Farai forwarded me the following article:
“I went to an event in Philly on Friday, November 19 at the Asian Arts Initiative, an Asian American “community arts” space, entitled “Changing the Face of the Game: Asian Americans in Hip-Hop.” I cannot pretend I didn’t already know what I was getting myself [...]

A woman paid $50,000 to have her cat cloned! Do people have nothing better to spend their money on?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/12/23/MNGM3AGB391.DTL

On this fine day, Christmas Eve eve (one more shopping day left!), Timothy Noah, who writes “Chatterbox” for Slate, offers a good explanation for Bush’s Bushisms and his inability to answer questions by the press. What I find most interesting is that Noah finally calls out what allows Bush to not only ignore questions about [...]

Haven’t posted in a minute… just been swamped writing and working–like most of you to be sure. Anyway, here’s my two cents before christmas:
In Washington DC all hell broke loose because the taxpayers of that town had the crazy idea that the Montreal Expos-turned-Washington Nationals should actually foot the bill for most, if not all [...]

Watching BBC News, their top story was Bush conceding that the insurgency in Iraq is, well, affected things there. Holy Mother of God! Really? I thought the totally liberal media was just ignoring all the good stories in Iraq in favor of bloods and guts and things exploding. Stunned at Bush’s admission, I figured I’d [...]

I just saw the new movie about Alfred Kinsey and I highly recommend seeing it. Heh heh, although it’s not a good date movie (trust me, you won’t want to get it on with your date aferwards), the film gives a great account of how in the dark the American public was about sex.
It’s [...]

(From Newsmax.com) BILOXI, Miss. - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should be replaced sometime in the next year, Sen. Trent Lott says.
“I’m not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld,” Lott told the Biloxi Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. “I don’t think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.”
If I’ve learned one thing about what makes the [...]

Alright, here’s something that’s a bit more relevant. Pennsylvania parents are suing local schools that have added “intelligent design” to the science curriculum.
What is happening to the state of education in this country?? I was a biology major in college and I’ll be the first to admit that the theory of evolution is exactly [...]

I am so glad that freakin trial is over (for now)… can we stop wasting media real estate with coverage of Scott Peterson’s murder trial?

NEW ORLEANS — The Louisiana Supreme Court has given a judge a six-month suspension for wearing blackface makeup, handcuffs and a jail jumpsuit to a Halloween party.
Judge Timothy Ellender will lose all of his pay during the suspension. That totals more than $50,000.
Ellender, who is white, said the costumes worn by him and his wife [...]

“WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (UPI) –
The U.S. Defense Department reportedly held simulations to determine the effectiveness of an attack on Iran, the Middle East Newsline reported Sunday
The Atlantic Monthly revealed the Pentagon held simulations of a U.S. military strike on Iranian bases and nuclear facilities. The war games also included a ground invasion.”
Well, practice makes perfect [...]

Seattle Weekly: News: Is Bush the Antichrist? by Tim Appelo
Rich Lang, a local minister here in Seattle (right in my own neighborhood of Ballard, no less) is seriously making that very claim. He doesn’t mean this in the literal End-Of-The-World fire and brimstone sense, but he makes a compelling case that George W. Bush [...]

I remember one person commenting on this blog that the Guardian was full of limp-wristed liberals (I chuckled at that one, too), but I figure it’s worth another snarling comment to post this.
The number one man of Italy, Mr. Berlusconi himself, has been cleared of corruption charges today.
In the Guardian:
“A court in Milan [...]

His name is Howard Dean, and he’s running for Democratic National Committee Chairman.
Now when conservative like for example, Sean Hannity, says, “Please elect Howard Dean…” he’s obviously being facetious. Hannity and many others believe that Dean is the kind of candidate that scares Middle America and thus will always lose elections. However, it’s [...]

In the latest example of close-minded censorship disguised as “protection,” Alabama State Representative Gerald Allen wants to bury books that include “positive depictions of homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle.” Allen means books like Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” and Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”
Setting aside the obvious issue of censorship, let’s examine [...]