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Song of the Day – ‘Breathe Again’

  Toni showed up in my playlist today, which took me back to my trip to Dallas at the start of football season, where I took five years off the end of my life eating a Tri-Tip sandwich with an extra side of fried okra, and ended up humming this all the way back to […]

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Well done SNL.

  So… I could go into my soapbox again this Sunday with another reminder of how, historically, one of the One Percent’s most effective tactics in turning working class whites against their own interest is fanning the ‘Other’ tag (which right now obviously includes Mexicans and Muslims), even though from a captalist, every day life […]

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Song of the Day – ‘Killing Me Softly’

  Every time I hear this, I feel conflicted about the gender reversal.  Growing up, we called this ‘caking’ (a few of you are know are chuckling…) Still, having said all that, I passes my remake test (has to be different enough from the original to stand on its own). It’s no Lauryn Hill, but […]

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‘Batkid Begins’

  Gordon: “I never cared who you were.” The Batman: “And you were right.” Gordon: “But shouldn’t the people know who saved them?” The Batman: “A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy’s shoulders to let him know the world hadn’t […]

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‘The Central Park Five’

  Here’s another ‘must see’ if it’s somehow slipped through the cracks (as it had for me until this weekend…) ‘The Central Park Five’ is another great documentary by Ken Burns.  This one focuses on the case of the five black and brown teenagers in New York City who were tried and convicted of assaulting […]