BLACK WOMAN DO THE MATH!

80 percent of Black women are single mothers.

70 percent of Black women are single.

70 percent of Black males drop out of high school.

80 percent of Black men under 30 are unemployed.

70 percent of the prison population under 30 are Black males.

50 percent of Black girls are dropping out of high school and this number is increasing.

Doing the math on these statistics one variable always comes up in all this dysfunction in the Black community: The Black woman.

A majority of the Black males who drop out of high school come from single parent homes led by Black females.

A majority of the Black males with literacy issues and come from single parent homes led by Black females.

A majority of the unemployed Black males come from single parent homes led by Black females.

A majority of the Black males in the prison system come from single parent homes led by Black females.

A majority of Black women are single. Most complain they can’t find a man.

But they’ve raised a majority of their sons to be dysfunctional for the past 50 years. We have more weak males like simps, manginas and homosexuals in the Black community than in any time in history.

And currently, a majority of the problems that made many black men dysfunctional and self-destructive are now making larger and larger percentages of young Black girls dysfunctional and self-destructive as well. As I stated before, more and more Black girls are dropping out of school, getting more violent and getting into trouble with the law.

Doing the Math I surmise that the majority of the ongoing problems come from homes led by Black women or by Black women.

Clearly the Black woman is doing something wrong leading their families on their own. Because it’s tearing the Black community apart.

It’s safe to say the Matriarchy led by the “strong Black woman” over the last 50 years has failed.

But tell Black women this and you’ll get shouted down. She blames everyone else but refuses to take a look at her actions. She refuses to take responsibility for her actions.

They’ve been so brainwashed by their White Man Uncle Sam that they can’t see how their co-dependence on him is leading up to the growing anarchy and chaos in the Black community.

Black women will do anything to keep their government handouts like Welfare, food stamps, Section 8, student loans, and mortgages.

Doing the math on the Black woman’s behavior it’s clear she’s the prime number popping up in all the problems fractioning the Black community. Her mind just can’t process logically that the numbers given to her by White superemacists make no sense. And because she doesn’t understand she’s been given an illogical math formula by those White supremacists, she doesn’t understand why her life isn’t adding up.

Black woman Do the math. If things keep going wrong in your lives the lowest common denominator in the situation is YOU.

Commencement Book Three Now available at online booksellers

In part three of this four part e-book miniseries, Allen believes he has finally discovered “his mission” and is anxious to get through it in order to get out of his present occupation. He then finds himself baffled by the opposition he encounters when he tries to execute his plan. Meanwhile Tim, Tamiko, and Jim are confronted by unforeseen events, which require each of them to re-evaluate their circumstances and make difficult decisions that will have lasting consequences.

Commencement Book Three on Smashwords (FREE)
Commencement Book Three on Kindle (99 CENTS!) 
Commencement Book Three on Nook (99 CENTS!)










Also Available

Commencement Book Two
After experiencing a spiritual awakening, Allen begins to put away his own aspirations and tries to discern God’s plan for his life, making a new friend in the process. Allen’s friends try to assist him with solving his spiritual puzzle, but each one ends up distracted by his/her own personal trials and tribulations. This is the second part of four in this e-book miniseries.

Commencement Book Two on Smashwords (FREE!)
Commencement Book Two on Kindle (99 CENTS)
Commencement Book Two on Nook (99 CENTS)








Commencement Book  One

Allen Sharpe has just graduated from one of the most prestigious Ivy League universities in the nation and is eager to get started on making his “American dream” come true. However, the dream becomes a nightmare when Allen finds himself looking for work in the midst of an economic recession. Allen quickly discovers that finding a job is much harder than he expected and realizes that it’s going to take more than a fancy diploma to make it in the world. 
This is the first part of a four-part journey in which Allen learns important life lessons that he couldn’t ever get from a college textbook.

