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"Nocturne" The Vocal Artistry of Vegas Valentine

"Nocturne" The Vocal Artistry of Vegas Valentine

The Album Cover for Nocturne

You never know who you know until they let you know! This is how I feel today about Vegas Valentine, a young man who I have known for years in New York’s Burning Man community. Vegas and I have been at Burning Man events together, camped together at I FEEL Summer Escape, and share literally hundreds of mutual friends and connections. But I just found out in an odd…

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The Exit Interview

Subject: The Exit Interview—

I have an important announcement to make to my friends, family and colleagues. I have stepped back from the day-to-day professional world and am now a retiree! I am retired from NBC News and MSNBC following more than 52 years in News. I am blessed to have worked with the most creative and intellectually capable people on the planet, bringing history making, and life…

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Game of Thrones Finale, Yet Another Hit On Female Upward Mobility

Game of Thrones Finale, Yet Another Hit On Female Upward Mobility

I’ve been working more than 50 years in the news business so I’ve seen a lot when it comes to reality and shifts in cultural norms. I’ve been seduced into numbness by Washington politics and desensitized by prime time TV news talk shows. So I understand how we can all become so enraptured by TV created fantasy worlds. But that comes with a price. The price is being oblivious or not being outraged…

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Dear Danielle, I Hope You Made It! (A Story of Connecting and Sharing)

Dear Danielle, I Hope You Made It! (A Story of Connecting and Sharing)

I had a miserable travel experience on American Airlines two weeks ago. I had to fly out of Norfolk to Ft. Lauderdale at 5am to make a 10:30am meeting in Miami. The flight from Norfolk had a connection in Charlotte with a 40-minute window to make the connection.

As it turned out, we boarded the plane on time, there was bad weather across the country, but that did not affect the route to…

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Now More Than Ever!

Now More Than Ever!

My world seems darker by the minute, as I watch the news and discuss the political state of this nation with friends and family. It seems as if even though we are on the same side of an idea, or agree on basic issues, the conversations end with anger toward those things that dominate our psyche. I don’t want polarized politics to dominate my conversations, but the various iterations of crazy…

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One Song, "God Bless America," Two Interpretations!

One Song, “God Bless America,” Two Interpretations!

It’s about sincerity!  Potus made a big stink about the Philadelphia Eagles not showing up for his party and decided to disinvite them saying they did not respect the flag or the military. Never mind not a single Philadelphia Eagle took a knee during the national anthem last season. But the truth of the matter is Potus has made a shambles of the camaraderie and cohesion inherent in sports, and…

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Can We Please Go Back To Enjoying the Grandeur of Things?

I am so annoyed that online second guessers, trolls, and “know-it-alls” had all these negative things to say about Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl LII performance. They hated his outfit, they hated the song arrangements, they even hated that he had Prince make an appearance.

Yes, it is true that Timberlake’s outfit was so “low brow” that if you gave him a half drunk bottle of pluck and sat him in…

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More Guns, More Danger, Especially for People of Color

More Guns, More Danger, Especially for People of Color

I’m just gonna point out how it will not make the public any safer, especially black men, if we moved toward a society where everyone was armed as a response to mass gun violence.

Do you remember Philado Castile, who July 6, 2016 told a Minneapolis police officer that he was armed with a legal hand gun, but was shot dead anyway in front of his girlfriend and her baby as he sat in a car?

Philano…

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Happy Holidays, I think?

Happy Holidays, I think?

It is just November 6, and Christmas commercials are already running on TV and in print media. So I guess it is not too early to wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS! Though holiday commercialism appears to happen earlier and earlier each cycle, this year, I welcome the change in conversation. Why? Because slowly but surely, we are talking about family and holiday interactions and not Donald Trump!

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I find peace in objects that inspire!

My inspiration! I find peace in objects that inspire!

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There has been a lot of negativity going around! This is yo remind you that “you are so loved!”

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Taking a match to burn healthcare down!

Taking a match to burn healthcare down!

It is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard! Since the GOP can’t get consensus on healthcare reform, their leaderships is asking to burn down the existing health care infrastructure, a giant “F-YOU” to their constituents who have once experienced coverage and are demonstrating against taking it away. This is child-like petulance led by an unkind, narrow-minded leadership whose main goal is…

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For me, the “Summer of Hell” is just swell!

For me, the “Summer of Hell” is just swell!

I’ve been a LIRR commuter for 8 years now, coming out of Port Jefferson to Hunters Point Avenue in a daily grinding four and a half hour routine that has become second nature. And it’s expensive! My monthly pass with two subway rides a day costs $432 a month. So when the MTA announced that they were giving a 25% fare reduction on the LIRR and a free transfer to the subway if you chose either…

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Trump Warned if Clinton Won, There Would Be Endless Investigations…. Not So Fast, Monkey Boy!

Trump Warned if Clinton Won, There Would Be Endless Investigations…. Not So Fast, Monkey Boy!

To scare voters away from Hillary, Trump promised endless investigations, said those damn emails were the biggest scandal since Watergate, and accused the Obama administration of cover ups. He argued that there would be a constitution crisis that would prevent Clinton from governing. These are arguments that Donald Trump made in the closing days of the 2016 presidential election. But now with the…

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Dry your acid rain tears, a United States is greater than one man!

Dry your acid rain tears, a United States is greater than one man!

It is time to realize that the power of the American people does not mean following President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S.out of the anti-greenhouse gas Paris Agreement. The states have the power to trump a bad move! Case in point, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced he and his counterparts in California and Washington State would form the “United States Climate Alliance”—a “forum to…

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Doubling Down On Modern Day Slavery

Doubling Down On Modern Day Slavery

Don’t you get it? Jeff Sessions is an antebellum bigot whose agenda is to use the Department of Justice as a pipeline to provide modern-day slaves to the new plantation system, privatized prisons.

Child inmates work the fields in 1903, photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

The Global Research Group says,“Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are…

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Donald J. Trump State Park, Could This Be America in 4 Years?