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Trying to understand colonialism through the lens of modern racial theory is an ill-advised task. Skip the ‘collective responsibility’ this Thanksgiving and pass the pie.

Broken Racial Theory, Spanish Culpability, & Why We Should Just Let People Enjoy Thanksgiving There is not a day on the calendar that does not mark an atrocity that one group of humans visited upon another. There is not a square mile on this planet that is not soaked in the blood that our species so readily spills. Yet there is a day off from all horrors of the outside world and that day is....

The successful conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd is no vindication of the system that created Derek Chauvin… it is merely an indication that the system is still capable of meeting the entry-level standards of applying justice.

A Good Start

Another year, another SXSW notch on the belt. As usual most of the films your humble scribe watched were above average but natch some quality films getting press are the ones I missed.

SXSW Online 2021 Short Takes What was truly missed though was the vibe of being amongst literally thousands of like-minded viewers. The thrill of seeing a true star like Paul Williams or Tom Skerritt or Emily Mortimer or Jason Schwartzman in the hallway of a convention hotel and briefly grabbing their ear was non-existent.

The net end result of Republican political and policy bad faith is going to be worsened border control and public health crises.

Bad Faith Equivalences The bad faith equivalence in question is declaring the border crossing crisis the Biden administration is attempting to repair as “no different” from the racist policies of the previous administration that caused the crisis in the first place, or -- worse yet -- using this bad faith false equiva...

There’s a feeling about the SXSW experience that cannot be translated by online screenings or seminars.

SXSW Online 2021 Rewrites Rules of Game Starting Tuesday, March 16 and running through the week until Saturday March 20 attendees can take delight in a variety of happening events from keynote speeches featuring such superlative personalities as Willie Nelson (Wednesday) or Stacey Abrams (Tuesday) to livestream performances from accomplis...

Covid has changed the landscape of how movies are made.

Film: ‘Coming 2 America’ – Interview with Composer Jermaine Stegall “For the longest time John Williams was the model that I aspired to. I saw “E. T.” and I saw “Raiders of the Lost Ark” at a drive-in. After high school I entered college as a saxophone performance major,” says composer Jermaine Stegall. “I realized very quickly that I was highly distra...

The best movie you could watch right now is the one you haven’t heard of.

Film: Everything You Know is Wrong “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” the latest work from Curtis, is readily available on Youtube as well as BBC iPlayer, the latter of which is a BBC platform with streaming capability showcasing existing Beeb programing and original content.

Attempts at blaming these outages on emerging “green technologies” like wind turbines are crass and transparent efforts at deflection.

ERCOT: It Was Never About ‘Reliability’ (or Wind Turbines) In the perfect storm of the first ‘Winter Storm Warning’ issued in the history of the state of Texas, few things are as damning as the flaccid incompetence of the state agency bearing the misleading name “Electrical Reliability Council of Texas”, AKA ERCOT. But few things as well were any le...

This country already has a “Center Right” party– It’s called the Democratic Party.

Right Idea, Wrong Name– Perfect Timing On Friday February 5, over a hundred former elected and high-level appointees of Republican administrations -- including that of indicted extortionist and insurrectionist Donald Trump -- participated in a Zoom call to discuss the formation of a breakaway political party, which they are tentatively n...

So was Hampton dangerous and did his existence warrant a massacre? White authority always eradicates insurrection in any form especially when the perceived threat is a different color.

The Judas Factor “Judas and the Black Messiah” pulls no punches as far as that controversy is concerned. The characters of Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya) and informant O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield) are finely tuned with each having scenes that make the audience alternately support and despise their motives.

Unfortunately for those at the top who’ve benefited immensely from speculative bubbles, speculative bubbles don’t create a vibrant middle class–they push what’s left of the middle class off a cliff.

Debt and the Demise of the Middle Class Unfortunately for those at the top who've benefited immensely from speculative bubbles, speculative bubbles don't create a vibrant middle class--they push what's left of the middle class off a cliff.