(ThyBlackMan.com)   We measure time by years, but why not call them Christmases? (Doesn’t each year end with one?) Christmas is the joy at the passage of time, New Years the sadness at time’s demise. But whether we call it the feast of the Midwinter Solistice, Christmas, New Years or Kwanzaa, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Matt’s Damon’s petty, tasteless, and insipid knock of President Obama as gutless again got plenty of press mention. He used the more street, colloquial term to symbolize the president’s supposed cowardice but we’ll leave it at “gutless.” The almost irresistible temptation is to chalk this up to the star ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul continues to hold a slight lead over rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich in Iowa. The Texas congressman finished with 21 percent of likely Iowa caucus voters support in the latest American Research Group poll  released Friday. Mitt Romney finished with 20 percent, followed closely ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Every year around this time, I start to reflect on life, sometimes my own. I think about the past, the present and the future. I think about things that could have happened, things that shouldn’t have happened, things that probably will happen and also the stuff that definitely won’t ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) At its best, The Boondocks comic strip turned a critical and hilarious eye on African-American culture, tackling taboo subjects from a variety of viewpoints that allowed readers to draw their own conclusions. A recurring theme around this time of year for the comic was a discussion of Kwanzaa, the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Things got worse for GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul when his GOP presidential rival Newt Gingrich called Ron Paul on the carpet for purported racially inflammatory utterances he made in the 1990s in his officially approved newsletters, “Ron Paul’s Political Report” and “Ron Paul’s Freedom Report,” which brought in a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) My father recently told me something that blew me away. All the game I have, all I’ve learned, came mostly from my old man. He gave me the game since I was a kid, yet he still surprises me from time to time. What he basically said was: “You ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m not big on giving gifts at Christmas, Kwanzaa or anything else.  The holiday season has become so distorted that our children now think that Jesus was born at Wal-Mart.  I believe in giving gifts of love and upliftment (which kinda makes my kids hate me sometimes).  So, in ...