I Don't Like Mondays

The end of the rainbow rarely looks as advertised.

Hey, The Root has just discovered "The Next Episode" by Dr. Dre was actually written and recorded by The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - who was blonde and Scottish. Life's disappointments never end.

Remind me again why I don’t live in France? Easy - forget the bedbugs: I used to have a girlfriend who was considering opening a restaurant over there. I warned her not to, but she decided my admonitions were just sour grapes, and attempted to do so anyway. Until, one day, she calls me long-distance, bawling her eyes out: "I have faced so many problems, and paid so many bribes. It's just insane!" I reminded her of my warning not to try and open a restaurant. She replied "Restaurant? I'm still trying to get an apartment!" 

She now has a successful business (above) in Austin, Texas.

And TMR will believe a Fox Host Dropped Receipts On The GOP Over The Claim Of Hillary Clinton's 'Threat To Democracy' when the way lies of omission work become a mystery.

 

Liars: I Got Your "Free Country" Right Here (No I Don't)

Since America's whites beheaded blacks for centuries this seemed a good fit

I was with a good friend, just last night, who was explaining why he doesn't drive a car - and it all came down to white people:

"The 9 Things Black People Can’t Do"

It's like the U.S. is some weird version of Saudi Arabia, which - just like American whites - the Saudis also find to be fair, fine, and dandy,...

Watching Red (Fade To Black)

Thomas Jefferson: Radical and Racist

In the multiracial American future Jefferson will not be thought of as the Sage of Monticello. His flaws are beyond redemption. The sound you hear is the crashing of a reputation

ADDED - From The Root:

  Thomas Jefferson Was a Racist, Period

I Black, You Black, We Blackity-Black-Black-Black, Black

Since I felt forced into that little series on blackness, I'm trying to figure out how to elegantly get out of it (homeopathy!) but post-Trayvon, the stream of stories keep it hittin' - here's where I sit on 'em:

I don't give a fuck about Paula Deen or Riley Cooper because I live in America, and know how we talk, and don't think Americans should be punished for it. You want to reprimand an employee at work, fine. But firing somebody? Fuck you. 

This shit ain't that bad, if it's bad at all.

Everybody knows I don't like Oprah, but right now conservatives are wrongly "playing gotcha" with her because she said millions of blacks were lynched when, by the strict definition of the term, there were merely thousands. I guess it's somewhat to their credit that - even after watching her fall for every NewAge character and concoction ever invented - no one considered the possibility Oprah's uneducated. One of those blacks, like Obama, who's allowed to slide by for whatever quality white's appreciate seeing in them. That's what I see. 

I see a whole lot more, too, but I'm typing with one finger, so fuck it.

I see The Root says Spike Lee compared Tyler Perry's work to Amos n Andy. 

In light of that, I don't think The Root, Spike Lee, or Tyler Perry are worthy of two sentences.

I think a "Dummies" version of the Trayvon Martin trial should be produced, and replayed everywhere, until the Black Muslims are begging George Zimmerman to come home.

Charlie Rangel is a liar, a crook, a troublemaker, and a fool. 

And he's not alone.

And finally, all Don Lemon said is what anybody's grandmother would say. So he's gay, big deal. 

Calling him a "Professional Assassin” seems a bit much,...