When I look at Michelle Obama, it’s often like looking in the mirror. If she’d been a little closer to my age, I probably would have run into her at some point growing up in Chicago. And when I hear her described as the quintessential Angry Black Bitch (not to be confused with blogger ABB, [...]
Adam Nagourney premised on the idea that the mere existence of Obama should immediately ameliorate centuries of race conflict. Full Version Around midnight on July 16, New York Times chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney received a terse e-mail from Barack Obama’s press office. The campaign was irked by the Times’ latest poll and Nagourney and [...]
Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR). The game is currently published by Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro. It was derived from miniature wargames with a [...]
Obama voted—a parliamentary error, Obama says—to block funding for a child-welfare facility in Hendon’s district. Hendon rose and criticized Obama for the vote. The two men became embroiled in a yelling match on the Senate floor that looked as if it might become physical; they were separated by Courtney Nottage, then the chief of staff [...]
I’ll go on record as saying that abortion is icky. Okay, it’s a lot more complicated than that, but if I were a woman and got pregnant, I’d want to carry the baby to term. And if a girl I was sleeping with got pregnant, I’d want to rearrange my life to make it possible [...]
What a sad thing that such a great man, so deserving of the presidency, would loose an election to catchy phrases. It still bewilders me how stupid people were that Bush 3rd term stuck on him in 2008, and in 2000 they made “Clinton’s 3rd term” stick…
By DAVID BROOKS Published: July 22, 2008 On the front page of Sunday’s Times, Gretchen Morgenson described Diane McLeod’s spiral into indebtedness, and now a debate has erupted over who is to blame. Some people emphasize the predatory lenders who seduced her with too-good-to-be-true credit lines and incomprehensible mortgage offers. Here was a single mother [...]
The notion of ‘normal’ is part of our collective conscious. We, as a group of people tend to believe that there are certain things which are good and superior as compared to the others we refer to as ‘bad’ which is akin to ugly and inferior. Color of skin is one of those areas where [...]
to paraphrase something the Joker says to Batman, “The Dark Knight” has rules, and they are the conventions that no movie of this kind can escape. The climax must be a fight with the villain, during which the symbiosis of good guy and bad guy, implicit throughout, must be articulated. The end must point forward [...]
Looks like Barack Obama cannot make everybody happy these days. Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson tore into Obama with comments he thought were off-air. However the video was presented on the O’Reilly Factor show on FoxNews, July 9th 2008. Drudge broke the story earlier in the day. So what did Jackson say? In the video [...]
