While sites like YouTube are making history by catering to the mass craving to create and distribute amateur video, regular old television— a decade into the internet era— is still pretending the web is basically a form of Sunday newspaper: mostly good for advertising and reprinting schedules. Sorry but American Idol voting is the very [...]

We black folk are on the mainstreamed web, at last, because we likewise have been completely mainstreamed.

I didn’t know there was any West Wing beyond the seasons featuring Latin-spewing over-the-top Martin Sheen as President Bartlet. Apparently there was and it included a President Obama, or anyway a TV equivalent played by Jimmy Smits. If this is all true, and I think maybe it is, then there was never a need for [...]

On Oscar night, while most of the country was doing its own Hot Or Not review of the Hollywood red carpet people, a staple of Sunday evening entertainment, 60 Minutes, came out with one of its hardest-hitting episodes of the year.
Scott Pelley’s look at the ludicrously suspect indictment, trial and conviction of former Alabama Governor [...]

If you missed Tuesday’s Democratic debate in Ohio and then looked at a collection of headlines, you would think it had been an all out catfight between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. (Excuse the expression— I don’t want to be accused of sexism, maybe I should call it a decidedly manly term like a “battle” [...]

After years of recruiting only black athletes to play football, some of the nation’s historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have begun recruiting more white athletes, posing questions again about the continuing role and relevance of the HBCUs.
The Washington Post details what it calls a new “trend” among HBCUs, diving into the issue of whether [...]

Major avant-garde dude Robbe-Grillet, who died this week, leaving the living to puzzle over his novels. Ha!

Asked by Tavis about the fact that, in deciding who will be the Democratic party’s nominee for president, the party’s superdelegates may fail to reflect the will of the people, Hillary talks about how great it is, actually, because the superdelegates “know the candidates better” than the voters do anyway, that she’s worked really closely [...]

The New York Philharmonic will arrive in North Korea this Monday, as reported in the Los Angeles Times, and perform the following day for an elite crowd that might include the country’s dictator, Kim Jong Il. The performance, which will be broadcast on state television, has been steeped in controversy.
Supporters argue the performance will [...]

You, American, are a hybrid human being, an emissary of the future, love thyself!

Here’s a formula familiar to any news consumer in the West: suicide bomber plus dead and injured people plus the Middle East equals crazy religious fanaticism. So familiar is this formula that we don’t even think about it as something formulated but as merely observed reality. It appears with. numbing. regularity. Look at any batch [...]

Lori Gottlieb’s article “Marry Him!” in the March issue of the Atlantic Monthly has been causing quite the stir among late 20 and 30-something women. Gottlieb, who never married and is now raising a child on her own, makes the argument that women should stop being so damn picky while looking for Mr. Right and [...]

Obama likes it cushy. What? According to the LA Times’ Travel Blog, the Chicago dreamboat’s campaign has spent almost $300,000 more on luxury hotels than then Hill-Hills and almost $500,000 more than the McCainites. What’s going on Chi-Town? The Holiday Inn Express website’s “smart meter” calculates the amount of money each candidate would’ve saved if [...]

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Wisconsinites and Hawaiians are heading to the polls today. Of course we know it’s never a good thing to cover politics like a horse race. It just degrades the whole important process. That said, here they come spinning round the track, Wisconsin seeming suddenly a crucial leg in the race to the checkered flag, a [...]