Post Debate Groove

Looking back on the debates, I think about the things unasked, the spaces in between. The candidates weren’t asked about guns and the recent Supreme Court decision in Heller. And they weren’t asked about prisons. And they weren’t asked about America’s lack of industrial production as it relates to our growing addiction to consumerism and [...]

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Elections and Genocide

Bored by endless and empty “Obama v. McCain” stories in the national media? I sure am.
But if you still want to follow the races, turn your eyes to Memphis. This Thursday, Steve Cohen is running for re-election in Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District. Who is Cohen? He’s the first Jewish person to represent Tennessee in Congress. [...]

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Armenia Mania

Just recently we had the much-reviled-by-the-right-for-some-reason Nancy Pelosi speaking in public about Armenia, “urging passage of the Armenian Genocide Resolution, a move described by legislators on both sides of the aisle as a long overdue rejection of Turkey’s “gag-rule” on the U.S. Congress and a powerful step toward ending all forms of U.S. complicity in [...]

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A Little Armenian History Music, If You Please…

I responded in the comments to a provocative reader comment concerning my recent post about Armenia and Azerbaijan. That post was written in a very joking tone, and I wasn’t expecting anyone to step in and start defending Azerbaijan. So let me include a little documentation for those of you who might have read that [...]

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Yo, who is Azerbaijan tryin’ to step to?

More than 50 members of Congress are trying to pressure Alabama’s own Condi Rice to roll up and check them fools. Azeri President Ilham Aliyev thinks he knows what’s up with Nagorno-Karabakh? Oh hell naw. Why are they harassing my ancestral land all South Caucasus style?
In other ethnic heritage/genocide news, the lead singer from [...]

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