Dear fellow 9 to 5ers,
“You’ll get run out the industry for this!”
That’s what a colleague told me recently. Until then it’d never crossed my mind that KNOCK THE HUSTLE: How to save Your Job and Your Life from Corporate America (August 31, 2005) would get me blackballed from my industry. But over the last few [...]

A colleague recently asked me what I thought about Adidas merging with Reebok meant for Nike and the shoe world. Here’s my response.
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Hmmm…. Adidas and Reebok? To be real with you, I’m not impressed. And to not pull any punches lemme just say that this merger is the culmination of a lot of missteps [...]

Now, don’t get me wrong… Venezuela’s government is far from being the most democratic and just and efficient government in the world, but I might have to be on Chavez’s side on this one.
Since when did we start decided what news is fit to print in other countries? How does one government have the power [...]

“If someone said he was the best African-American CEO, he would be miserable. He wants to be the best CEO.”
—Geoffrey Canada, on college friend
and American Express CEO Ken Chenault USA Today, April 25, 2005
When I first read that quote I was happy for Mr. Chenault, proud even. I’ve been a big fan of execs [...]

Terri Schiavo. Jessica Lunsford. Steriods. Martha Stewart’s homecoming. Fiddy and The Game beefing… These have been the top stories of the last few weeks. It makes you wonder if with the countless cable outlets and radio talk stations, the bazillion bloggers, and print mob, why isn’t there more diversity of news topics.
I mean, I feel [...]

I was in a KFC the other day; they were having a sale on “snackers”—these mini- chicken sandwiches—2 for $1. (They’re basically the chicken equivalent of a white castle slider just a little bigger: a chicken strip or some cut of breaded chicken breast on a little bun with lettuce and some type of special [...]

This is a legit story, which is even worse…
‘Baywatch’ actress arrested in protest over electric cars
Associated PressMar. 15, 2005 07:15 AM
BURBANK, Calif. - A “Baywatch” actress and another woman were arrested in Burbank during a protest to save about 70 GM electric cars from destruction.Alexandra Paul played Lieutenant Stephanie Holden on the TV series. She [...]

Americans just love us some constructs….
We build boxes for people to fit in like they’re shoes or gerbils. We put folks in boxes so we can identify them, control them, separate them… separate ourselves from them. Black. White. Beautiful. Ugly. Urban. Suburban…
Don’t get me wrong… Differences are beautiful. God made everyone different for a reason… [...]

Well, well… what do we have here:
HOT 97 in NYC (I’ve been gone 5 years and i still miss manhattan) drops a joint called “tsunami song”: The kids who’ve been oprhaned by the floods will be sold into sex slavery… Asians need to shut up… People laughing at the death and destruction…It’s a foul and [...]

Well…
Over 30 Mil tuned in for American Idol just to watch on car wreck after another. Laurence Fishburne was right when he said “American Idle”… We are a sad bunch, aren’t we? Meanwhile with minimal fanfare, MLK, Jr.’s B-day has come and gone again. Personally, I don’t feel any freer today than I felt [...]

When I read this article, i thought the USA was the only one with a crappy foreign policy against Haiti… It seems, our brethren up north have been following our lead… or have we been following theirs?
http://www.rabble.ca/news_full_story.shtml?x=36296
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Canada’s role in Haiti is ‘destructive’
by Yves Engler
January 13, 2005
January 1 was the 201st birthday of the first [...]

A little something for the culturally-inclined among us…
We are all Documentarians
By: Hadji Williams
Back in 1999, I taught a college class on marketing and pop culture. I asked every student to bring in their favorite CD because music is a major gateway into a people’s culture; and in order to market to a people you have [...]

It’s amazing, this whole tsunami aid thing… Countries are actually fighting to see who’s the most chaitable. The US went from 35 to 350 Million. Japan has pledged somewhere around 600 million plus, Australia’s giving… The UK is pledge some insane amount… Athletes and entertainers are recording songs, donating game checks, salaries, socks, canned goods, [...]

I just saw an amussing comic on the tsunami relief effort:
It featured a helicopter labeled, “US concern” caring a care package labeled, “relief” to Sri lanka… in the foreground stood starving Sudanese folks watching the aid package go by. It got me thinking: What’s our (the world’s) deal with helping Africa? Or maybe it’s as [...]

When I heard that Shirley Chisolm died the other day, to be perfectly honest, I thought she was an old R&B singer or a Gospel singer… Maybe I was thinking of Shirely Ceasar. I know it’s a shame not to know that Mrs. Chidolm was the first black woman elected to congress and the first [...]