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PHOTO: Word, Son?
The looks say it all after South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson called the President a liar during his health care address. Particularly outdone is Speaker of the House Pelosi, who looks like one of her grandkids just did their business on the living room rug.
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PHOTO: The Element of Surprise
White House photographer Peter Souza captures a shot of Sasha Obama prowling around the Oval Office as her dad, President Obama, finishes up some paperwork.
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It Be Like That, Plax
Robert Littal of Black Sports Online feels as though Plaxico Burress is catching a raw deal, and outlines ten facts that are germane in the incident and why he feels the two years in jail seems too harsh a penalty. While I think he makes a few fair points, I have to disagree with Mr.…
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Have You Driven Obama Lately?
In a recent article for NEW YORK, Jennifer Senior discusses new media rock star, President Barack Obama, and the sheer volume of information that the White House delivers and the media culture that facilitates our insatiable appetite for it. Writes Senior: [H]e’s the first president who has grasped the possibilities of today’s high-velocity, high-density, highly…
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He Made Us Dance
Michael made us dance.That is an often-ignored fact as we try to grapple with the phenomenon that was Michael Jackson. For 80 percent of his life, he wasn’t merely famous. He was a megastar. Indeed, he rose to almost inconceivable heights of stardom, into such rarefied space that it could only be inhabited by the…
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Relax, Father’s Day Isn’t Mother’s Day
The trick to shopping for a Father’s Day present is to understand that this isn’t Mother Day. Unlike the second Sunday in May, which is prepped for and marketed months in advance, replete with brunches and church services and graduation exercises, the third Sunday in June is a day when dad gets breakfast in bed;…
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Cover Your Eyes: Obama "Swagga" Segment Not Fit for TV
Congrats CNN, on your “swagga” segment FAIL. We all know that mainstream news can be stiff by nature and necessity, but that’s a reality that exists because, more often than not, attempts to be ‘hip’ and relevant tend to fall flat on their face. It’s pretty clear by his on camera demeanor that correspondent T.J. Holmes was…
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The End of the Age of Douchebags?
ESQUIRE’s Stephen Marche has written a hilarious piece detailing the end of the “douchebag” era: The departure of W., that backslapping, nickname-calling, know-nothing M.B.A. failure, is the cue for… the expense-account-abusing, bottle-service-ordering, Ayn Rand-quoting embarrassments of the American banking sector: Your relevance is dwindling, your presence no longer required. [W]e are seeing the return of…
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Arizona Commencement Snub Treats POTUS Like a Nutty Professor
According to Dawn Teo over at HUFFINGTON POST, Arizona State University does not think President Obama, one of its 2009 commencement speakers, is worthy of an honorary degree. The university’s Media Relations Director Sharon Keeler said the selection process for honorary degrees is conducted on an independent basis and that the selection committee was not…
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Since When Does The Supreme Court Stay Hush Hush?
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the appeal for a new trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the ex-Black Panther serving a life sentence for killing a police officer in Philadelphia in 1981. He was convicted by a jury made of ten whites and two Blacks in 1982. Abu-Jamal’s lawyers’ latest appeal was filed on the…
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