"Threatening"

"The California medical board is threatening to revoke the license of Dr. William Edwin Gray III for selling homeopathic sound files over the Internet that he claims—without evidence or reason—can cure a variety of ailments, including life-threatening infections such as Ebola, SARS, swine flu, malaria, typhoid, and cholera."

Bringing It Home (When Bill Cosby No Longer Has One)

Who agreed with Bill Cosby politically and follows the "teachings" of a guy with a 14 year old wife?

All I have to look at is two Pew Research Center polls, one saying:

“Fewer than half of Americans say the country has made substantial progress towards racial equality”

And another saying:

 “Most Americans give relatively low marks to police departments around the country for holding officers accountable for misconduct, using the appropriate amount of force, and treating racial and ethnic groups equally,” 

And I get confused what the Right's arguing over.

To Bill Cosby this is a brown photo, but it looks like Michael Brown to me

Dr. King specifically mentioned “the unspeakable horrors of police brutality” as something blacks must live with - and something we’d stopped being satisfied with - in his “I Have A Dream” speech.

Wash, rinse, repeat: Bill Cosby's guide to success

And yet, no matter what “unspeakable horrors” they know blacks are living with, there is still an expectation to - let’s say your family’s being torn apart by the larger culture - endure it with 1963's nobel stoicism; an almost-inhuman calm, for (this is rich) the sake of the majority’s shaky nerves while they further assess us for possible signs of dignity.

If Bill Cosby jumped off a cliff, would you do it, too?

The same folk who now knows they just freaked-the-fuck-out and called the first black president an “incompetent” because he wouldn’t lose his head over a single American death from ebola from Africa.

Misunderstandings aren't as common when Bill Cosby's putting his hands on you

They also got the Benghazi thing wrong - while loudly criticizing Obama for (what else?) “incompetence.”

You gotta believe it'll all be fine in the end,...Bill Cosby's been orchestrating

They, unnecessarily, made even that black man’s life infinitely more difficult, but - looking at the upside - they also got to be heard offering uninformed solutions to a non-existent dilemma, so yeah, let's hear it again for life in my never-ending NewAge America.

Visualizing the Left and Right, together, in a single physical form - after Bill Cosby 

Racially, we’re really "making progress" now:

And TMR's coming totally full-circle,...

Bill Cosby And A Great And Glorious Culture Of Crap

Ta-Nehisi Coates takes us - himself included - to the woodshed:

"It is hard to believe that Bill Cosby is a serial rapist because the belief doesn't just indict Cosby, it indicts us. It damns us for drawing intimate conclusions about people based on pudding-pop commercials and popular TV shows."

That's America.

But, if not pudding-pop commercials and popular TV shows, what are we supposed to base our beliefs on?

"Glenn Beck says relatively little about how he was diagnosed with and treated for adrenal fatigue. The treatment included electrical stimulation, hormonal supplements, and being whirled around in some sort of gyroscope."

That sounds crazy, but it's better than ebola treatment, right?

"Homeopathy could have cured Ebola if the World Health Organisation had not stepped in to prevent a trial, according to members of a group who travelled to Liberia hoping to try out remedies including rattlesnake venom and the aphrodisiac Spanish Fly."

That's the second time Spanish Fly has come up this week - are we going back in time?

"Amy Strickland, an assistant principal at Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk, retweeted a photo of several interracial couples with the caption, 'Every white girl's father’s worst nightmare.' ...Strickland was named teacher of the year last year."

As she should've, my friends, as she should've - and it's all as respectable as it can get,...

Distractions, Restrictions (And Something To Live For)

Jake Tapper was on CNN, reporting on the fear being generated by a rumour of ebola, maybe being weaponized by terrorists.

Graphic of an enlarged ebola virus with a member of ISIS.

We've only had one death from ebola.

Jake Tapper brought on a White House expert.

The White House expert said the ebola rumor was "highly likely" a hoax, and weaponizing ebola is almost impossible.

Jake Tapper rattled on for another three minutes anyway.

He didn't play Roosevelt's "nothing to fear but fear itself" clip.

But how could he, when he knows 1 in 9 on death row are innocent, and we've got more Americans in prison than China?

