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Gaslighting Another Black Community For Fun & Profit

Scratch beneath any story in Coconut Grove and you’ll discover the issue of race lurking. We’ll get to that eventually, but this true fable — with a twist on the race issue — starts with the approval of a Wawa gas station in the City of Coral Gables. So what? Cities approve gas stations all the time. However, this approval didn’t have any public consultation with the community, nor public hearings, both of which would normally have taken place. And, that’s ...

Gal Gadot’s Nationality Is Why ‘Wonder Woman’ Is Being Boycotted

The Not Now Silly Newsroom will occasionally republish stories that originated elsewhere. Gal Gadot’s Nationality Is Why ‘Wonder Woman’ Is Being Boycotted “Wonder Woman” and the film’s star, Gal Gadot, have been delivered a ...

A Reasoned Defense of the Word “Nigger”

Let’s get something straight off the top: There is no more vile a word in the English language than “nigger”. Full stop. However, let’s agree — at the very least — ...

The Guess Who Live ► Monday Musical Appreciation

On this day 45 years ago The Guess Who set up their equipment on the stage in Seattle, Washington, and performed the music that would eventually be released as “Live ...

Beatles, Elvis, Dylan & Johnny Cash ► A Mega Monday Musical Appreciation.

When it’s Monday Musical Appreciation time, I consult several Day in Musical History sites, choose a topic, and write the post — all before most of my readers are awake. I ...

Pérez Prado ► Monday Musical Appreciation

On this day in 1955: Pérez Prado had a #1 hit with “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White”. While almost no one knows his name today, or the name of his ...

Looking Ed Henry of Fox “News” In The Eye

The dumbing down of ‘Merka — followed by the election of Emperor Trump — could not have happened without the Fox “News” Channel’s mendacity, which I’ve been exposing for the ...

Top Cat ► Saturday Morning Cartoons

Top Cat is one of the many cartoons produced by Hanna-Barbera, just like Tom & Jerry and The Flintstones, covered elsewhere in these pages. Top Cat launched a year after The ...

The Post-Truth Twitterer Emperor

I think we can all agree, no matter what side of the political spectrum, that everything Emperor Trump learned about communication, he learned from Twitter. And, he learned it well: On Twitter ...

Lee “Scratch” Perry ► Monday Musical Appreciation

Celebrating his 81st birthday today is the Grandfather of Reggae and the father of Dub Reggae, Rainford Hugh Perry, aka Lee “Scratch” Perry. Back in the days before the word Reggae ...

Hair Today; Gone Tomorrow

This video is dedicated to — Oh, hell. Just watch. I miss Pops every day. At the same time I was fighting the The Hair Wars, I lived 4 houses south of David ...

The Beginning of the End of McCarthyism ► Throwback Thursday

On this date in 1954 brave journalists at CBS began curing ‘Merka from the cancer of McCarthyism. Millions of words have been written about McCarthyism and I won’t even begin to ...

This Is Not Watergate! This Is Treason!!!

Emperor Trump sent out a series of deranged tweets this morning that not only upped the ante, but — IRONY ALERT! — just ensured never-ending investigations up his colon all ...

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