Last night, the usual lead story on the local news, somebody shooting somebody else, was interrupted for five minutes or so, to devote time to a much bigger story, politicians stabbing us all in the back over some selfish bullsh*t: Ohio’s hopes of...

Kanye West’s latest gift to the world, The Nike Air Yeezy, arrived in Cleveland this week.  Whee. The sneakers retail for $215, but they are so exclusive that people have paid thousands of dollars for them at consignment shops and on the Internet...

For those of you who don’t know exactly what Juneteenth is, here’s a brief rundown: June 19 is the annual celebration of Juneteenth, the oldest ongoing celebration in honor of the abolition of slavery in the United States.  On June 19th, 1865,...

In 1906, Upton Sinclair wrote THE JUNGLE, a novel about the corruption rampant in the American meatpacking industry of the early 20th Century. He sought out to evoke sympathy for the workers in the meatpacking industry from the American public as...

That sound you hearing is the frantic filling of sandbags calls to their corporate lawyers by the likes of the NCAA and “Massa” David Stern of the NBA, to be thrown on top of their leaky, shakey, tired corrupt levees rules they’ve put up to...