Jake Tapper's a professional,....

Forget What Whites Say: Jim Crow Now In Full-Effect

"I taught my black kids that their elite upbringing would protect them from discrimination. I was wrong."

"‘Negro’ is an acceptable term for black soldiers, U.S. Army says"

"The problem with The Walking Dead’s mindless zombie hordes"

"Minor hockey coach fired for posting pro-Nazi content on Facebook"

"Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley joke about Ebola at Country Music Awards"

"Ferguson's Toxic Police Department"

"20 Ways To Tell You’re A Republican"

What Drives Conservative Nutjobs Crazy? Themselves

Of course, they're also craven political operators - willing to say anything before an election - so there's also that,...

Lie Away: The Fight Isn't Over Until The Struggle Stops

Forcing the poor to pay more for food - because you can afford to - is apparently sexy

Well, it appears everyone in the western world doesn't get away with being an asshat, just Whole Foods supporters:

"MP demoted after suggesting homeopathy use in Ebola fight"

Being out of touch, apparently, connects some whites to each other

It's so weird, how some people have to face the consequences for being wrong, and others - even law professors! - are allowed to spout idiocy and get away clean. To pay no price, either in popularity or credibility, and then can even punish those who point it out, being as cruel and deceitful as any common criminal one could encounter in a dark alley.

"The pursuit of happiness" was invented by a racist, a rapist, and slave trader - go for it!

And what's the punishment for? Well, speaking of course, but also for being enraged at the injustice. That's what those protecting evil see as the real crime - growing angry, or discombobulated, or sad:

"Grief is just so scary. Our grief and rage just terrify us. If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That’s what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn’t get dinner. 

We stuffed scary feelings down, and they made us insane. I think it is pretty universal, all this repression leading to violence and fundamentalism and self-loathing and addiction."

Whites haven't done anything to blacks they didn't do to each other first

As long as the effects are hitting someone else - someone they can claim is being politically correct, or a Democrat, or whatever other totem they need - they don't care. They smile (as they're always smiling) look at their bank accounts, and make the calculation public deception is worth it. 

Being kept outside the law is how it's made

And it just might be. For a while.

Twisting MLK's words, into white's nightmare, was the ultimate betrayal

"In the fight between you and the world, bet on the world."

— Frank Zappa

Things can happen when you least expect it

Sorry, Frankie, but I still ain't betting against myself (or me and mine) over anything - or anyone:

The biggest truth - still to be revealed - is how small the enemy is

We're all existing in blackness,...

Lying Ferguson Police Department Admits To,....Lying

"It's time to panic" alright

How strange is it that, no matter how dishonest the police are behaving, whites insist on not trusting their accusers:

"St. Louis county police instituted a no-fly zone over the Ferguson protests solely to prevent news helicopters from covering the events, recorded conversations obtained by the AP reveal."

I repeat: cameras are now the cops worst enemy:

And one of the few friends blacks have,....

Being Wrong (Has Never Stopped Whites From Lying)

Bill O'Reilly: "So where am I going wrong here, Tavis?" 

Tavis Smiley: "A few places. Not enough time to go into all the places you are wrong,..."

I've been saying, ever since Ann Althouse's insane ebola post, that she is now a conspiracy theory nutcase.

But The Atlantic is also reminding me that's not a hinderance to career success for white people:

”When Conspiracy Theories Don't Fit the Media Narrative”

White people don't care about being right - or doing wrong.

They just want their way.

And their way is to control the narrative.

Notice, Bill O'Reilly is totally wrong, but he - not someone who knows what he's talking about - gets to be the big shot on TV.

Ann Althouse's ebola scaremongering?

It's just brought her closer to the neanderthals.

She doesn't care how it looks - or is.

Few whites do, because ethics and intelligence aren't respected.

That's why a quack, like Dr. Oz, still has a TV show - but a well-respected doctor can't and doesn't. 

America's a nation of snake oil salesmen, relying on a shitty education system to ply their trade.

What did Ann's fellow blogging law professor, Glenn Reynolds, say?

The best thing about being a law professor is they get to just say shit, without caring if it's correct.

Those two must teach the most fascinating classes,...