Makes Me Want To Holla

Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday.
A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him.
If his mother had been insured.
If his family had not lost its Medicaid.
If Medicaid dentists weren’t so hard to find.
If his mother hadn’t been focused on getting a dentist for his brother, who had six rotted teeth.
By the time Deamonte’s [...]

I’m Not Homo-phobic; I’m Chick-o-Centric

By Doug Giles.

“I think I speak for most heterosexual males when I say I’m not homophobic but chick-o-centric. Let’s keep it positive, okay? It’s not that we dislike you, the gay guy; it’s just that we really like girls. It seems no matter how long we compliantly spend in rehab undergoing the most stringent psychotherapy [...]

Tension

A troubled and depressed Martin Luther King looks over a crowd. (196 As I (J) get older, and my life path intertwines with the paths of more and more people, I find myself having tension or conflicts with an increasing amount of people. It’s disconcerting, not only because I feel that I [...]

Quote of the Day

“If I use a dollar to buy food, then tomorrow I have nothing. If I use a dollar to buy a bullet, then I can eat every day.”
Mogadishu Resident