I once shook Dick Cheney’s hand. It was at an event for his wife’s book and he was surrounded by his grandchildren. I shook his cold death hand. My heart shrunk 8 sizes that day.

In law school I once asked for a $50 emergency loan for food, the woman working in the office declined and rich-splained to me that the budget laid out in the expected costs was not a ‘luxury’ budget. I was starting my Spring Semester and my loan funds weren’t yet available. Technically, in your first year you aren’t…

That was a rabbit hole I never thought I would willingly go down. Thanks for finding the choice ones.

What is the most strange thing about this phenomenon is those who are most afraid of the government are those most likely to defend excessive police tactics and push aggressively for military action overseas.

Time to give Jelani his own smartphone and put that Gorilla Glass to the test.

I love that she tries to stay positive (aka in the running for VP no matter who wins) by keep saying ‘on the other hand.’ She is a national treasure.

Hello fellow white people. We have got to call Mr. Trump on his racism, his sexism. Silence is tacit endorsement. No one who says “Go Back to X” to an American citizen of Latin descent doesn’t understand that he is conjuring up anti-Latin bias. I don’t endorse Megyn Kelly’s political slant but we have to see that his…

Mine was years ago via Florida State University Law School discussing "Overseas Foreign Investment"—really fascinating but I ending up not being a lawyer and starting a career in books. Now it seems the UWI-Cave Hill Law School works with Washburn University and they discuss Comparative Constitutional Law. And it…

It was a long time ago, I want to be back there.

Coolio—yeah, I was thinking more of the Catholic Carnival sense. I studied at a summer program at Cave Hill and I loved that it overlapped with the lead-up. So many parties, so many tents on the weekends prior, so much happiness and heat. I grew up in Miami so the summer, sweaty, near naked street parties all make me…

Spent a summer in Barbados during Crop Over season. The great thing is that it isn't Carnival/Carnaval except for the whinin' down Spring Garden and it is a great party. It literally celebrates the sugar cane crop being over—no religious stuff. The King o' de' Crop and The Queen o' de' Crop are the people who…

But where are the FEATHERS!!!??

I loved Lawton Chiles explanation that he too was bilingual in a debate with Jeb Bush, English and Crackuh.

As my white family came back to our new-ish home in a fairly nice project in southern Dade County (garden townhomes that were way nicer than anywhere else we had lived and with enough bedrooms to hold a family of 10) people yelled down at us, "Hey Honkeys" and "Look at the Crackers". I had never heard either of these…

Most music, art, is meant to express emotions not instruct. Catharsis is demanded from time to time.

There is a Wegman's in Woodbridge VA. This is a very good thing. I live in Montclair, VA. Leafy Suburban NJ and Leafy Suburban VA are twins.

Well, Facts of Life didn't exactly showcase his talent. Nor did his role of Booker Books on Roseanne.

Hell, it showed us that George Clooney could act. Love that movie.

Makes you wonder how bad the sex writing in these other books that beat him out (ha ha) for the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award for 2010. Nominees for Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2010

And how nice that they let conservatives come first. Only right.