What books will you never forget?

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By Tracy-Trips   As much as I love my fiction, the books that have truly stayed with me over the years are the non-fictions. A few are books that have made me think and completely changed my view on the world. A few are just about ate up people which I looooooove. No matter what…I [...]

Sports n Ish with Lurk

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> Author’s Note: I’m only finna talk about two games this week. Actually, I’m only finna talk about one game this week. It was that or catch a case. You’ll understand as you read on. (Oh, and I mention a prominent philosopher at the end. So, you get to learn something too. See that? Bonus [...]

The Final Debate – your thoughts?

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Last night was the end of the Debate battles between President Obama and Gov Shitt Romney and the focus was to be on Foreign policy. From what the pundits and everyone cept for Fox news fans had to say, The President clearly won the debate not just with points, but on clear decisive confidence and [...]

Chernanigans – Guess the Price!

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When I’m bored I like to look at outrageously expensive things and wonder; “Really? This is what people buy when money ain’t a thing?”. Mittens Romnobot has been a daily reminder of my own wretched, lowly middle classdom and I wonder; if I were rich like him what kind of crap would I buy? So [...]

What are your favourite book SERIES…..

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OHN welcomes Tracy Trips as a new contributor  who shall cover all things literary as she is a big book nerd.   I got issues.  YEAH I KNOW we all knew that.  One of my favorite issues is my addiction to books.   To be more specific, book series.  I cannot tell you the geek orgasms [...]

Mayor robs and steals for his people. The Robin Hood Mayor of Spain.

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By Fubsy – Juan Manuel Sanchez Gordillo is a regional lawmaker and mayor of the tiny farming town of Marinaleda in Andalusia. He is the talk of Spain after staging robberies at supermarkets and giving stolen groceries to the poor. He said he wants to draw attention to the human face of Spain‘s economic mess – [...]

How to identify lesbians

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From guest writer: Zuly This post is not going to be about what you think it’s going to be about. I figured I’d tell you that upfront so I don’t have anyone cussing me out in the comments. A couple of weeks ago this article ran on News One: Speaking at a campaign office opening [...]

Unrequited Love: Love that is not returned or reciprocated.

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I’ve been tinkering with this topic for a while, but last night it hit me hard and I’m struggling. Has your heart, mind, body and soul ever ached for a person who is so completely out of reach that you just want reach inside your head and punch your brain til it goes to sleep? [...]

From guest writer Choc: Stop Feeding At The Trough!!

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Have you ever complained / lamented about the lack of positive portrayals of African American women in the media (i.e. reality TV shows)? Are you sick of seeing African American women portrayed as loud, obtuse, bitter, hateful, nefarious gold-digging, fame-seeking whores whose decision making and life choices have proven to be questionable at best and [...]

Weekend Wrap-Up!

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Hey hey hey – guess who’s back, son! Let’s see what did I do this weekend. I’m not too sure if most of you know, but I started this lil online dating thing and me and this one guy have been kicking it kind of often. Friday after work I went by his place for [...]

SSC: The modern tax we are all fighting for a chance to pay!

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Hi all.  Pam here. So have you ran out and paid your voluntary tax this week? No? What are you waiting for? Why do you delay? Aren’t you hoping for the chance? The opportunity? The possibility to win those millions and millions of dollars? You got to go out there and join the masses and [...]

Men and Domestic Violence

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From contributing writer: Twinki If you were on Twitter last night (Beth note: since I’m late posting this I think this happened Monday night/Tuesday morning), you would have known that Pilar Sanders and her homegirl “just unlocked the Ike Turner badge on Four Square” on Deion. Apparently, during their bitter divorce, Deion and Pilar are [...]

SSC: The new world economy runs on the resource that you already own.

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KonspiracyCorportKarl invited back again, to spew vile venomous truth on the lies packaged by the capitalistic corporate overlords. My Rich Dad said, “Somewhere along the way, people became more desirous of security and have paid the price by selling their freedom. You may have noticed that schools today focus primarily on job security rather than [...]

SSC: …society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade…

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“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” –Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886 Why is there hardly an improvement in Africa’s welfare although [...]

SSC: Let’s talk about that d**k Rush Limbaugh

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Hi everyone! My name is Patricia, but you all can call me Pat. I’ve lurked in the shadows for some time and I’m honored to be the guest this week and share with you today. Rush Limbaugh has been in the media of late regarding his comments of Sandra Fluke a few weeks ago. You [...]

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