Presidential Inauguration 2008: a Conversation with the RNC (probably)

I swear this conversation happened sometime in early 2008 in a Republican Party leader meeting:
Let’s complain about everythingggggg the president wants to do and make people disagree with him so his popularity goes down. 

Let’s do this on every issue he proposes to fix, even if it’s an issue we agree with him on. 

For example, Here you would: Repeat verbatim what the he or his spokesperson says slowly with a question mark at the end soo it makes his words appear questionable. 

If we all do it, Americans will join in on it. 

Let’s get Fox News to help! 

Let’s make America hate Obama and blame his being in office on liberals. That’ll make them look crazy and unpatriotic too and make us look better. Good ol’ GOP! Let’s do it Just because we don’t want him in that office…. 

“Everything he has done has been terrible!” Say it with us people, until you believe it!

Azealia Banks: Mad, Black, and Right

Black Millennials

By Andre G

The media’s misrepresentation of Azealia Banks represents yet another example of outspoken Blackness being purposely misinterpreted by white supremacist propaganda. From Tupac Shakur to Kanye West, so many wildly talented Black artists have garnered an inordinate amount of negative attention for speaking their truths. More troubling is the juxtaposition of their media coverage beside white artists who represent Eurocentric anti-establishment archetypes.

Rockers such as Billy Idol, Ozzy Osbourne, David Lee Roth and more are largely revered for cavorting the world saying and doing what they please. Modern Rock doesn’t have the same scope today as it did 20 years ago, but the next big rock star will surely be from their lineage. They are pop culture’s “Bad Boys,” idolized for embodying an ethos that goes against the grain of life’s mundane. They are who so many “normal people” want to be under the grips of a mind-numbing…

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Tired of all these Autism and ADHD brats!

Interesting view on childhood behavior diagnoses. As a former children’s mental health worker, I often find myself teetering on this topic of whether these diseases actually exist or whether we are over-diagnosing and over-medicating our youth. For some, the answer may be Yes. For others, writing them off as perfectly healthy “brats” is unfair and ignoring an important problem.

Pensive Aspie

When I was a kid they didn’t call it “Behavioral Disorders.”  They called it “Being a little brat!”  This is just ONE of many memes I have seen on my social networks. They are shared by my friends and family. I would like to think that is just the ignorant/uneducated who feel this way, but it isn’t.

Driving home from work a couple weeks ago, a college-educated peer told me that she felt that “most of these autism and adhd diagnoses” are fabricated.  Her son had some of the traits of a child with Autism/ADHD but HE doesn’t have Autism/ADHD so maybe it doesn’t really exist. She felt it was just an “excuse” for people NOT to parent. Did I mention she was COLLEGE EDUCATED?!?  She knew about my blog, my Asperger’s, and my beliefs, but since my thoughts are different from hers, of course mine MUST be wrong.  After…

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