Commencement Book One On Smashwords (FREE)
Commencement Book One on Kindle (99 CENTS)
Commencement Book One On Nook (99 CENTS)

And get the complete Commencement novel in Paperback. 

Commencement Paperback on Amazon
Commencement Paperback on Barnes & Noble

America Lost the War on Drugs Years ago- It's time to focus on Rehabilitation instead of Incarceration.

Forty years.

Six trillion dollars.

1.5 million arrests a year.

Over Two million people in prison.

And despite a concentrated effort to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States we now have more drug abusers in America today than when the “war on drugs” started back in 1971.

Now I’ve never touched a drug in my life. Nor do I condone or support illegal drug abuse or prescription drug abuse. But looking at those statistics I’m wondering if America’s efforts to curb drug abuse over the past four decades by criminalizing it are really effective.

Ninety percent of the criminal court cases these days being prosecuted are for drug abuse and drug possession. And today a majority of those cases are for small personal amounts of marijuana, not hard drugs like heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine. It actually costs states more to prosecute an individual than the street value of the drugs purchased in most cases.

And a majority of the inmates in federal and state prisons these days are non-violent drug offenders. In fact, there are so many non-violent drug offenders incarcerated that there’s practically no room for violent criminals like rapists, murderers and pedophiles.

And for all these efforts by law enforcement, to deter drug abuse by punishment and imprisonment over 

the past forty years, the cultural perception of drug use has actually become more glamorized and normalized by the media.

Athletes like Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire and Pro Wrestlers openly abuse drugs like steroids.

Celebrities like Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan openly abuse drugs regularly.

Politicians openly abuse drugs.

And oftentimes none of these prominent people are punished or ostracized by the public for their abuse of illegal drugs or prescription drugs.

Currently, Television and Movies openly promote drug abuse. Films like Pinapple Express, and TV shows like That 70’s Show often depict drug abuse as something humorous or harmless.

Over the past 25 years the United States of America has become #1 consumer of illegal narcotics in the world. Americans currently smoke more marijuana than European countries like The Netherlands and Canada where it’s legal and regulated.

So why are drugs still illegal in America?

I don’ think it’s to protect people. Laws would actually keep narcotics out of the hands of minors. Laws would maintain some type of safety standards and force manufacturers to reveal what’s in their product.

And I don’t think it has to do with keeping a moral and just society. So many of those who preached vehemently against illegal drug use like Rush Limbaugh were caught abusing drugs themselves.

Personally, I think it’s because of plain old American pride.

Americans hate to admit when they’re wrong.

We’d rather throw billions of dollars away and waste millions of lives than admit we made a mistake about a law or a policy we put on the books. That’s always been the American way.

An American would rather die than admit they made a mistake. Which is why America currently continues to fight a war against drugs that we’ve clearly lost.

I’ve known since I was 15 that a war on drugs is silly. You can’t fight a drug. It’s an inanimate object. It’s like declaring war against shoelaces.

There’s no way to stop the supply of illegal narcotics as long as there’s a demand for it. There’s no way to stop the abuse of prescription medication as long as there’s a demand for the product. It just runs counter to the free enterprise economic system.

The United States is the number one consumer of illegal narcotics and abusers of prescription medication in the world because we have the most drug users in the world.

It’s a painful fact that Most Americans don’t want to admit.

Moreover, The United States of America is the country that promotes the idea of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” People are free to choose their own path here in these fifty states, and the hard lesson no one today learned from prohibition back in the 1920’s was that the law can’t stop them from getting drunk if that’s their happiness they wish to pursue.

Unfortunately, to the chagrin of some Americans a majority of us are happy to be high. Others find peace in being strung out.

And you can’t legislate against the will of the American people.

