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Let’s get this out of the way first: I love “lofi hip hop.” It’s on all the damn time at my abode. That said, I also love third-wave coffee shops in “up-and-coming” neighborhoods. Recently, dope-ass producer Jah Freedom posed a question on social media, “Is lofi hip hop just gentrified boom-bap?” It was meant as…
Slaves ate for survival, not for nutrition. So when African Americans went ahead and consumed soul food for centuries on end, health in the black community became a fatal epidemic. In 2020 half of the black population is obese, according to recent CDC reports. And African American women have the highest rates of obesity compared…
The GOP has just launched its latest offensive in an all-out war against the United States Postal Service. After being accused of slowing down the mail intentionally, Trump’s latest kleptocrat and postmaster general Louis DeJoy committed his own Friday Night Massacre on August 7th, firing several top USPS executives and reshuffling more than two dozen…
Let’s establish one thing: the cannabis business is racist. There, I said it. Behind all the happy horseshit in press releases, promises to be more mindful and diverse, the cannabis industry is rife with institutional racism that’s going to take more than lip service to make right. Racist History of Marijuana The plant itself has…
Sports are back! The NBA, MLB, WNBA all returned to their respective “arenas” after a long layoff due to the COVID 19 pandemic. To the chagrin of the “shut up and dribble” crowd, the athletes of these sports stand with black lives matter. Now before you get all “BLM is a Marxist organization!” on me,…
Game show pimp and self admitted one-percenter, Chuck Woolery made some news today by earning an “atta-boy” retweet from Donald Trump. It was a real love connection. A true Member’s Only man meeting a Debbie Gibson wanna-be moment. The Wheel of Fortune flunky recently went on a Twitter rant about the big COVID-19 conspiracy. Essentially…
British socialite and alleged massive-pedophile-ring-enabler Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested on July 2nd on charges of enticement of minors, sex trafficking and perjury, among others. Maxwell is alleged to be convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein’s right-hand assistant and central to the horrors of Epstein Island. The internet immediately revisited and revised the “Epstein didn’t kill himself”…
As I sit here on July 4, 2020 I’m not feeling it. It’s just another Saturday in my book. We could have invited our friends and family over to responsibly celebrate this day in the era of the novel Coronavirus, but why? What’s there to celebrate when not only are our black and brown people…
Heroin use has gotten rural, and whiter after authorities leaned hard to cut down on prescription opiates making their way to the streets. In no place has this rung more true than Ulster County. Woodstock, NY has a history it can’t escape. Forty-seven years after the last tab of brown acid was consumed in Bethel, this…
Yesterday I woke to my coffee and had a premonition: “I don’t want to open the news today.” It was one thing, wasn’t it, when social media was just noodle lunches and puppies, and the day’s news didn’t threaten to devastate. I had a rare, pleasant evening, and didn’t want to break the spell. But…
