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  • Obama Gives a Pass on Medical Marijuana

    President Obama takes a significant step towards legalizing marijuana by issuing a new policy on users and dealers of medical marijauna. I don’t partake and have never partaken, so I don’t have a dog in the race. But I hear alot about the benefits of smoking dope and often wonder what the legalization of the…

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  • Gina Macauley on Dunbar Village

    Gina Macauley of What About Our Daughter.Com — God Bless Her — is completely batshit. More than a little uptight, deluded with a magnificent ego and a talent for manufacturing outrage with crazy headlines, she could find “obsfucation and misdirection” in a ham sandwich, and probably has.  Sharp like a needle stuck in a block…

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  • Domestic Violence Awareness Month… for Men

    I’ve written about having been the victim of domestic abuse and this is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. So I’m grateful that Sherrilyn Ifill got the ball rolling, even if I disagree with her take. It’s an emotional issue that seems to have touched all of us in one way or another. But Ifill lets her…

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  • Mike Tyson on Oprah: Oy.

    I watched Mike Tyson sit on Oprah Winfrey’s couch knowing no good could come of it. Oprah has rocks for brains and Mike Tyson is like Bigger Thomas: a terribly confused black man who defaults to his worst instincts, despite knowing better, despite his best intentions. Tyson sat on the couch looking like he could…

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  • Chris Rock vs. Regina Kimbell

    Word on the street is that Chris Rock is being sued for stealing Regina Kimbell’s idea for Good Hair, and at least one of the ever-growing crop of “black female empowerment” blogs thinks that this is just the latest salvo in the war against black female creativity. Seriously. I sh*t you not. (Judge for yourself…

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  • Castrate Roman Polanski

    It is time for the implemenation of forcible castration of pedophiles. Finally, the Pols get something right besides haute cuisine. Recidivism rates are low for perverts, but the numbers are unreliable. I don’t know how a child rapist can be rehabilitated, and I don’t want to know. There are some sins that can’t be forgiven by…

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  • Ashley 'A. J.' Jewell: Death By Reality Fame?

    Singer Kandi Burruss’ fiance’  Ashley “A. J” Jewell was killed this weekend at a strip club and gratefully there is an arrest, but it got me to thinking that nothing good ever comes of being on a reality show. You may recall that Burruss and her fiance’ were together when they started out on The…

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  • Chris Rock's "Good Hair"

    The Chris Rock documentary “Good Hair” is coming out soon to a theatre near you, but already there is significant buzz about it. It’s about the relationship that women —specifically black women —- have with thier hair. I didn’t really encounter hair weaves until I was in my early 20s and tried to run my…

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  • 10 Things You Could Learn from Bobby Brown

    I stopped watching music channels a long time ago but could not resist tuning in to VH1’s Behind The Music: Bobby Brown. Brown has been vilified for everything, but in total, he didn’t seem like such a bad guy. Just a good guy who made some bad choices. Celebrities make crappy role models, unless they…

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  • Eric Brewer for Mayor

    East Cleveland mayor Eric Brewer is alleged to be a transvestite and that may be why he needs to be re-elected mayor of East Cleveland, Ohio. I say “alleged” because he has refused to authenticate the photos. But trust me. It’s him. You may have just heard of Eric because of pictures that have become…

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