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My Gay Thanksgiving
A few months ago over dinner with my mother, I leaned across the table and asked, “Do you wish I was straight?” During a pause that seemed at least nine months pregnant, I felt myself dancing with the demon I thought had left my party long ago. Over the past 20 years, my mother has…
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DC Mystery: Where is Pam Butler?
Pam Butler and her boyfriend, Jose Rodriguez-Cruz, were supposed to treat her mother to a Valentine’s Day meal. Butler never showed. From The Washington Post: “Romance is for younger folks, Thelma Butler said. Until she noticed a cluster of heart-shaped red balloons on sale at a grocery store one morning, it hadn’t occurred to her…
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Check It Out: Dana Perino Apparently Missed Last 8 Years
Stumbled across this gem on Urban Politico which got The Buzz’s Irish up. Did homegirl really just say there were no terror attacks under President Bush? Does she mean besides the worst one in the history of our country for which some of perpetrators are set to go to trial for? Maybe Perino meant of…
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Check It Out: The Unemployment Outbreak!
Found this ‘Geography of a Recession’ map by Latoya Egwuekwe on American Observer. It is a terrifying representation of unemployment and the deterioration of the economy since January 2007. Prepare to shake your head. The Unemployment Map
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The Turkey Is The Least of It
It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without turkey and drama, right? Not everyone will eat turkey (vegans, vegetarians, some of my Root colleagues who just don’t like the bird), but everyone will come to dinner, and whether we’re guests or hosts, we have responsibilities: If you’re a guest: come on time, but don’t come early and expect…
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Did the New York Times Pimp the White House?
According to reports, the New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor just inked a seven-figure deal to write a volume about the Obamas. The New York Observer reported that this was partly due to the access to the White House she received as a representative of the New York Times: “It could not be determined whether…
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Tyler Perry Drops a Milli on NAACP
All complication aside, this is worthy of a hat tip. From Yahoo News “Filmmaker Tyler Perry has donated $1 million to the NAACP to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the civil rights organization. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People says the gift announced Monday is the largest donation from an individual in…
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Check It Out: Swine Flew – Paula Deen Takes a Ham to the Face
That H1N1, son. During a charity food drive, someone inexplicably tossed a ham to Deen who was not expecting it to be delivered through the air. All jokes aside, Deen is fine and joked later that there hasn’t been a ham that beat her yet. #Trill.
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Meet The Parents
The actual consuming of food is the easy part of holidays with her peeps. It’s the before and after that’ll get ya, when they are getting to know you…getting to know ALL about you. You are an idiot if you indulge it and an idiot if you dodge out of it. I just tried to…
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How to Be Black, Famous and Green
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” “I think I’ll never get an animal like a snake again where I have to keep her in an aquarium,” Pinkett Smith told OneIndia. “We have this whole thing for Beauty outside for her, to…