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John Hughes has died.  The 59 year-old writer/director who introduced my life to classics like Weird Science, The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, died of a heart attack while taking a morning walk in NYC.  When I first heard the news I didn’t know what to feel.  Or should I say, admit what…

I blogged earlier today about George Sodini and the LA Fitness slayings. Even though I’m still disturbed by the idea of a gunman walking into a gym and killing innocent women, I thought I was finished meditating on mass-murder for the day.  Now Jill Tubman over at Jack & Jill Politics has brought something else…

Keith Josef Adkins is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and social commentator.

I don’t know whether to laugh my butt off or weep foolishly.  Senator John McCain and Representative Peter King have finally drafted a letter to President Obama on the matter of race and boxing.  McCain, a longtime boxing advocate, wants Obama to issue a posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight Champion…

Former Celtics player and free agent Stephon “Starbury” Marbury is on TV.  You heard right.  Starbury has pulled off his shirt, bleached his teeth and joined the rising popularity of Justin tv.  And yes, it’s a bit like watching a train wreck and a provocative single-camera born again Christian ministry.  Starbury has basically set up…

Mayor Michael Bloomberg of NYC has a solution to the city’s homeless problem.  He wants to provide a one-way ticket out.  He wants to send those worrisome, burdensome people who are victims of unaffordable housing, mental illness and the like, out of the city by any means necessary.  I’m talking train, plane or bus and…

While Obama, Gates and Crowley prepare to knock back a brewsky and solve American race relations, Governor Schwarzenegger is out in Cali acting like a complete Republican, right-wing, lost-his-mind, somebody-slap-him-into-the-middle-of-next-week gangster.  I understand my home away from home state of California is under some mammoth budgetary pressure, but Schwarzenegger’s recent veto and budget cuts look…

The news is out:  Michael Jackson’s on-site physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, administered the drug Propofol that killed the King of Pop.  So now what?  Most of us figured this out the day of Michael’s death anyway.  I don’t know about you, but I really don’t care.  I know that may sound insensitive or unAmerican [you…

It’s official.  Skip Gates wants to move on from the drama of last week’s arrest.  And honestly, so do I.  Gates is thankful for Obama’s controversial support, but he realizes it’s not about him.  It’s about something much larger.  Black men under siege.  Or for many, the overwrought illusion that black men are under siege. …

What are the Massachusetts cops talking about? What are these American naysayers afraid to admit?  The Massachusetts Police Association actually said the only thing stupid in the Gates incident was Obama’s comment that the Cambridge Police’s tactics were stupid.  Folks, it’s not rocket science or even quantum physics.  Racial profiling exists.  Whether one is middle-class…