Hope springs eternal.

You will excuse me if I am a little down right about now. I just watched my Iggles choke once again in an NFC Championship game to the stinking Cardinals. THE CARDINALS! A team that is right there with the Detroit Lions when it comes to being inept.

The coronation of his O ness aside, it's all pretty much gloom and doom right now in A-merry-ca. The economy is in the tank, we are in the middle of two wars, and once again, the Iggles won't be in the Super Bowl. I sure hope that they have the bridge police in full force on the Ben Franklin, because there are quite a few Philadelphians on suicide watch right about now.

But, as is always the case, it could be worse. And I actually think that there might be some good things to look forward to this coming year. S0 for this post I have compiled 30 things that I think you and I can look forward to in the year ahead. (I stole this idea from my latest issue of GQ Magazine)

1. The prosecution of Dick Cheney for war crimes.

2. More cute pics of those two little girls who now occupy the White House.

3. The upcoming flick about Che Guevara by Steven Soderbergh.

4. The next Jill Nelson book.

5. Smaller cars.

6. Real middle class tax cuts.

7. A unhinged FOX NEWS division.

8. LeBron and Kobe battle in the NBA finals.

9. More blogs less newspapers.

10. Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle. Forrest Whitaker, and Robert De NeNiro still making movies.

11. Fast food meals for less than $4.

12. Checking out what Michelle is wearing.

13. The Eagles finally making some off season moves.

14. Tiger is back.

15. Prince and Dr. Dre are dropping new albums.

16. Less reality shows on T.V.

17. Better public schools. (It can't get any worse)

18. Less conservative Judges. ( I am sure his O ness will get that right)

19. TV One keeps getting better.

20. Whenever we hear "Hail To The Chief" we will see a black man.

21. The next HBO series.

22. My cousins becoming more responsible because we can't make our President look bad.

23. More entrepreneurship.

24. More respect for A-merry-ca from the rest of the world.

25. A-merry-cans will be buying less things on credit.

26. It's a good time to dust up the old passort and do some serious traveling.

27. Speaking of traveling, gas prices should continue to go down.

28. There are still great Jamaican restaurants on the East Coast.

29. Chris' Jazz Cafe is still going strong here in Philly.

30. And last but certainly not least, this might be the year that I finally get a chance to meet Lark. (Stop laughing, if a black man can become POTUS, I can meet Lark Voorhies.)

Continue to enjoy your five day weekend black A-merry-ca.

Doing like "The Man".

Because I am tired of being accused of being a "race chaser", and because I have come to realize that I am like the party pooper at this post racial A -merry-ca party, I am not going to post about racism anywhere in the world tonight. Nope, I won't mention a word about the racist Prince, or the young black man who was shot in his own driveway because his whip was just too damn nice. I won't even blog about the ignorance that has been taking place in places where people should know better. No sir, not tonight, tonight the field is an eternal optimist; tonight I can see the rainbow. Tonight I want to blog about the plight of black people improving so much in A-merry-ca that whether there is racism or not it won't really mess with our mojo. We will just do like Jigga Man and brush that shit right off of our shoulders.

Tonight I want to blog about the plight of black people improving, but I can't. Not when people we elect to work on our and the countries' behalf do dumb ignorant things to mess it up for all of us. Tonight my ire is directed at one Sheila Dixon (that would be the nattily dressed lady you see in the picture above). The Mayor of the fine city of Baltimore. The land of crab cakes, Ray Lewis, and "The Wire". This seemingly unscrupulous blackguard (no pun intended) allegedly took over $15,000 in gifts that she was not entitled to. And she has been charged with 12 counts of felony thefts, fraud, perjury......let me stop, it sickens me to even write about yet another black poli-trick-ster betraying our trust. Then she allegedly even took gift cards which were meant for needy families.....*sigh*.

Oh field, come one now, you know the man always goes after the black pol. "The Man" does the same thing, but you never hear about it. Anyone who actually believes that "The Man" actually doing the same thing should excuse Ms. Dixon for this type of bullshit behavior, can let us know about it in the comments section. I don't think I want to even speak to that type of idiocy in this post. It's late, and I am pissed, so leaving a lucid post is hard enough as it is.

Oh well, I am going to get some sleep now. I need all the energy I can muster to chase my man "racism".