General Interest

Editor’s Note: Sugar Blue, born James Whiting and a son of Harlem, NYC, is an accomplished harmonica player, singer and songwriter. Most people are familiar with his unforgettable harmonica work on the Rolling Stones’ song “Miss You,” [...]

The polls are looking grim for the Democrats this election. What many thought was a ridiculous notion just might come to pass this Tuesday; that the Republicans will gain a majority in the House of Representatives, only 2 years removed from their 8 year-long [...]

Everything old is new again! Like fashions and disco music, some Americans have revived one of our old political parties, the Know Nothing Party, later renamed the Native American Party and then simply the American Party. It’s been renamed yet again, [...]

With the best of intentions, we still screw up. We all want to build a better world, to live in peace, prosperity and brotherhood and leave our children a world where they can flourish. We may have different ideas of how to go about that, but any attempt to [...]

September 8th, 2010, 8:30 AM, a sunny late summer day, a good day to be born. The Yanks are playing an early one this afternoon. Have to see what I can do about letting the babies hear the broadcast of the game, get them used to it. Off to Staten Island, [...]

As usual during economic hardships, the right wing is going after the unions again, trying to convince America that the organizations most responsible for gaining for every American worker an 8 hour work day, overtime pay, safety regulations, workers’ [...]

So, Glen Beck had his faux civil rights rally, gathering the faithful on America’s Lawn on the promenade in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. 1000,000 Tea Party and Glen Beck fans showed up. In other words, 100,000 morons. On the 47th [...]

Now that people are accustomed to communicating with one another almost exclusively via electronic devices, even within the same room, it makes some sort of perverted sense that Internet companies are now negotiating with Little League Baseball to install web [...]

So this dopey mosque issue near the site of the World Trade Center atrocity has the whole friggin’ country up in arms now, even people who never stepped foot in New York City, long-distance carpetbaggers claiming “hallowed ground” [...]

Red State, Blue State, one-two-three! Facebook has become the new battleground in the ideological war between normal people and the neo-Neanderthals attempting to erase the Bill of Rights. The media-created issue over a proposed mosque in New York City has [...]