Cogito Ergo

The big news this week is the Australian baseball player that was killed by three teenaged boys that were bored and decided that throwing their lives away would be a good way to get the ole heart rate up.   I have some real problems with the way this story is getting covered in the news.   But, before I get to that, I was pretty shocked that they actually succeeded.   People that fucking dumb don’t usually accomplish a goal, no matter how nefarious.   I mean, seriously, one of them posted online that it was time to take some “life’s”.   Not only does he not know the plural of “life”, what the fuck was the apostrophe for? Anyway, this isn’t a blog about dumb ass teenagers, this is about the media.   So, let’s dive in. First off, since when is it okay to show the pictures and names of minors on the internet and on TV?   I know the justice system likes to arbitrarily decide when they will or will not charge someone as a minor but here in the rea...

What happened to the news? I remember the days when my parents would take over the TV and force me to either go outside and play or suffer the torture of watching something on TV that was actually informative. That show that they used to watch was called “the news”. The show would tell you about stuff that was actually going on in other places. It would often say what it meant to us back home. I couldn’t stand that boring ass shit. It took some time, but after a fine liberal arts education, I began to enjoy informative programming that had no butt kickings and only the slightest amounts cleavage. I began to understand that there was power in knowing stuff.   Fast forward to today and the news still comes on… sort of.   For some reason, the big wig TV executives decided that the news should be entertaining, which is fine, accept when entertainment actually takes the place of information transmission.   The news today has all sorts of ro...

Being the lame that I am, I know a lot of super hot Black women that would never ever give me the draws.   Crazy enough, these same women often raise the question as to why they can’t find a good man. Now, the smartass answer is “Because you didn’t give me no ass before I met my wife.”   But, that is unfair.   I gots no game and usually ended up in the friend zone because being a friend is what I’m good at.   Getting a woman naked i not.  The fact that I know so many single and hot Black women does make me wonder what the fuck is going on in the Black community that only the women that don’t have their shit together seem to have men all over them. I have a few theories. 1:   Internalized racism I know that some of you are wondering how I’m gonna blame this on the White man…   Here’s how.   You see, people tend to seek relationships with those that they think that they can actually get and Black men get told that they ain’t shit the...