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Protect Your Tech!
Dare to be different? Express yourself with the GG2G Foleo Laptop case. The ultra thin, lightweight, portable computer carrier is not only practical, but very green. Each environmentally friendly sleeve is made from recycled highway billboards and lined with recycled fabrics. GG2G takes it a step further by using a technique to refurbish vinyl materials to…
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Bodies Pile as Detroit Unable to Bury Dead
Detroit’s money woes don’t just touch the living. The city’s poor, who often cannot afford to be buried or cremated, are left to wait in a storage freezer indefinitely. From CNN Money: Inside the Wayne County morgue in midtown Detroit, 67 bodies are piled up, unclaimed, in the freezing temperatures. Neither the families nor the…
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Obama Watched Derrion Albert Beating, Will Speak on Violence "Soon"
Video of Derrion Albert’s fatal beating mesmerized and horrified millions of Americans—including, apparently, the White House. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs now says that President Barack Obama discussed the Albert beating with advisers on Wednesday morning, and will address the issue of Chicago youth violence directly sometime “soon.” From the White House press briefing: GIBBS: This…
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Consumer Confidence Dips Just In Time For Christmas
To those of you who can still afford to make regular trips to the grocery store (wake up, wake up, it’s the first of the month) you’ve probably noticed grocers have started selling pumpkins. Meanwhile retailers as early as mid-September have started setting up Christmas decorations hoping to set the mood for the holiday shopping…
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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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What the ACORN Video Actually Reveals
So, two white kids dress up in pimp-and-ho drag and walk into a social service agency with a sneer… nope, it’s not the set up for a one-liner, but serious “news.” It’s how 25-year-old James O’Keefe and 20-year-old Hannah Giles made their now-famous gotcha video to prove community-organizing group ACORN is, well, helping poor people.…
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Segregated Busing
Rush Limbaugh is at it again, fueling white fear in the America by suggesting that President Obama has emboldened young black kids to attack white kids randomly, and suggests maybe it’s time to go back to segregated busing. As with the Jena Six kerfluffle involving the white kid attacked by black kids, there is almost…
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Tavis, You Got Some 'Splainin' to Do…
Uh oh. A suit filed by the attorney general of Illinois claims Tavis Smiley and others were used to okey doke folks into high-risk Wells Fargo loans. From the Washington Independent: As the housing market began booming in mid-2000, Wells Fargo & Co. teamed up with prominent African American commentator and PBS talk show host…
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Rookie Mistake
Is Michael Crabtree the dumbest player in pro-football? Judging from how he has handled his contract negotiations so far, he might be. He’s left a $26.5 million contract with $16.5 million guaranteed on the table, and he’s not likely to get that kind of offer from any other team. The 49ers have requested a meeting with…