Envy Is the Illusion

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary     January 24, 2012 By Perry Redd     Have you heard the latest buzzword?  It’s more akin to an allegation.  As we bear witness to the Republicans vying for the opportunity to face incumbent Barack Obama for the presidency, “The Politics of Envy” has become [...]

The New Kent State

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary November 22, 2011 By Perry Redd   You might find this extreme. You may strongly disagree with this statement, but you’ll eventually agree that suppression of free speech is a common theme in the police reactions to Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests nationwide and those [...]

Depiction of Contradiction

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary October 4, 2011 By Perry Redd This past week, the news cycle has been fast and furious.  If you’ve blinked, then you’ve missed something.  Not necessarily the stories, but the truth.  The actors have said one thing, then have done another.  They’ve stood on principle—or [...]

How to Honor King

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary August 30, 2011 By Perry Redd The latest rift in America isn’t the proper amount to cut from the nation’s budget, nor is it the Tea Party’s attack on anyone who isn’t them.  The latest rift is between the very people who need not be [...]

Immigration In Your Back Yard

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary July 5, 2011 By Perry Redd What are you all going to do when you find that the thing you hate is in your back yard? What I’ve come to learn is that with conservative ideology, many of the social and economic positions taken, like [...]

The Court Has Lost Your Mind

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary June 28, 2011 By Perry Redd     The Supreme Court has lost your mind…once again.  For all of those “family values” conservatives, you’ve been shucked!  On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a California law banning sales or rentals of violent video games [...]

The Great Defender of Fox Values

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary April 7, 2011 By Perry Redd What ‘cha gonna do with him?  He’s the analyst you don’t want to hate, but he makes it so damned hard not to!  Only the few, the proud, the Fox-inians can understand him.  Why?  Because he says the things [...]

The Very Recent War On Us

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary February 22, 2010 By Perry Redd I wrote a song a few years back that I never really warmed up to, until I recorded it.  It was written while I sat behind the walls of a federal prison.  It was fueled by the reality of, [...]

Losing At Home

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary January 24, 2010 By Perry Redd Are we there yet?  Have we rebounded from the downed economy of two years ago?  Our dear President tells us that we’ve made leaps and bounds from where we were.  We gained 100,000 new jobs last month, we had [...]

Controlled Amnesia

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary January 4, 2010 By Perry Redd Now that the Republicans own one chamber of Congress and weakened the majority of the Democrats in the Senate, they are cocky as hell.  They want to reverse all of the gains that the Democrats have made in the [...]