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  • Blog Noir: "I Just Remembered Chris Matthews Was White"

    Being something less than a postracialist, Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic just remembered Chris Mathews was white The “I forgot Obama was black” sentiment allows the speaker the comfort of accepting, even lauding, a black person without interrogating their invented truth. It allows the speaker a luxurious ignorance—you get to name people (this is what…

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  • Quick Hits: Clinton Makes Impassioned Plea for Haiti

    Billy Clint isn’t playing when it comes to rebuilding Haiti. Found this over on BBC Former US President Bill Clinton has made a renewed appeal for aid at a special session on Haiti at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Mr Clinton started by praising the people of Haiti who he said had behaved…

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  • Sorority Forgets Paddles to the Backside Aren't Sisterly

    The S G Rhos out of Rutgers are in some serious trouble after allegations of hazing that included eight days of starvation and multiple beatings. From the New York Post: The university suspended the Rutgers chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho, as did the sorority’s national organization in North Carolina, university spokesman Greg Trevor said last…

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  • Read/React: Obama's State of the Union Address

    Ready for some light reading? Here’s the whole enchilada from last night. Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Our Constitution declares that from time to time, the President shall give to Congress information about the state of our union. For two hundred and twenty years, our leaders have…

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  • Check It Out: Chris Matthews "Forgot" Obama Was Black

    MSNBC’s Chris Matthews attempts to give respect to the State of the Union and basically bungles it. Watch: Are we post-racial yet? Ta-Nehisi Coates doesn’t think so.

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  • Check It Out: Oxfam Gets Water to Haitians in Need

    Somewhere, Paul Shirley’s saying “Give me a break! They can’t be that thirsty.”

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  • POLL: State of the Union Address

    <a href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/2604470/” mce_href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/2604470/”>What will be the most-used phrase during tonight’s State of the Union address?</a><span style=”font-size:9px;” mce_style=”font-size:9px;”>(<a href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com” mce_href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com”>polling</a>)</span>

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  • Quick Hits: Apple Unveils iPad Tablet

    *Gasp* Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad today in San Francisco Like the iPhone, the iPad has a virtual keyboard. It is about half an inch thick, weighs 1.5 pounds, has a 9.7-inch display, and offers internal storage option capacities of 16GB, 32GB or 64GB. The device is powered by in-house custom silicon, a 1GHz A4…

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  • Elizabeth Edwards: John Can Be a Baby Daddy By Himself

    These are the kind fo allegations you kind of hope are true if, for no other reason, they would bring logical closure to a rather tawdry affair. Over on Jezebel, it’s being alleged that Elizabeth Edwards is leaving the guy a lot of people thought could be president who then proceeded to destroy that image…

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