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John Mayer Makes Fewer Black Friends After Playboy Interview
The Black Snob has a nice Cliff’s Notes version of John Mayer’s most recent Playboy interview. You definitely should read the article in full before spazzing out one way or the other, but here’s an abridged version of the chit chat that has the Twitternets going nuts. On having a “hood pass:” Someone asked me…
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Ali Met with Klan Before Thrilla in Manila
Shortly before his third and final fight with Joe Frazier, Muhammed Ali met with members of the KKK, apparently at the behest of the Nation of Islam Before his third fight with Frazier, Ali was at his most elevated, symbolically as well as in the ring. Hard to imagine when these days he elicits universal…
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Chicago Experiences Minor Earthquake
A minor earthquake rumbled just outside of Chicago early this morning The 3.8-magnitude quake could be felt as far away as Ohio and Missouri, said Julie Dutton, a geophysicist with the agency. No damage or injuries were reported, she said, although the USGS did receive 10,000 reports from people who felt the quake. The agency…
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Harlem Globetrotters on Ice
The Washington Generals got mollywhopped on ice by the Harlem Globetrotters. They should probably consider quitting. Players wore ice cleats over their shoes, headbands outside their hockey helmets, and no one on either team took off his warmups, even though it was warm and sunny by February-in-New-York standards. Perhaps disappointingly, no one commandeered a Zamboni.…
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Tweets from the Storm
Bob Cesca, aka @bobcesca_go, noticed a curious thing as the snow begins to pile up I don’t see a lot of anti-socialism teabaggers out there plowing the streets themselves. Zap.
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Family Affair: "Serious About Adopting from Haiti? Start Now"
A bit on Haitian adoption from KJ Dell’Antonia over on Double X The zeitgeist is wrong. Writers for the New York Times, Newsweek, others: all wrong. Anyone with the money, spiritual wherewithal, time, and vocation to adopt a child from Haiti should start now. There were 380,000 orphaned and abandoned children in Haiti even before…
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Listen Up! "$7.2B for Broadband Largely Unallocated"
From NPR’s Morning Edition: The Obama administration’s stimulus package includes $7.2 billion to extend broadband Internet access to parts of the country where it’s not widely available. The government has given out just a fraction of that money so far — and some applicants for the funding say major telecom companies are trying to block…
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Youngest Gitmo Detainee Heads to Trial
Is there such thing as being too young to be a combatant in a war? That question is being raised as Omar Khadr gets set to stand trial for allegedly throwing a grenade and killing a soldier in Afghanistan at the age of fifteen. From The Washington Post The struggle against al-Qaeda has thrown up…
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Bush "Miss Me Yet?" Billboard No Hoax
Somebody in Minnesota have had enough of Washington and decided to express their frustrations via billboard. Internet chatter had led to speculation that it might be an urban myth — nothing more than clever digital trickery spreading via the Web. But our friend Bob Collins at Minnesota Public Radio assures us he’s seen it with…
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