It’s long past time for the powers that be to corral the outlaw mentality at our local Dunes of Death, aka the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area. I’m not sure they want reform, though. Their reaction to the recent carnage is the same “look the other way” mentality that has long dominated at the […]
ROBERT C. CUDDY
Posted inOpinion
Where’s the balance?
The media need to check their coverage of our political candidates
The scene: Studios of the NNN (Nazi News Network), Berlin, 1933. “Good evening. I am your host, Wolfgang Tod. Tonight on ‘Important Issues’ we look at the question of whether Jews caused Germany to lose World War I and should therefore be exterminated. “Speaking for the government we have the minister of propaganda. For the […]
Posted inOpinion
Keep out the KKK
America’s overt racists, politics, and 100 years of ‘progress’
Now that the Oscars have been handed out, the hoo-ha surrounding diversity in the motion picture industry will subside. But it won’t stay dormant for long. A young African American writer and actor named Nate Parker has made a movie about Nat Turner’s slave revolt in the mid-19th century. He has titled it Birth of […]
Posted inMusic, Arts & Culture
Color lines: Major League Baseball’s managers reflect a trend that leans toward racism
A few decades back, a Los Angeles Dodgers executive named Al Campanis got into a heap of trouble for opining that African Americans might be good ball players, but they lacked the “necessities” to be field managers or executives. Apparently, the spirit of Al Campanis has returned and is now haunting the suites of the […]
