People of all ages donned their costumes for a Halloween spookatcular as Muskogee Equality had their annual pride event on Saturday, Oct. 26. The only masks people had to wear were for fun as many people from the Muskogee area were at the Martin Luther King Center. There was a costume contest for the kidsContinue reading “Muskogee Scares Up Pride, Love And Equality For All”
Category Archives: Op-Ed
Fake It Till You Make It
I’ve never had to work in the food service industry. I have had to clean up shit that was on the floor. And it wasn’t mine. It was human excrement. The summer of 1998 I got a job bagging groceries at the Piggly Wiggly in my hometown of Calhoun, Ga. Now, this town produced someContinue reading “Fake It Till You Make It”
Misinformation Station, How Do You Ration?
Ok, the headline above does exactly rhyme but you know what? It doesn’t matter because I saw it’s so. (I mean, I’m from the South. You ought to hear what we’ve done to the English language. And yet they get mad about people speaking Spanish.) That’s basically how things have been for well over 20Continue reading “Misinformation Station, How Do You Ration?”
Happy Indigenous People Day! Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
I want to wish everyone a Happy Indigenous People Day as well as a Happy Thanksgiving if you’re Canadian, by birth or immigration. However, we shouldn’t honor Columbus Day for there is no reason to honor him. Thank you again for reading and subscribing. If you have today off from work, I hope you haveContinue reading “Happy Indigenous People Day! Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!”
Kris Kristofferson: A Poet, A Picker, A Prophet, A Pusher, A Pilgrim, A Preacher
It might be hard for some people under 30-35 to believe but country-western music was actually at one time very revolutionary in its delivery. Old school musicians were considered “outlaws” and the music was full of anger, sadness, hurt, desperation and vitality. Kris Kristofferson was one of many along with Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, WaylonContinue reading “Kris Kristofferson: A Poet, A Picker, A Prophet, A Pusher, A Pilgrim, A Preacher”
Happy Birthday, President Carter
One of my favorite stories of President Jimmy Carter is when I was having to go cover a press conference at Georgia Southwestern State University. It was one of those nice Spring afternoons and I was glancing out the window because you don’t want to be inside when I heard the doors open and IContinue reading “Happy Birthday, President Carter”
Please Help Hurricane Relief If You Can
As the last remnants of Hurricane Helene dissipate, I can consider myself lucky. Not lucky that I’m about a good 1,000 miles from the major damage, but lucky I’m not on the road right now because a friend or family member was seriously hurt or died. As of this posting, CNN is reporting there areContinue reading “Please Help Hurricane Relief If You Can”
Final Bow For Dame Maggie Smith
You could probably survey 100 people at random on what they most remember Dame Maggie Smith for and you’d probably get dozens of responses. Smith, who died on Sept. 27 at the age of 89, had a body of work many actors would dream of. It is hard to summarize her work with just aContinue reading “Final Bow For Dame Maggie Smith”
Hope Everyone Is Safe In The South
I hope everyone in the southeastern part of the United States is safe as Hurricane Helene comes up through the Gulf Coast and is expected to travel north along the Georgia/Alabama border and hit the Tennessee Valley area and parts of Lower Appalachia. They’re saying wind gusts in the metro-Atlanta area could reach up toContinue reading “Hope Everyone Is Safe In The South”
Telling Lies In America
I’ll admit it. I believe there could be some psychopaths so extreme on the conservative right spectrum they would believe killing Donald Trump would be better for America. But also, the right has spread so much about hoaxes and crisis actors, why should we be expected to believe them when something real happens to oneContinue reading “Telling Lies In America”
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