May 2012
36 posts
R. Crumb's Comic Portrayal of the Life of Delta... →
Why Is Washington So Dysfunctional? →
We Eat Less Healthy Than We Think →
Confirmed: Watching FOX News Makes You Dumber!
From a recent Fairleigh Dickerson Study:
“However, the study concludes that media sources have a significant impact on the number of questions that people were able to answer correctly. The largest effect is that of Fox News: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer just 1.04 domestic questions correctly — a figure which is significantly worse...
How Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated the...
That’s the title of Jeffrey Toobin’s New Yorker masterpiece on the Roberts court and the Citizens United decision. Here’s how Slate describes it:
The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin this week revealed juicy bits from the Supreme Court’s deliberations as it considered Citizens United, the thunderous case in which the court allowed corporations and unions to spend...
Race & Ethnicity Maps by Metropolitian Area →
Hmmm... →
Fifty Years of Government Spending. Scary!!! →
GOP Heavyweight Blasts His Own Party
The Republican Party has drifted so far to the right and become so partisan in recent years that President Ronald Reagan wouldn’t even want to be a part of it, former Nebraska GOP senator Chuck Hagel told The Cable.
“Reagan would be stunned by the party today,” Hagel said in a long interview in his office at Georgetown University, where he now teaches. He also serves as...
Why I Use a Wired Keyboard And Buy Ink Jet Printer...
Maybe some of you can relate to this. When they first began advertising wireless keyboards and computer mice years ago I could not wait to cut the cords. I couldn’t wait to clear my desktop of the wires that always seemed to be tangled or in the way somehow. So I got myself an Apple wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse, and the rest is history. Well, uh, not so fast…
Although I liked...
Cornell Dupree – Rest In Peace
I mentioned a couple of times before that it seems that the Brits have a greater appreciation for Black music classics and Black musicians than folks in this country. To wit, I am always fascinated by the extensive obituaries their newspapers run on old Black musicians who may have only gotten a brief death notice in our papers, if that. Here’s the latest example.
...
WW II Bombers Over Arizona in HD →
Prof Henry Louis Gates: "It Gives Me... →
It's Hard To Believe Marvin Gaye Would be 73 Now... →
History...
Here’s a piece I ran across that really made me stop and think. Its a piece whose main focus is on photography, but its overriding message is one that has a much broader meaning for our society. See if you agree:
History is a story with no ending. You read it from the past to the present.
Then you make history.
Funny thing happened on the way to educating our country. We lost track...
Here's One For All You Basketball Junkies →
I Wish Our Mainstream Media Had The Guts To Say... →
White Music Stolen By Black People?
“To some degree… white people aren’t always lame. In fact, studies show that only about 35 percent of the white population is hopelessly uncool, compared to 27 percent of the black population.”
At the link is an, uh, interesting article whose headline immediately struck me as having been written by some White Power advocate. In fact, it was written by 3 Blacks. Some food for...
Don't Expect To See Cornel West At Any White House... →
Ever Wonder What Happened To Troubled Basketball...
HICKORY — Chris Washburn doesn’t have to go far to be reminded of the dark days when he was a 6-foot-11 addict wandering the streets of his hometown looking for drugs.
As Washburn sits in the shade behind his recently opened restaurant on the fringes of downtown Hickory, he is able to briefly flash the gap-toothed grin that was so familiar to fans of Atlantic Coast Conference and N.C....
April 2012
36 posts
Questlove on Obama Slow-Jamming the News →
Romney vs Obama in Speeches to College Students:... →
Holi is a wild celebration in India where people... →
You Be The Judge: Was Race a Factor in this Case?
LYONS, Ga. — Norman Neesmith was sleeping in his home on a rural farm road here in onion country when a noise woke him up.
He grabbed the .22-caliber pistol he kept next to his bed and went to investigate. He found two young brothers who had been secretly invited to party with an 18-year-old relative he had raised like a daughter and her younger friend. The young people were paired up in...
Accura Employs the 'Brown Paper Bag' Test
Conservative whites like to say that Blacks are overly obsessed with racism, and are too quick to cry discrimination in instances where their own failings are most often to blame. For all practical purposes, they argue, the era when color matter has passed.
Right!
From Time:
Carmaker Acura issued an apology Wednesday for a casting sheet published on TMZ that requested an African-American...
Computer Graphics Means That You Can't Believe... →
Failed Businessmen vs Dumb Jocks
Michelle Singletary has an excellent column in the Wash Post today discussing the financial problems of many pro athletes who find themselves bankrupt after earning millions more than the average citizen could ever dream of. The conventional wisdom tends to lay the blame for those financial woes on financially naive jocks who simply lived well beyond their means. But Michelle points out the other,...