Trying to focus on the supply side of the problem for the past forty years has only allowed for the further proliferation of narcotics on the black market. And this black market proliferation is what’s driving up the price of drugs overall. Moreover, it’s these high black market profits that are enriching gangs like the Crips and Bloods who terrorize inner-city neighborhoods. And it’s what’s making so much wealth in Mexico that drug cartels are killing and terrorizing Mexican citizens so one group can control the trade routes into the United States. If there wasn’t a huge U.S. demand for drugs, criminals here and in Mexico wouldn’t be going out of their way to risk their lives to supply it.

On the surface it looks great in pictures to show ICE agents in bulletproof vests with machine guns breaking down doors, and Federal Judges throwing the book at dealers in a courthouse, but the overall impact on drug use in America is negligible overall.

If all these efforts to stop the supply were curbing demand, why do we have more addicts now than in 1971?

In a free-market economy locking up one supplier is ineffective way of combating drug abuse because like a hydra another capitalist will just rise to take their place in a quest to make those profits. It does nothing to deter demand for the narcotics from the user, the primary reason why the suppliers are going into business.

I feel it’s time for a change in American drug policy. I feel the only way to deter the demand for drug use in society is to create a drug policy that focuses resources on the supporting the user, not combating the suppliers. What’s really needed for the country is a plan that focuses on hospitalization, not criminalization. There needs to be more government money spent on healthcare programs focusing on prevention, mental health counseling, and rehabilitation and less spent on law enforcement and prosecution. 

The Black Woman's Reversal of Fortune

In the 1992 Terry McMillan published Waiting to Exhale. That story detailed the struggles of single successful well-educated Black women who alleged they couldn’t find a “good” Black man. 

Over the course of the past two decades those single successful well-educated Black women who identified with the characters in McMillan’s novel constantly complained that they couldn’t find a Black Man. They went on talk shows like Oprah, and news shows like Dateline NBC and Nightline complaining about the shortage of “good” Black Men in their communities. 

These forums often devolved into man-bashing events where Black women called Black men cheaters, liars, criminals, no-good, trifilin’ and sorry. They whined about how these men didn’t take care of their kids, were uneducated, had no motivation and how they didn’t work. 

As Black women aired their dirty laundry, it turned into a cottage industry for writers, publishers playwrights, film producers, directors, and many others in the media. Many like Oprah Winfrey, Terry McMillan, and Tyler Perry got rich as Black women shed their tears for the cameras.

In all this media bashing Black men the question was asked: What do Black men bring to the table? 

Fast forward to today. 

In 2012 I’m hearing more and more from educated Black men who are now saying they can’t find a “good” Black woman. 

Brothers are saying that most of the Black women today have nothing to offer them. They say most of the single Black women today have illegitimate kids by multiple fathers. That they’ve been once or twice divorced. How some have incurable veneral diseases like herpes and HIV and AIDS. How others struggle with drug and alcohol problems. And how quite a few have mental health issues. Many are overweight, physically out of shape and barely able to take care of themselves let alone maintain a relationship.

Financially, many of the once successful single well-educated Black women who were making five and six figures on their high-profile jobs are drowning in debt and struggling to pay their bills due to years of irresponsible living. The years of partying, drinking, and cavorting have caught up with them. Due to their excessive spending they have amassed debts on student loans, houses they couldn’t afford, cars that they couldn’t pay for, and closets full of designer clothes they’re still paying for on their credit card bills. 

And now good brothers are asking those single successful well educated Black women: What do they bring to the table?

Unfortunately the answer is: Not much.

Twenty years ago many of the good Black men were ignored by the Black women in their communities. No, Black women put those men down as “boring” and wanted nothing to do with them.

And over those two decades these invisible brothers have persevered working hard behind the scenes to get their lives in order. They got their educations. They started business. They’ve established themselves. And now most of these brothers are ready for committed relationships. Many more are ready to marry, settle down and start families.

But the Black women aren’t available for them to marry. 

Why? Because the Black women wouldn’t wait on God. No, they wanted a man when they wanted to have a man when they wanted one, not when God wanted to provide them with one.

