Sarah Palin has a show. So why not?

Harry Reid's recent summation of his tight Senate race with Tea Party upstart Sharron Angle reminds me a lot of one of former DC Mayor Marion Barry's most famous pronouncements

Right now, black politicians are all over the news for misdeeds. Is it a conspiracy or evidence of real power?

As happy as we are for the nation to get its yearly reminder that black people do exist in the context of American history, there’s a growing list of characters that has us harking back to Zora Neale Hurston’s famous words: “All my skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.” Indeed, while we love our own, we sure do dream of erasing a few of them from the history books. Some are politicos, others are pop culture figures, but they all share one common attribute: They’re embarrassing.