Serenity… an expedition

One puzzling question I’ve been seeing, reading various poliblogs, goes something like – where is the far Left in this country (U.S.)?
My immediate thought – well, it’s right here, in many on and offline communities of color, in Labor, in some feminism, in some liberalism. In other words, pretty much where it’s always [...]

When did the History Channel become the Armageddon Channel?

Which is also undone, for that matter.
Looking around my house this afternoon I noticed that my fridge is freshly cleaned but my kitchen is a mess; all the laundry is washed and dried, but not put away; my mom is all washed and in bed, but her bathroom is only partly cleaned; cat is fed, [...]

I’ve been looking at quotations. Phrases and thoughts disconnected from their original settings and placed in isolation – or rather, a sea of isolation as they space with thousands and thousands of other fragments of related, but not connecting, phrases. How do they decide what goes in, I wonder.
Most sources quoted are, of course, from [...]

I don’t know why. Also, I don’t know if it’s an important topic in most Black circles and I just never really paid attention, or if it’s just that there is a whole different dynamic to the issue due to our history and so -while the caring is there – it doesn’t manifest itself in [...]