Moreover, they wanted a man on their terms, not God’s. Arrogant and belligerent the Strong Single Successful Independent Black woman wanted a man she could control and be leader over instead of letting the man lead her the way God intended to.

And while Strong, Single Successful Independent Black Woman pursued men on her own terms over the last twenty years, she ignored the good men in her community and didn’t provide support for them when they were at the bottom struggling to build themselves up.

And now while these Strong Single, Successful Independent Black women deal with all the emotional and personal baggage they’ve accumulated in their lives they’re unable to pursue the numerous good Black Men God is establishing in the community. 

When I think about today’s Black Women I think about the verse in The Bible about the parable of the ten virgins. Five had oil for their lamps and five did not. The five that had oil were ready to go into the wedding and the five that didn’t were cast into darkness. 

Today’s Strong single successful Independent Black women are like five foolish virgins who didn’t have oil for their lamps. Impatient, they refused to follow God’s will for her life and prepare herself for marriage. Moreover they refused to wait on God to provide the man He had for her to be with. Instead they went on their own way and pursued relationships with Men unsuitable to do God’s work.

Now after long delays and long suffering, the good Black men are ready to marry.

But a majority of the Black women aren’t available to marry them. No, they squandered the money they were supposed to spend on oil for their lamps years ago. And because they have no oil for their lamps they can’t see the way God has laid out for them to go, or the Man He had for them to be with.

Due to their sinful actions the Strong Independent Single Successful Black women are soon to be cast into the darkness like the virgins who didn’t have oil for their lamps.

But before they are judged, the truth is coming to the light about their numerous secrets.

And we find that these black women who were allegedly looking for the “good” black men weren’t actually so “good” themselves. Like the four women in McMillan’s popular novel many of those single, successful well-educated black women were holding their breath not in the hopes of finding that good man, but in the hopes that their skeletons in their closets wouldn’t be revealed to the world. 

The truth is now coming out about the adulterous affairs these Independent Single Successful Black women had with married men. The perverted sexual encounters they had with numerous strangers behind closed doors. How they dated thugs and ex-convicts in the hopes of controlling and manipulating a man. How they intentionally got pregnant in the hopes of keeping a dysfunctional relationship alive. How they had numerous abortions, and had illegitimate children by multiple fathers. How they started marijuana, cocaine and prescription drug habits. How they stabbed people in the back on their high-profile jobs to get ahead. How they mistreated people young and old with their horrible attitudes, foul mouths and abrasive personalities. 

All while presenting this façade of being the “good” Christian Black woman who just couldn’t find a man. The truth was they couldn’t find the good man because they weren’t good themselves. 

This is the Reversal of Fortune Black women. They payment God has given them for all their years of lies and deceit. Because they conformed to the standards of the world, these sistas have reaped what they have sowed. And it’s a bitter harvest.

Because they were unwilling to be a help meet suitable to the Standard of God, they are unable to pursue relationships with the Good Black men they say they’ve been pursuing for decades. 

Today in 2012 the tables have turned on the Strong Independent single, successful Black Woman. Understanding the truth about these women the good Black men don’t want anything to do with them. Good Brothers see past the façade of weaves, designer clothes and the content of their despicable character that comes from their hearts. 

Sistas, you have a chance to change your fortunes. But until you submit to God and Let Him change who you are on the inside, you will never find a “good” Black man. Because it is only when a woman conforms to the standard of a suitable help meet in the eyes of God that they will be able to find good Black man to share their lives with. 

WHY SHOULD WE CARE? The one question the Comic book Industry just can’t answer

Deaths.

New costumes.

Retcons.

Reboots.

New Number one issues.

New Universes.

Yet after all these efforts the comic book industry hasn’t been able to get any new readers in the past nineteen going on twenty years.

While there are other issues like distribution and pricing that keep comic books out of new readers’ hands the main reason why people don’t buy comic books today is the content. The stories published currently just don’t answer one question effectively: WHY SHOULD WE CARE?

