Are you afraid to go to the grocery store?

Are you afraid to see a lone young white male amongst a diverse crowd?

What doesn’t make sense is that Hillary Clinton lost, so we were supposed to be safe, right?

If he had lost, there would be active shooters wherever non-whites and women gathered. Those were Trump’s own words. As if you forgot.

So why have disaffected white males continued to turn our gathering places slick with blood?

Perhaps there is an answer but certainly not a solution…Stochastic terrorism.

“The use of mass communications to stir up random lone wolves to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable,” states Daily Kos.

“The person who actually plants the bomb or assassinates the public official is not the stochastic terrorist, they are the ‘missile’ set in motion by the stochastic terrorist. The stochastic terrorist is the person who uses mass media as their means of setting those ‘missiles’ in motion,” continued Daily Kos.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's August 1-3
appearance at a Southeast Asian foreign ministers' conference occurred
alongside his rival Chinese and Russian counterparts, with all three
trying to woo Thailand's authoritarian government which is shopping
for foreign weapons and inviting business investments.

During his three-day visit, Mr. Pompeo discussed with Thai and
regional ministers the U.S.-China trade war, denuclearization of North
Korea, disputes in the South China Sea and other concerns.

He told Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai, "to maintain the sanctions
that spurred diplomacy with North Korea, to speak out against Chinese
coercion in the South China Sea, to advocate for the voluntary, safe
and dignified return of the Rohingya to their homeland [Myanmar], and
to confront Iranian aggression."

After shaking hands with Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, Mr. Pompeo
tweeted that the two men discussed "ways to advance democracy" and
regional issues.

Sat, Aug 3, 11am-7:30pm, MPACC Box Park, 925 Mt. Vernon Ave.
From 11am to 3:30pm, workshops will take place next door to the park, at 905 Mt. Vernon Ave., inside of the OSU African American and African Studies Community Extension Center. Complimentary lunch will be provided to workshop attendees with pre-registration. Space is limited. Register now at: sites.google.com/view/cbuswgfest/home.

The upcoming festival also boasts a live concert, beginning at 4:30pm, with a brief talk and signing by Syleena Johnson about her new book The Weight is Over: My Journey to Loving My Body from the Outside In. The first 50 workshop registrants will receive a free copy of the book and can have it signed by Johnson (must pre-register and attend the workshop). The live concert will feature local performers Shad Jones, The Tryangles, Christina Myles, Dr. E, Chris Brown and the WGFest Band, and, of course, a breathtaking headlining performance by Syleena Johnson.

The comedian George Carlin liked to marvel at oxymorons like "jumbo shrimp" and "military intelligence." Now, as the race for the Democratic presidential nomination intensifies, reporters and pundits at corporate media outlets are escalating their use of a one-word political oxymoron—"moderate."

As a practical matter, in the routine lexicon of U.S. mass media, "moderate" actually means pro-corporate and reliably unwilling to disrupt the dominant power structures. "Moderate" is a term of endearment in elite circles, a label conferred on politicians who won't rock establishment boats.

"Moderate" sounds so much nicer than, say, "enmeshed with Wall Street" or "supportive of the military-industrial complex."

"Moderate" sounds so much nicer than, say, "enmeshed with Wall Street" or "supportive of the military-industrial complex."