Published: mic (February 28, 2014)
It’s the NFL off-season and while players are on vacation and there’s no good excuse to get debauched on a Sunday any longer, something else is afoot — NFL rule changes.
On Feb. 22, news broke that the NFL’s Competition Committee is considering an automatic 15-yard penalty for use of the “n-word” on the field and presumably other racial slurs.
Published: mic (February 24, 2014), Appearance on Channel 69 – WFMZ (February 25, 2014)
The news: Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel plans to announce billions of dollars in military spending cuts, reducing our armed forces to troop levels unseen since 1940— before America entered World War II. In addition to reducing the size of our standing army, he will also propose limiting pay raises, increasing health care premiums, reducing benefits like housing allowances, and eliminating the use of A-10 “tank killer” aircraft and the U-2 spy plane.... Read Original Article
Published: mic (February 2, 2014)
Millennials are suckers for nostalgia, which is why RadioShack’s Super Bowl commercial was an advertising masterpiece.
The spot opens with a RadioShack employee completing a phone call and informing his co-worker, “The ’80s called. They want their store back.”
Cue a string of cameos to make even the most oversaturated nostalgia junkie experience an overdose.
Published: mic (January 23, 2014)
n case you missed it, Wednesday was the anniversary of a revolution.
Imagine if 30 years ago (only a few years after Al Gore invented the Internet), someone had envisioned a future in which there would be a personal computer in every home. Well, the geniuses at Apple saw it coming, and their iconic “1984” ad was a milestone event in a revolution that would fundamentally change our generation.... Read Original Article
Published: mic (January 20, 2014)
If he was alive today, Martin Luther King, Jr. would not have been a Republican.
In light of the frequency with which he is cited as a hero and role model, that point cannot be reiterated enough. We often hear about King’s crusades to end legal segregation in the South and de facto segregation in the North, but far less attention is paid to the inextricable link between his views on civil rights and his philosophy on economic matters.... Read Original Article
Published: mic (January 11, 2014)
“I am 73 years old. I’ve seen everything. I’ve met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I’ve been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.”
When Ariel Sharon uttered these words in the first year of his tenure as prime minister of Israel, observers of Middle Eastern politics were understandably skeptical of their sincerity.... Read Original Article