If the reader doesn’t have a reason to care, then they have no reason to invest their time and money into the story.

If the writer and the artist can’t make the reader CARE they have failed.

And looking at the sales numbers, most comic book writers have failed at their jobs over the last past twenty years.

They tell stories that most readers can’t care about. Worse, they tell stories that new readers can’t access.

In their desperation, today’s comic book writers throw gimmicks at the reader in the hopes of getting the readers’ attention. Deaths, rapes, murders. Mutilations. Sex.

When that doesn’t work they retcon their mistakes with a retroactive continuity that makes a character’s history even more confusing and harder to follow. And when that doesn’t work they cancel that volume and start over with a new writer and artist and a number one issue.

Again.

Again.

And Again.

And when all these efforts don’t work, some publishers like DC Comics blow up their universe and start all over again. For the umpmillionth time.

Giving the reader less and less reasons to care about comic books. Why should the reader invest time and money in comics if the writer can’t commit to a telling a series of entertaining stories?

All of this focus on shocking readers with gimmicks and events shows me that the comic book industry has some half-assed writers working in it today. People with no sense of craft and no story sense. People phoning in work for a paycheck. People who don’t care. People who have no business in this industry.

If some of these comic book writers were in trade publishing, their stories wouldn’t make it past the slush pile. Yes, the storytelling is that bad these days.

Shock plot devices like deaths, mutilations, graphic sex, and profanity are the tools a hack writer uses to cover up their lack of storytelling ability. Bad writers need these plot devices to deflect the reader from their inability to make an interesting main character, an exciting premise and a compelling storyline.

Bad writers hope that by distracting the reader with gore, sex and violence they won’t see the house of cards comic books have when it comes to the basics of structure and form of storytelling. That writers don’t do their homework. That they don’t think the premise through. That they didn’t figure out the characters’ mission. That they didn’t understand the mission of an existing character. That they didn’t do the research necessary to get the little details in a story right. That they didn’t take the time to even figure out what direction they wanted to go in before putting fingers to keyboard.

The end result of this lack of craft are comic books with no story and no point. What today’s readers get are a bunch of random violent events that are meant to shock them and keep them strung along buying issue after issue until the writer figures out what kind of conclusion they want to tack on 24 to 100 issues later.

Part of good storytelling is showing. Putting pictures in the readers’ head. A good writer shows, shows, and show some more. Action defines character, and in a visual medium like comic books the reader needs to see a lot of action in the pictures. Showing a character in action allows the reader to visualize in their mind. Imagine the action coming to life. Hear the sounds of voices, noises and explosions.

Most comic book writers today don’t know how to write action that translates into exciting panels when an artist interprets their words. Most of the action in American comic books today is stiff posed like fashion models or television storyboards. It’s not bold, or dynamic. The reader can’t get into the story because everything is so unfocused. Usually most comics feature talking, talking and more talking and not doing.

I’ve read comics from publishers like Marvel and DC with long setups. Comics with unclear premises. Awkward dialogue. Underdeveloped characters. Taking 22 pages to write nothing but exposition.

Instead of writing compelling stories, most of today’s comic book writers spend their time pandering to the small audience of over 35 fanboys who are familiar with a character’s long history instead of writing in such a way that makes comics accessible to a new generation of Independent and Young Adult readers.

Worse, they pad stories out with a decompressed story model. In today’s comic book industry it takes seven to eight issues to get to plot point one and 24-36 issues to finish a story. At $4 a copy that lowers the entertainment value of a comic book to $0 compared to other forms of media such as video games, movies which provide a faster payoff for the customers’ entertainment dollar.

In this economy it’s a fight for every entertainment dollar. And comic book creators and publishers are bringing knives to a gunfight. And the movie, ebook and video game industries have machine guns, smart bombs and missles.

Today’s comic book writers, artists, editors, and publishers don’t know how to compete in a changing entertainment world. Sadly over the past ten years I’d have to say they’re regressing instead of adapting.

