This is How Gary Coleman’s Ex-Wife Will Finally Answer Suspicions She Was Involved in His Death, Once and for All
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Big Daddy Kane: On Tour and No Half-Steppin'
Big Daddy Kane performed at Prospect Park in Brooklyn on Saturday. And yes, Mister “King Asiatic Nobody Else” was still bringing lyrics and Asiatic flow and the courage to dance like a true golden rapper. I must admit I wasn’t able to check him out. Don’t worry. I was grilled by a few friends about…
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Have Mercy!
In “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man,” Henry Louis Gates writes, that many black Americans think that “the soft drink Tropical Fantasy is manufactured by the Ku Klux Klan and contains a special ingredient designed to sterilize black men.” He then demolishes this and other conspiracy theories while recalling America’s troubled racial history,…
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Torture Prosecutions May Target Low-Level Offenders
From Adam Serwer for American Prospect: By now, everyone’s heard that the Justice Department is apparently considering the Abu Ghraib strategy for dealing with torture as a legal matter—prosecuting only those low-level operators who went beyond the Office of Legal Counsel guidelines detailing how much torture was legal. The LA Times article quotes Human Rights…
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Mentally Ill Offenders Burden Juvenile System
FRANKLIN FURNACE, Ohio — The teenager in the padded smock sat in his solitary confinement cell here in this state’s most secure juvenile prison and screamed obscenities. The youth, Donald, a 16-year-old, his eyes glassy from lack of sleep and a daily regimen of mood stabilizers, was serving a minimum of six months for breaking…
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Swine Flu Prepares to Make a Comeback
From the Washington Post: As the first influenza pandemic in 41 years has spread during the Southern Hemisphere’s winter over the past few months, the United States and other northern countries have been racing to prepare for a second wave of swine flu virus. At the same time, international health authorities have become increasingly alarmed…
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Lucky Number 70: Tiger Wins at Bridgestone
From Golf.com: There were all kinds of delicious implications had Padraig Harrington hung on to defeat Tiger Woods at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational on Sunday, and the pundits were salivating. As Woods sat out the second half of 2008, Harrington stole his mantle and won the British Open and PGA Championship. Not that the Irishman seemed…
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A Summer of Race Talk Gone Bad
Judge Sonia Sotomayor is the first Latina Supreme Court justice. The Cambridge police dropped the charges against Professor Henry “Skip” Gates, an action supported by the mounting evidence that he was the subject of a false and racially charged arrest. But without a doubt, this has been a bad summer for conversations on race. It…
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The Confusing Lives of Marion Barry
“How the hell did Marion Barry get his job back? Smoked crack and got his job back. How the hell did that happen? I mean, if you get caught smoking crack at McDonald’s, you can’t get your job back. … Marion Barry! Come on, how you gonna tell little kids not to get high when…
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Vacation Misers
Dear Come Correct: Our business has definitely been affected by the recession. Some people were laid off. To prevent even more from being fired, we have had no raises this year, the annual company picnic was cancelled and so were paid holidays. If you want to take Thanksgiving off this year, you’ll have to use…
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Bring Your Thirst, Not Your Computer
About a week ago, I came home to find that my depressed cable modem decided to go and commit suicide. With work left to do, I scrambled to try and find a wireless connection I could “borrow” so that everything that needed to be published was done so by morning. Unfortunately, my neighbors all had…