I declare FB Pic War: A combat manual

My kids and I were sniffling as we prepared to move. The dust hesitated in the air, and like a swarming mob crowded into the crevices of our sinuses. That made the task of prepping to move more and more miserable by the moment. Then at the height of my misery, I came across a [...]

The skinny, the fat on the Facebook hacks


Use Facebook and your grades will suffer?

I just read an article that drew some correlations between grades and Facebook use. The gist was that students who used Facebook were typically a 1/2 letter grade below students who didn’t. You can check out the article here.
The really difficult thing about assessing these types of claims is that many angles have not been [...]

Facebook: The clash of realities

I recently visited a good friend’s Facebook page and sat stunned as I watched a group of white high school kids sing “Shout” by Otis Redding in Black face and wigs. What’s worse is that it was my high school and I remember the performance. As I sat there watching, all the emotions which had [...]

Let’s retire Uncle Tom

Speaking of sticks and stones, I stumbled across a Facebook group, Uncle Tom: Anthology and I couldn’t help but ponder on the pejorative, Uncle Tom.

Like school yard kids eager to exact retribution for bubble gum stolen and secrets revealed, Black Americans, and oddly enough Al-Qeda and even Ralph Nader love to hurl this incendiary [...]