It shouldn’t take ten pages for readers to meet the main character in a comic. It shouldn’t take three whole issues for us to figure out what they want. And it shouldn’t take six whole issues for the reader to care.

If a good movie can answer these three basic questions in ten minutes then why can’t a comic book writer do it in five pages?

Comic book writers forget a principle element in writing: That the readers’ time is precious. Every second that a writer spends wasting time on exposition is a second that the reader can be lost. The longer a writer takes to setup a plot, the higher the chance the reader’s attention will be lost to another form of entertainment. With today’s reader bombarded with a million other options they aren’t going to wait three months for a comic book storyline to start setting up. Life is too short to wait for some writer to figure out what they want the main character to do in 22 pages. Why should the reader care about spending time to read a story if the writer doesn’t respect their time ?

Moreover, comic book writers forget the readers’ money is valuable. Three issues at four dollars a pop is $12. That’s twelve dollars. Compound this with the three months and it’s clear why the comic book industry is in dire straits these days. It’s just a waste of time and money for the customer.

A reader can spend twelve dollars on a 300-400 page paperback and get more for their money than they’d get in a 32-page comic book. That’s one of the reasons why people aren’t reading comic books.

Today’s slow decompressed approach to comic book storytelling doesn’t give the customer a reason to get excited about comic books. It doesn’t make them passionate enough to anticipate the next issue. It makes them head for the exit of the comic shop empty-handed. Worse, it makes them tell their friends not to pick up that book.

And that word of mouth is killing the comic book industry. Word-of-mouth is how books are sold. Friends tell friends about books. They lend friends their old books to read. They go to the store and ask retailers who sell books to order them special for them. And if retailers get enough demand for those books they stock them in their stores regularly.

That’s why it’s important for writers to write comic book stories readers of all ages can care about. If a publisher can’t build a demand by producing quality product, then they can’t sell the supply. Basic economics.

A comic book story should be easy to access. Readers should know who the main character and what they want in three pages or less. And the audience should be given a reason to care by page five.

It’s a writer’s job to craft stories that are well-written. Easy to access in five pages or less. Stories that feature characters readers can connect with, relate to and identify with. Stories that can give the reader something of value they can take and apply to their own lives. These are the things that make the reader care. These are the things that get people excited for the next issue, to plunk down their money for this issue and the next.

The comic book industry has to make the reader care about comic books again if they want to get sales back up again. Not with gimmicks, graphic violence, graphic sex and events that take a hundred issues to figure out. No, they have to make readers care about the stories they tell and the characters featured in one comic book. Until comic book writers can effectively answer the question of why should we care, then they’ll never get readers passionate enough to build the demand retailers need to begin stocking them again outside of comic shops.

IRRESPONSIBLE DOG OWNERS ARE FUCKTARDS

Dogs are man’s best friend. But some dog owners are absolutely fucktarded when it comes to the basics of caring for a pet. Some of these dog owners are just so fucking irresponsible I want to slap the shit out of them.

Seriously, there should be a law requiring people to take an 8-hour-course with a written exam before they can take ownership of a dog. Because I’ve seen some grown-ass people aren’t smart enough to handle taking care of themselves let alone a goldfish.

There are idiots who walk their dogs on a city street without a leash. These morons arrogantly insist that “their dog will not hurt you” when they charge up to you barking and snarling. No, their dog won’t hurt THEM because they know them. Other people are fair game because dogs are territorial. Worse, other people’s dogs are fair game because dogs are territorial.

Seriously, people this obnoxious should have their pets taken away from them for being so stupid.

Then there are the fools with the pit bulls and the Rottweilers swagger around inner-city neighborhood with unleashed dogs and sagging pants thinking they’re intimidating people. Sorry, but this doesn’t impress anyone.

What’s so cool about showing how irresponsible you are? Someone who walks a dog without a leash is someone who doesn’t understand the basics of pet care.

