fiction and musings from a gay black dude with delusions above his station
Because of the greed of a few, we will all suffer. Republicans, punch drunk on hubris, will gore the middle class and exterminate the poor to feed the rich. Muffy will get her fourth yacht. Buffy will get his third Swiss villa. The middle class will get crumbs. The poor will get nothing. Throughout the…
Do we still have a functioning democracy in this country? Sadly, the evidence points to no. I submit the following as Exhibit A to support this answer: Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders posted this photo on Facebook. With his post, he added the following: This page is from the tax bill Senate Republicans rewrote and passed…
Members of the 1% have been pitching hissy fits lately over perceived slights and injustices. One recently declared that there is a “war” against the 1% and then compared the outrage over the rich to the Nazi anti-Jewish pogrom Kristallnacht. He later apologized, sort of. Last weekend, Think Progress highlighted comments by Bayer CEO Marijn…
Apple lays an egg this fiscal quarter, so says the stock market. After all, it only earned $8.8 billion, a mere 21% increase over last quarter and a 22% increase over this time last year. I mean, what’s up with that? And check this out. From April to June, Apple only shipped 26 million iPhones….
