(ThyBlackMan.com) I neither expected sparks nor extreme surprises as President-elect Joe Biden begin to announce his Cabinet. I did expect diversity, and we’ve seen it. But I didn’t expect the number of Obama-era retreads to be included in this Cabinet. As I write this in mid-December, I can hardly contain ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Now comes the moment of truth. The time has come when each of us will have to make a personal decision about whether to take the COVID-19 vaccine or not. Following months of the most unimageable experience of living in the midst of a global pandemic, the promise of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After trying and failing at everything under the sun to get President Elect Joe Biden’s win scrubbed, Trump had one last desperate card to play, both involved the electoral college. One was to try to get the legislatures in the swing states that gave their electoral votes to Biden ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Many years ago, there was an Emperor who was so very fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on them. He did not trouble about his soldiers… He only went out when he had the chance to show off his new clothes. He had a different ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A new president takes office with the sense of possibility that comes with a new dawn. This is particularly true for Joe Biden, taking office after the divisive turmoil of Donald Trump’s years in office. Joe Biden inherits truly fearsome troubles — among them the spiking pandemic, the collapsing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some accuse Donald Trump supporters of manufacturing allegations of voter fraud out of whole cloth and resisting the presidential election results in response to their supposed cult leader’s wishes. As usual, President Donald Trump is the villain and his supporters are complicit. But again, the Trump-hating critics are wrong. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is going to be a hard Christmas for many Americans. The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is soaring. The virus is spreading faster than ever. Families and small business owners whose incomes have been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic are being hurt by the U.S. Senate’s refusal ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here’s a recent news item that may appear isolated, but which provides a very clear object lesson in the character of those on the left. In a sense, it’s also queerly germane to the holiday season – assuming we’re still allowed to use the word “queerly” in this context. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) That title could easily be Joe Biden’s legacy as he ends the fourth year of his presidency. Many prognosticators see the issues facing President Joe Biden as insoluble conundrums. Domestically Biden faces the issues, of Covid-19, a recalcitrant ex-president who will no doubt use whatever political power he has ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is as yet no known, easily accessible cure for COVID-19. Over the past year, lots of old and new drugs and supplements — Ivermectin, azithromycin, Remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc, aspirin, Pepcid and others — have shown at least some anecdotal value in ameliorating the effects ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Have you ever seen a pig dance a jig? I don’t mean to be rude, but the one-minute press conference that the current President called to celebrate the stock market clearing the 30,000 mark was the equivalent of a pig dancing a gig. He had been under seclusion for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The year 2020 brought renewed global focus to issues of social justice in America. Racial disparities and inequities highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic to the killings of George Floyd and so many other of Black and Brown Americans at the hands of police officers have all contributed to the ...