What these types of dumbasses don’t understand is that a leash is for other people’s safety and the safety of your pet. Leashes keep your dogs under your control. Not just from charging at people, but from running into the street and getting hit by a car.

Moreover, leashes are the law in all 50 states. In some states you can be fined hundreds of dollars for walking a dog without a leash.

In some states you can be held liable if your dog causes harm to someone or damages their property in small claims and civil court.

Then there are the fucktards who tie their dogs in front of stores then go shopping. In their narrow minds “they’re just stopping in for a minute.” Unfortunately, these idiots don’t think of how they inconvenience others with their irresponsible behavior.

I was going to the store one day when some fool tied up his pit bull right in front of the supermarket entrance. While the dog barked and snarled at the entrance, no one could go in the market and those who were inside were left were terrorized by this scared dog as this clueless moron shopped.

Thanks to this dumbass, the business owner lost a whole bunch of money as I and others went to his competitor who had no pets tied out up front. I’m sure a lot of other patrons left that store and didn’t come back thanks to this idiot.

Seriously, how lazy are people that they can’t take a fucking dog back home and then go back to the store? It takes five or ten fucking minutes.

And if I’m a business owner I would have words with stupid asses who do this shit. Even if it costs me their business, I’d tell them to tie up their dogs someplace else. Or better yet, leave them at home when they go shopping. Because business owners are liable if someone is harmed by a dog left tied up by another customer in front of their property.

Hey fucktard dog owners: When you tie a dog up in front of a public entrance you put people’s safety at risk. No one knows if your animal which is barking and growling will attack them.

If time is that precious to you that you can’t schedule a return trip for your pet before going to the store or wherever else, then it’s clear you can’t handle the responsibility of pet ownership. Turn your dog in at the nearest pound.

A super special type of idiot are the dog owners who leave their pets in the car when they go shopping. Oh, this is a super special type of stupid ass who deserves the backside of a hand to the back of their head for being so fucking retarded.

This is another brand of jackass who is “just stopping in the store for a minute”. Usually the minute turns into twenty or so as they peruse items and chat with friends. Meanwhile their dog is frying in the backseat of a car interior that’s over a hundred fucking degrees. These dumbasses don’t understand that cars turn into fucking broilers, especially in the summertime. Even if you crack the back window there isn’t enough ventilation in a car for a pet to breathe. Leaving a dog in the backseat can cause a dog to pass out, get brain damage and in extreme cases die from asphyxiation due to the lack of air.

Seriously, don’t leave any living thing in the back seat of a car to “stop in for a minute”. I’ve even read about babies and toddlers who have died due to idiot parents doing this stupid shit.

Sorry, but again, if you have a pet and you want to shop after taking them for a drive, there is no “stopping in the store for a minute”. If the store doesn’t allow pets (and most don’t due to liability laws) then it means you dog owner are taking TWO FUCKING TRIPS. One to take them back home and another to go shopping. So allot the fucking time lazy motherfuckers.

Then there are the morons who take their dog out for a walk and spend most of their time on a cell phone. I’ve run into this shit numerous times and it just makes me mad every time I run into it. I just want to take that phone out of their hands and ram it up their ass. Maybe then it’ll make them PAY ATTENTION.

Hey idiot, how about paying attention to your pet so they don’t wind up urinating or defecating on someone’s property? Or running into someone else with a bigger dog?

Then there are the imbeciles with the retractable leashes. Oh, these people are FUCKING RETARDED. They let their dogs run around everywhere and don’t PAY FUCKING ATTENTION. These idiots don’t understand that retractable leashes don’t give you the luxury of being irresponsible.

The worst thing is watching these idiots with these retractable leashes standing around on a cell phone. How this fucktard manages to breathe is beyond me. What the fuck could you possibly be fucking talking about that’s so fucking important at seven AM in the damn morning?

