Rachel Maddow’s Blowout
Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections, and observations from the Beached White Male Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections and observations from the Beached White Male Blowout by Rachel Maddow by Ken Kemp – Posted: December 3, 2019 Rachel Maddow is a cable television talking head who is a fierce and relentless critic of Donald Trump. In many ways, […]
Open Letter to Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota)
Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections, and observations from the Beached White Male Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections and observations from the Beached White Male Open Letter to Senator John Thune (R – South Dakota) by Ken Kemp – Written August 30, 2018 Author’s Note: This letter was written before talk of Impeachment got serious. Since the Inauguration, […]
Soul of America
Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections, and observations from the Beached White Male Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections and observations from the Beached White Male Jon Meachem has given us a worthy contemplation on the state of the nation. He calls it, The Soul of America – The Battle for our Better Angels. Meachem is not the only […]
Introducing the Beached White Male
Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections, and observations from the Beached White Male Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections and observations from the Beached White Male OK – I’m stealing this phrase, “Beached White Male,” admittedly, from Newsweek Magazine. On April 17, 2011, the cover story featured the photograph of a middle-aged, graying white male in a black suit, […]
Theon Hill: Race and Rhetoric
Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections, and observations from the Beached White Male Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections and observations from the Beached White Male Theon Hill: Race and Rhetoric by Ken Kemp – Posted: February 15, 2018 Podcast Show Notes Theon Hill, Ph.D. This is the inaugural podcast for the Beached White Male. Ken interviews Dr. Theon […]
The Donald and Amway (The American Way)
Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections, and observations from the Beached White Male Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections and observations from the Beached White Male Trumpism as a movement takes me back to my Amway days – back in the 1990s. Trump, more than anything else, is the embodiment of that cartoonish caricature of the American business paradigm. […]
Reflections on Larycia Hawkins, PhD
Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections, and observations from the Beached White Male Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections and observations from the Beached White Male Author’s Note: I wrote this piece back in February 2016. It was virtually contemporaneous to the events that led to Dr. Hawkins departure from Wheaton College. In April this year, 2019, I had the […]
Political Correctness
Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections, and observations from the Beached White Male Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections and observations from the Beached White Male One of the prime targets in the current Presidential campaign is “political correctness” or “PC” (caps intentional). The aspiring politician will assert: “I am certainly not bound by the constraints of political correctness…” […]