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  • NOOSES AND BULLWHIPS: PRE-ELECTION MADNESS

    Keith Josef Adkins | Oct 31, 2008 09:20 AM
    Although Obama will take reign in four days, I'm afraid the horrible cancer called disgusting and pathetic racist behavior is trying to make a one last aggressive attempt to stay amok. First, there were the four Christian students at George Fox University... More
  • TRICK OR TREAT: PALIN IN A NOOSE

    Keith Josef Adkins | Oct 29, 2008 01:35 PM
    photo credit: Welt Online So a couple of West Hollywood, California residents decided it would be in good, political taste to dress up a mannequin like Sarah Palin and hang it from a noose for Halloween . Some of their neighbors are fine with it. In fact,... More
  • THE BATTLE AGAINST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

    Keith Josef Adkins | Oct 27, 2008 09:02 AM
    California is on fire right now with the battle over Proposition 8 , which would ban same-sex marriage. Conservatives are afraid that securing rights for gays would throw this country into an immoral cesspool. Same-sex activists believe marriage rights... More
  • The McCain Supporter and Her Scarlet B

    Keith Josef Adkins | Oct 24, 2008 08:43 AM
    photo credit: sarahsarmy.blogspot.com WARNING: The following post contains the TONE of one black man who's exhausted with white women blaming black men for ANYTHING So a Pittsburgh woman claims a 6'4" dark-skinned black man with shiny shoes carved a "B"... More
  • PROPOSITION K: PROSTITUTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY

    Keith Josef Adkins | Oct 22, 2008 08:15 AM
    So it looks like the City by the Bay—aka San Fran—will eliminate the power of police to go after prostitutes. That's right. If San Fran residents vote yes on Proposition K next month, the city will save 11 million dollars from prostitution arrests, have... More
  • FARRAKHAN AND HIS SO-CALLED NEW AWARENESS

    Keith Josef Adkins | Oct 20, 2008 10:18 AM
    photo credit: Chicago Sun-Times So Minister Farrakhan is seeking a new beginning . An all-inclusive, all-faith, all-color beginning. This is after years, and I mean, years, of his fiery speeches that burned a hole in white privilege, Judaism, history,... More
  • An Open Letter To The Republican Nitwit With The Foodstamp

    Keith Josef Adkins | Oct 17, 2008 12:39 PM
  • MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR CUTS AIDS FUNDING

    Keith Josef Adkins | Oct 16, 2008 10:48 AM
    Massuchusetts Governor Deval Patrick Photo Credit: BostonHerald.com So let me sit down and understand this: Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts is axing 1000 jobs from his state and slicing 1 billion dollars from his state's budget? To help maintain... More
  • TOWELHEAD: A MOVIE THAT CUTS DEEP INTO RACE AND SEXUALITY

    Keith Josef Adkins | Oct 15, 2008 11:30 AM
    Towelhead. Photo Credit: Warner Bros Entertainment For the last few weeks several people have insisted I check out Alan Ball 's screen adaptation of Alicia Erian 's novel " Towelhead ". The suburban drama that examines the sexualizing of a 13 year-old... More
  • BLINDNESS: A FILM THAT SHOWS HOW UGLY THE SEEING CAN BE

    Keith Josef Adkins | Oct 13, 2008 09:17 AM
    Last night I had a chance to see Blindness , the screen adaptation of Jose Saramago 's "plague" novel directed by City of God visionary Fernando Meirelles . With the recent criticism and protesting from the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) I was... More
  • THE ECONOMIC BAIL-OUT AND OUR DOOMED HEALTH

    Keith Josef Adkins | Oct 8, 2008 10:12 AM
    A few days ago the New York Times published an article about this country's future health by blogger Tara Parker-Pope. In the article Parker-Pope discusses the impact a recession will have on this country's murder rate, suicide rate, heart disease and... More
  • O.J. IS GOING TO THE PEN - FINALLY

    Keith Josef Adkins | Oct 6, 2008 12:04 PM
    O.J. Simpson has been convicted in Las Vegas for robbery and that's a shame. I'll admit: I thought O.J. was guilty of murdering his wife and her alleged coke-pal Ron Goldman. And if he didn't do it, I was certain he hired some other person or persons... More
  • TYLER PERRY GOES TO JAIL: THE TRUE STORY

    Keith Josef Adkins | Oct 3, 2008 03:03 PM
    photo credit Bestweekever.com So here's the scoop: I was all ready to throw ink about Palin and her "history of energy" answer to every question last night and I was so ready to explain how I sat on my friend's sofa and experienced what I call "internal... More
  • SCREEN ACTORS GUILD: A STRIKE IS-A COMING

    Keith Josef Adkins | Oct 2, 2008 05:19 PM
    photo credit: Reuters It's bad enough the entertainment industry is still recovering from last year's Writers Guild Strike , and trust me, whenever I'm reminded of the three months I marched in a circle in cold, wind, and a Nor'Easter for substantial... More
  • PALIN READS EVERYTHING: BEWARE!

    Keith Josef Adkins | Oct 1, 2008 11:39 AM
    CBS Evening News' Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin what newspapers and magazines she read, you know, to get an understanding of what shapes her worldview, or Alaskan view, something. But Mrs. Palin went-a spinning . She answered the question with a lot... More