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Deadspin reports that New York Giants general manager Jerry Reese has a positive, however conditioned, outlook on the star receiver’s future with the franchise. For his part, Burress has done work on his own to get back in good graces. A Public Service Announcement from Plaxico Burress Sheer delight.

U.S. News & World Reports: GOP to Steele: Shut Your Pie Hole TBT: Man. It’s cold in the streets. MSNBC: President’s Approval Rating at All-Time High, “All-Time” Not Long Time TBT: Kudos for getting off on the right foot of course, but it’s been a month and change. Let’s settle down. ESPN: NLF Players Missing at Sea,…

Should you read the Bible? You probably haven’t. A century ago, most well-educated Americans knew the Bible deeply. Today, biblical illiteracy is practically universal among nonreligious people. My mother and my brother, professors of literature and the best-read people I’ve ever met, have not done much more than skim Genesis and Exodus. Even among the…

While The Buzz still embraces the megalomaniacal tendencies of Kanye West, the post about his comments on vh1 Storytellers during his performance of ‘Touch the Sky’ was off-base. If you watch the performance of the song in its entirety, you’ll probably come away less aghast than the soundbite would betray. You may not be completely into the…

So often, we don’t give credit to young people who do wrong, accept the consequence and try to better themselves. The term “penitentiary” has been replaced by “correctional facility” because it seems to imply that, rather than flagellation for their crimes, inmates are being “rehabilitated” to be better and more productive members of society. But…

CLASSIC. The Buzz would be outraged, but why? This is entirely too megalomaniacal to be anything but hilarious. Yeah, Kanye? That’s your greatest pain? Not your mom dying? Or the break up of your engagement? Not, by your own admission, stabbing Damon Dash in the back when he and Jay-Z had their falling out? With each…

Police brutality, manners and Bobby Jindal, oh my! Word to our bloggers Keith Josef Adkins, Karen Grigsby Bates and Jimi Izrael. They’re some bad mutha… Support Black bloggers.

RESOLVED: People are prepared to give Chris Brown a mulligan regarding the incident with Rihanna. Agree or Disagree in the Comments section. Loyal Buzzonians: Keep it civil. Stay on topic.

Steve Stoute and Jay-Z have teamed to launch Translation, an ad agency directed at what many hope is a recession-proof demographic: Educated, urban youth with earning potential. Branding, They Go Hard, They Go Hard While The Buzz can’t help but think of Steve Stoute in two regards—as the Stoute of “tell Stoute to holla at me…