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  • The Blame Game Has Already Started: The Myth of the Depressed Black Turnout

    Apparently, the fate of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, if not the American republic, falls on the shoulders of African-American voters. This week, CNN rang the alarm bells with an article stating that the black vote was declining, with 24 million early votes cast. Politico followed suit with a story about how weak African-American turnout in Florida…

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  • FBI Director James Comey Manufactures an October Surprise for Hillary Clinton

    America had such nice plans for the weekend. Most people were getting ready for some World Series baseball, looking through Party City for that last slutty Ninja Turtle costume, maybe even spending a few hours in line for early voting. The last thing most Americans expected this Friday afternoon was a shameless unprofessional and utterly…

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  • Donald Trump Runs for Dictator in Chief

    The fun way to write about Wednesday night’s presidential debate would be to focus on the ridiculous number of hashtags and memes that were produced by caustic exchanges between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Trump’s constant attack that Clinton is a #NastyWoman will no doubt spawn pro-Clinton T-shirts and a spike in iTunes sales for…

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  • 8 Shows That Will Be on ‘Trump TV’ if Donald Trump Loses the Election

    The American voter finally has confirmation of what we were thinking all along: Donald Trump doesn’t really want to be president. All the evidence is there: He’s run a Dumpster fire of a campaign, and even though he managed to blow through 16 mealymouthed Republicans in the primaries while completely taking command of the Republican…

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  • Is Colin Kaepernick Hurting NFL Ratings? We’ll Find Out This Sunday

    Who is the wokest player in the NFL? Who has the No. 1-selling jersey in the NFL without starting one game all season? Who has the flyest sports Afro since Julius “Dr. J” Irving? Who started a protest that exposed half of the on-air NFL analysts for the closet racists that they are? Just talking…

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  • For Colored Folk Who Have Considered Suicide When This Election Was Too Much

    There is not a lot of joy this election season. Everyone knows that we probably won’t live to see another ridiculously upbeat campaign season like 2008, when it was literally “cool” to go out and vote for then-Sen. Barack Obama, but 2016 has been an emotional letdown nonetheless. The choice between Hillary Clinton, with her…

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  • The #TrumpTape Debate: Either Hillary Clinton Wins the Debate or America Has Lost Its Way

    Donald Trump is in serious trouble with his own party heading into the crucial town hall debate against Hillary Clinton on Sunday night. Not because he denies climate change, threatens to nuke half the world, won’t share his finances, most likely didn’t pay taxes for 20 years, stiffed hundreds of employees, offers a safe haven…

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  • In VP Debate, Mike Pence Goes on 90-Minute Shaggy ‘It Wasn’t Me’ Defense

    Unless you’re one of those people whose Pandora/iTunes/Tidal service features no music that dropped before “Trap Queen,” you might remember a pop-reggae song called “It Wasn’t Me” from one-hit wonder and Rick Fox look-alike Shaggy. The song notes Shaggy’s tale of woe as he is busted by his girlfriend for “creepin’ with the girl next…

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  • Criming While White: Why Would Trump Change a Tax System That Made Him Rich?

    The 2016 election’s first manufactured “October surprise” is a full-length investigative story from the New York Times about Donald Trump’s taxes. More specifically, the fact that after running up almost a billion dollars in losses and debts in 1995, Trump has likely not paid any taxes in almost 20 years. This in and of itself…

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  • Clinton Won, Trump Lost and 3 Other Takeaways From Monday Night’s Debate

    Every media analyst and historian in America believes that Monday night’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will turn out to be the most-watched debate in American history, with close to 100 million people tuning in over its 90 minutes. Given that President Barack Obama won a second term in 2012 with about 65…

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