We wrestle not against flesh and blood but agains powers and principalities and rulers or darkness in high places. That is a scripture from Ephesians 6:12 and I think it’s apropos given the turn that this election has taken. A little while back on July 28th, 2008 actor Jon Voight wrote a very incendiary and […]
Read more "What We’re Up Against: FoxNews, Fool Fest 2008 Media Award"This is the story that brought me out of hiding. Before I get to the meat of this story, let me just update my readers. First I realized not posting everyday reall leads to a significant drop in readership, or else it just means that a lot of my consistent readers live in Louisiana and […]
Read more "UNN Breaking News: The Search for Palin’s Baby Daddy Continues"I’ll admit that I’ve kind of been baffled by gender roles. Like, I never understood why I couldn’t hit girls, especially if she hit me first. I never understood why a man was supposed to walk on the street side with a woman–especially when it seemed Mama Uppity frustratingly was the only woman who seemed […]
Read more "Put Your Hat Back On!"Raving Black Lunatic wrote a while back about swagger in regards to Barack Obama and this whole idea of him coming off as overconfident, and arrogant and dare I say–uppity. But, I debated after hearing yesterday’s sermon from Rev. Otis Moss III as to whether or not I wanted to write about swagger, and I […]
Read more "Don’t Hate on My Swagger"First of all, congratulations to Michael Phelps. I don’t know what it must feel like to have such a mountaintop moment. I’ve never experienced such sheer euphoria in my life. Those normal moments such as graduations usually feel as such, but both my high school and college graduations were shattered by extenuating circumstances, both of […]
Read more "What Happens When the Unreachable is Reached?"Every major city has it’s resident black media hound, Atlanta has Rev. Markel Hutchins of Kathryn Johnson fame. This person is often out of the black religious tradition, not always, but often they are. They often seek change and they attempt to do so through running for an elected office, be it city council, state […]
Read more "When Boycotting Goes Wrong"Maybe it’s just the particular churches I’ve visted, but by in large, for some reason, the young organ players, usually don’t do a lot of soloing. Not saying they can’t, I fully believe these kats are gifted to do so, but for whatever reason church service doesn’t allow them to do so. Ran across the […]
Read more "For Those Who Remember…the Organ Solos at the Old Church"The following may be perceived as heretical and definitely liberal Christianity. Conservative sensibilities may be offended by the following. If you don’t know that you’re conservative, if you read the following and thoughts of me, the writer, going to hell, me being excommunicated from the church, ridden out on a rail or thinking anything that […]
Read more "The Insulation of The Church: Us vs. Them"We all have seen those commercials with children looking lost, with flies lighting on them, distended stomachs from severe starvation; playing or standing on piles of rubbish and garbage and outright sewage. Most of us turn away, including yours truly, because it’s really hard and painful to watch as most of us sit in the […]
Read more "Sponsoring a Dream"Today, I had a little change in my pocket so I finally drove up and down the main drag here in Gaithersburg looking for a barber. I saw something that had “platinum” and “barber” in the same name and I figured that it was a black one. So, I got my haircut, experienced my first […]
Read more "A ‘Premature Autopsy’"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 