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Nollywood Confidential
Via Foreign Policy’s Passport blog, here comes the news that ought to have US moviemakers quaking in their shoes: Nollywood is officialy bigger than Hollywood. John Boonstra at UN DISPATCH reports: According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) survey, Bollywood – as the Mumbai-based film industry is known – produced 1,091 feature-length films in…
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Um, Chocolate City is More Gay-Friendly than You Think
When I heard about Marion Berry’s wild, misguided rant against gay marriage in D.C., I had just one question: Who the hell cares? Let’s review the elements of this story for a brief, dispassionate moment. First off, Chocolate City has long had one of the more pro-gay, progressive municipal governments around. Let us count the…
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National Prayer Day – Not So Fast
President Obama will sign the National Prayer Day proclamation today, but he will not hold prayer in the White House. Well, he may pray privately, but that’s his business. We all know this country is full of Christians and prayer means everything to them. We all know former presidents Bush and Reagon put the Christian…
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First Mother-In-Law Likes To Party
Regular readers may recall a few months back, when I wrote a joint suggesting that moving First Mother-In-Law Marian Robinson into the White House was a dummy move – it would be media fodder, cause for distraction and she would have her folks up in there playing cards and the like. Beyond the usual suspects…
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Three Problems with the New Kindle
On Wednesday, Amazon announced the launch of the Kindle DX, a large-screen newspaper- and textbook-friendly edition of the Kindle. Though the new Kindle sports a number of upgrades that will improve its appeal to students and newspaper junkies, Amazon has yet to show that it really understands reading in the digital age. I haven’t tried the DX, but I…
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Thursday's Headlines
CNN: Obama to Cut Budget by $17B; China: ‘Let’s Not Get Hasty Here’ NO: Jackson, MS Mayor Dies After Losing Primary NYT: Disappearing Acts: The Plight of Girls on Our Streets HP: Breaking the Cycle of Inner-City Gang Violence WP: Ties that Bind, Codes that Break: The Affect of Drug Laws on Black Families USAT:…
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Where Does Ciara Fit In?
Ciara can wear the hell out of some Louboutin pumps and YSL booties. She could possibly rock a Glad trash bag. Her pop-star façade, on the other hand, is ill-fitting. R&B singers tend to come wrapped in a nice, predefined persona— for better or worse—but Ciara’s was always vague and undefined. She wasn’t a Bohemian…
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Don’t Sign That Document, Fool!
As I sat in George and Veronica Gallon’s kitchen, listening to them describe their months-long tussle with the mortgage industry, I couldn’t avoid the obvious conclusion: They’d made bad choices. Listening to them describe each small step along the road to foreclosure was like watching a predictable horror film. Put that promotional flyer down! No,…
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Zuma Rising
On Saturday, South Africa will roll out its red carpet and put on the dog, as only it can. If the past is anything to go by, there will be plenty of pageantry and poetry and a few staid speeches as big planes fly in salute over the old Union Buildings in Pretoria. It will…
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Welcome To The World of Freelancing
When my job options did not turn out as well as I had hoped, I became a freelancer in September 2007. According to a survey by human resources consulting firm Kelly Services, Inc, 26% of the U.S. working population now find themselves in a similar position. For companies the benefits of hiring freelancers over full-time…