1974 (Note: This is a comical review of the species Homo Sapiens, i.e. Human Being. It is intended as a basic guide for all persons who are people watchers.) ‘People watching’ is something most persons do when they are bored or jus’ being nosy.  And yet some persons make it their business to study people…

Our national media is failing us and we are letting them. More of you know who Michael Brown and Eric Garner are than about the nearly 45 young Black men shot over Easter weekend in Chicago.  While the media is feeding the frenzy of ‘racial mistrust’ – there are events in our nation that will…

It’s a video you won’t see in the mainstream media, which starts with Ferguson, Missouri protesters burning an American flag, then kicking it into the street. This is followed by one man using the flaming flag to light his cigarette. It then cuts to a car speeding by as four Missouri National Guardsmen and a police…

Thomas Lincoln was known for herding his goat, through his mother’s tea parties, appointing himself toll taker on the White House stairway, making everyone give him a nickel before they could pass, and for once interrupting a Cabinet meeting so his father could sign a “pardon” for one of his dolls.  Teddy Roosevelt’s children, especially…

It was Mark Twain who said, “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” The FBI collects records from local and state law enforcement every month as part of their Uniform Crime Reporting system, which is what they use to produce official reports on crime rates in the US.  Those records tell the…

Larry McQuilliams targeted several buildings in Austin on the morning of November 28, including the Mexican Consulate, the United States Federal Courthouse and Austin Police headquarters within a 10-minute period. Police Chief Art Acevedo said at least 100 rounds were fired within that time frame. Now Acevedo wants the residents of Austin to turn friends…

Zemir Begic came to the U.S. from Bosnia in 1996, moving first to Utica, NY, before settling in Waterloo, Iowa, then moving to St. Louis where he married Arijana Mujkanovic, six months ago. Begic died early Sunday morning in St. Louis after four kids walked up and began beating on his car using hammers. Mujkanovic was…

Dear National Media types: Every evening, while watching ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX news, I see your field correspondence having trouble figuring out where they are reporting from within the ‘Golden State.’ Please allow me to help. This is Northern California. This is NOT Northern California. Thank you. You can go back now, to your regular self-appointed…

The Obama administration plans to spend $263 million for police body cameras and training in the wake of the shooting death of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown.  The program would offer a total of $75 million over three years to match state funding for the cameras by 50 percent, helping to pay for more than 50,000…

Here We Go Again. A Staten Island grand jury cleared an NYPD cop in the chokehold death of Eric Garner during his caught-on-video arrest for peddling loose cigarettes. The panel voted a “no-bill” and dismissed all charges against Officer Daniel Pantaleo, capping weeks of investigation by the special grand jury, set up in September specifically…