Hey dumbass, how about looking out to make sure your pet doesn’t wind up running into the street being turned into roadkill?

What really pisses me off are the stupid ass owners of vicious breeds like Pit Bulls and Rottweilers, who have a new baby. Their ignorance puts their children’s safety at risk. This is another group of idiots that deserve a backhand pimp slap to the back of the skull. Seriously, I have no idea why these morons are allowed to even fucking breed.

These people don’t understand that these breeds aren’t child friendly and family friendly Because of their territorial nature and the need for a clear line of authority, dogs in these breeds see babies as a threat to their place in the hierarchy.

I’ve heard too many horror stories about children who were mutilated, disfigured or killed because irresponsible dog owners who don’t understand that their life has changed. Aggressive breeds and children DO NOT MIX.

If you have babies and toddlers, the aggressive dog must going to a new owner or a pound and be replaced with a more passive dog like a cocker spaniel or a Newfoundland.

And I also get angry at the fucktarded dog owners who send small children to walk big dogs like Pit Bulls, Rottweiler, and other vicious breeds. I’ve seen children small as six who barely weigh eighty pounds being pulled around like a mule by these hundred plus pound dogs they can’t control. The stupid ass parents who own these dogs think they’re teaching their kids responsibility, but they’re actually putting their kids in danger and the public in danger.

Aggressive breeds like pit bulls, Rottweillers and Dobermans need a clear line of authority and a short leash. When they are in public are to be handled and supervised by adults, not small children.

Here’s a note to you fucktarded parents: If you can’t get up off your lazy ass and go out and walk that dog YOU BOUGHT AND ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR, then maybe you shouldn’t own it.

Most dog owners aren’t as incompetent as the people I’ve described. But the handful of idiots are making it hard for the responsible dog owners out there. And they make it hard for people they inconvenience with their reckless and irresponsible behavior. If you know a dog owner like this, show them this blog. These fools need to be checked and checked hard. 

APOOO Book Club review of All About Nikki- The Fabulous First Season

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0615507018/?tag=apooo-20

 APOOO Book Club review below

All About Nikki: The Fabulous First Season by Shawn James is the second teleplay I have read. Mr. James also wrote the first one, where the main character, Nikki, was introduced to me briefly. Nikki was a fictional character being played by an actress named Marilyn Marie. Now Nikki has gotten a life of her own and she believes everything should be all about her and no one else.

After Nikki’s parents got a divorce, custody was awarded to her mother. However, her mother was all about business and money, so she sent Nikki to boarding schools. Due to the distance, Nikki and her mother’s emotional relationship suffered. When Nikki got kicked out of yet another boarding school, her mother sent her to live with her father in California. She thought she was punishing Nikki, but she could not be further from the truth.

Donald Desmond, Nikki’s father, was more than happy to take on the responsibility of raising his daughter. He used the time he was given to teach Nikki the right way to go about earning and giving respect. Donald wants nothing more than to change her from her stuck-up, disrespectful ways. However, it will not be as easy as he thinks. Will Donald have to use the old-fashioned belt to get Nikki to learn the proper way to treat people?

Mr. James provides me with a different type of reading experiences with his teleplays. I enjoy them and like being able to picture more of the scenes and the characters’ actions without the added inflictions from the author. With all that said, there were some errors that needed corrections. There was one thing that stopped me in my flow of reading, causing me to turn back to an earlier episode (instead of chapters there are episodes). That thing was a repetitive beginning to two different episodes. I almost did not read the second one because I was certain it was the same one with a different episode title. However, I pushed through and enjoyed the episode. That one needed a little more creativity for the beginning, otherwise the entire teleplay was entertaining and at times emotional and/or funny. I recommend All About Nikki: The Fabulous First Season to readers of plays, young adult books and sitcom watchers.

The author provided a copy of the book for review purposes.

Jennifer Coissiere
APOOO BookClub

Pick up a copy in paperback or for your e-reader today!