gave GOP talking points. I don’t care what any Palin or Sen. John McCain supporter has to say about the questions from Gwen Ifill, […]

(What Was At The Time) Live Blogging of the Vice-Presidential Debates

Yup, it didn’t happen. I didn’t have the happy harmony of cable and an internet signal at the same time last night. Hopefully next week, I’ll be able to have that combination once again. Below is my Live consciouness stream of how I was watching the debates last night. 9:06 So far so good. […]

Caught Between Bailouts and Debates: Where Does The Black Community Stand?

As if I really know. HAHAHAHA! Seriously, we’ve heard nothing but the angry black man rantings of Roland Martin on CNN juxtaposed to the whispers of the grey haired David Gergen and for what it’s worth, even Martin hasn’t really mentioned, a lot in opinion, about how is this affecting the black community. Yes, I’m […]

Blog This!: Maher Snaps on White Welfare Pimps

Yeah, I haven’t been up on it since this weekend. But between Biblical Greek and playing for late-night services and rehearsals, blogging is somewhat taking a back seat. But the following clip was sent by a FAITHFUL reader, who I know in person, we’ll just call her Uppity Prof for now, and this is to […]

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