As we get older we have a tendency to look at some of the things we read as kids, in my case AllHipHop.com and SLAM magazine, the same way we look at professional wrestling. Their rampant typos and strictly Q&A style interviews may not have been the marks of professional journalism but there was a …
As a bonus to “To Catch a Set Up” I wanted to share my favorite piece of “fan” mail I’ve ever received. If you don’t like my writing you’ll love this: “Mr. Poinsette, You are the most abysmally ignorant and racist black charlatan I’ve ever encountered in Oregon! You embrace false Afrocentric “history” while dismissing …
Despite Mark Zuckerberg and advertisers’ claims that all data sharing on Facebook is benign, I never really bought it. Giving companies access to members’ extensive personal data can lead to abuse. After getting two pieces of highly personal spam on Monday I’ve become much more wary of the practice. Spam is relatively easy to pick …
Back in high school my friends and I used to go to Blockbuster (Remember those?) and rent movies. Usually we would go for quirky and often stupid films, while making fun of any number of ridiculous titles available. The still undisputed champion remains “The Watermelon Heist”, a black comedy flick that would make you respect …
I’m not a programmer so my vision of a Black Power video game where you can free Mumia or save Fred Hampton won’t be happening soon. Neither will my Wii accessible “Martin Luther King’s Marcher”. My best hope for a black video game that doesn’t primarily involve sports or music will most likely come whenever …
If I just immigrated to the US, didn’t speak English and turned on CNN I’d think John Boehner was the President. The man is unyielding no matter how ridiculous his positions are and beats you to death with the same few catch phrases in every speech. He’s Benjamin Netanyahu (Why don’t you click your “indefensible” …
There’s a scene in the movie EuroTrip where a man unwittingly gets stuck in a sexual contraption that resembles a torture device from Star Wars and he can’t pronounce the safe word to escape. I sympathize every time I turn on CNN and watch debt ceiling analysis. In this case, the safe word is probably …
Murdoch Has Gamed American Politics Every Bit as Thoroughly as Britain’s | Common Dreams. This has nothing to do with the ideological positions of entities like Fox News or the Wall Street Journal. Just check out what Murdoch’s lobbying has allowed him to do: “But Murdoch kept at the latter fight, continuing to push for …
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