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Sotomayor is President's Choice for Supreme Court
Obama to Nominate Sotomayor for Supreme Court President Obama likes making history. The Associated Press is reporting that Obama will nominate Sonia Sotomayor, a US Circuit Judge to succeed Supreme Court Justice David Souter on the bench upon his retirement. Sotomayor, 54, is the first Hispanic to be nominated for a seat on the high court. Should the nomination…
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Obama Stumps GOP With Sotomayor
President Obama hit a home run by nominating Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court because the GOP cannot really oppose her on the so-called “merits” without, to be candid, looking ridiculous. Consider this: Sotomayor is from poor working-class roots. Her father died when she was 9. She worked her way to and through the nation’s…
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Last of the Cold Warriors Take Each Other On –Diktats and All
In a strange way, Powell and Cheney come from the same place; as two important members of the first Bush administration, both made their mark as part of the team that declared victory in the Cold War. As more prominent players in Bush II, the clashed at that Cold War persists to this moment. Powell…
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Citigroup Exec Goes Knucklehead Route, Has Child with Mistress
Citigroup Exec Goes Knucklehead Route, Has Child with Mistress The New York Daily News reports that Richard Parsons, who has been in enough of a professional pickle trying to get the Citigroup’s life together has apparently found enough time in his schedule for an extramarital dalliance with model/philanthropist MacDella Cooper that resulted in the birth of…
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Congress' Foreclosure Fix Helps ONE Person, Gets an F MINUS
One Homeowner Down, Only 399,999 to Go ProPublica reports a baffling statistic regarding Congress’ plan to help homeowners facing foreclosure. The “Hope for Homeowners” plan, launched last summer, was set to help 400,000 homeowners from joining the ranks of the dispossessed. To date, it has managed to help just one homeowner. ONE. How does that even happen? That’s…
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Nike's New LeBron/Kobe Puppet Commercials = Basically Amazing
Voiced by David Alan Grier and Kenan Thompson—who skyrocketed in The Buzz’s book with this career-salvaging voice-over tour de force—the ads feature Kobe Bryant and LeBron James puppets who room together. The ads are hilarious and harken back to Chris Rock’s Li’l Penny Days before Penny Hardaway just became plain Anfernee. Bravo, Nike. Bravo.
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555-Pound Teen Taken into Custody, Mom Arrested for Medical Neglect
Mom Gets Parenting FAIL, Arrested for Medical Neglect of Quarter-Ton Son From Baltimore, Maryland, CNN reports that a South Carolina mother who was wanted for failure to appear in family court and the medical neglect of her 555-pound son has been arrested. The boy and his mother were spotted at near a laundromat in Baltimore where the two were apprehended—the mother…
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At Morehouse, Giving Better than Receiving: Student Shooter to get Degree
At Morehouse, to Give Better than Receiving: Student Shooter to get Degree, Victim Will Not A Morehouse student who shot another student is on his way to receiving his degree while his victim has left the campus only three bullets richer according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Joshua Brandon Norris is catching a wrist slap for…
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Nigeria: Hundreds Feared Dead in Military Action
Hundreds of Civilians Feared Dead in Nigerian Military Action Amnesty International has received reports hundreds of Nigerian civilians may have been massacred in a government attempt to rid the oil producing Niger delta region of rebel enclaves Reuters reports. The government has denied this claim, saying that no civilians were harmed or displaced. A military spokesman…
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