Tag Archives: gun control

Confiscating guns is out. Plan B…?

December 5, 2015 · by · in Firearms politics, Police and policing, Protests · Leave a comment

I’ve avoided this topic for awhile, hoping I wouldn’t have to keep writing about it. But then this… Thing happened in California, the same day as a similar thing happened in Savannah, Georgia. And now I’m stuck. If you’ve read my articles about Dylann Roof, James Holmes, Adam Lanza and the host of other American mass […]

Dylann Roof’s mental health and other delusions

June 19, 2015 · by · in Black Lives Matter, History, near term human extinction · Leave a comment

I don’t think I need to tell you, but Dylann Roof, a 21 year old white man from South Carolina, has been apprehended after allegedly killing nine black parishioners at a church prayer meeting in Emanuel AME, an historic black church in Charleston, SC.  Words fail me. Fortunately, words didn’t fail Jon Stewart, who dispensed with […]

My place-holder post about WBCR and Bradley Manning

March 1, 2013 · by · in Uncategorized · 1 Comment

Last night, we had a terrific guest on WBCR’s Sex And Politics–actress/playwright and activist Claire Lebowitz, who filled in our audience about the events at Bradley Manning’s hearing yesterday at Fort Meade, Maryland.  The show will be available shortly on Podcast. And I will be putting up a longer post about this over the weekend. […]

Don’t know much about that Gun thing…

February 17, 2013 · by · in Don't know much about..., History · Leave a comment

On Thursday (2/7), WBCR‘s Sex and Politics played host to two advocates of full gun rights (aka the status quo) in the aftermath of the attacks at Sandy Hook, Connecticut, Aurora, Colorado, and any number of similar storied recent slaughters of Americans by firearms. I’m not going to re-hash the arguments and counter-arguments made that […]