By Richard Ray In July 2014, Conrad Roy, 18, killed himself. He was found dead in a Massachusetts parking lot of carbon Monoxide poisoning. Michelle Carter, then 17 was eventually charged with his death after she made incriminating statements to a classmate that she was responsible for his death and could have stopped it. […]
By Richard Ray The press is full of s***. I am not talking about fake political news. I am talking about the hypocrisy that they protect and contribute to while trying to shape narratives that they are fully complicit in controlling. More specifically I am referring to the indignation that the pundits on ESPN, […]
By Richard Ray: Death is almost always a sad occurrence. It is tragic when someone or even a beloved pet loses its life too soon. Yet, there are some occasions, when someone has lived a long full life, when the notice of their death, while momentarily may lead to a reaction of sadness, does […]
Shark week has become a sensation. Each year people get excited to see shows, primarily focused on Great Whites’ and the fear that their myth had previously had on us all. Jaws was a two hour movie in which the killer shark did not actually appear onscreen for over eighty minutes. Yet, just the idea […]
By Richard Ray: Emmett Till was born on July 25, 1941. 2017 would have marked his 76th Birthday. Past tense of course because Emmett never lived to see much beyond his fourteenth birthday. The Chicago native was murdered on August 28, 1955 while visiting relatives in Mississippi. He was killed because he was alleged […]
By Richard Ray It is perhaps one of life’s greatest ironies, that as technology has provided us with more ways to communicate with each other, effective and meaningful communication appears more and more difficult for people to attain. The internet and social media provide a platform. That platform has different meaning and significance to […]
By Richard Ray: Orenthal James “OJ” Simpson has been granted parole from the state of Nevada after serving nearly nine years from a conviction of armed robbery. His original sentence was 9-33 years and he will have served the minimum once he is released on October 1, 2017. I have two takes from OJ’s […]
By Richard Ray: We are all either one of two forms of delusional when we look in the mirror. We are either delusional in thinking we look much better than we really do or are delusional in thinking we look much worse than our reality. Within the two types of delusions there are varying […]
August Busch IV, 53, is the great-great grandson of Adolphus Busch, the founder of beer giant Anheuser-Busch. August was the last member of the Busch family to control the company before it was purchased by Belgium based InBev in a hostile takeover in 2008 for for an all cash valuation of $52 Billion Dollars. Recently, […]
By Richard Ray: No matter how hard I try, some Internet stories just leave me struggling to balance that my strong opinions do not in fact turn into judgment. Case in point, I have just read a story about a wife in the UK trying to reaffirm a message many of us have heard, […]
