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Wanda Sykes: Gay and on Late Night
Goodbye MadTV, hello Wanda Sykes! Actress-Comedian Sykes is scheduled to take a late spot on Fox this Fall. I have to be honest: I’m a growing fan of Sykes and not a confirmed one. She’s certainly witty, sharp and unfiltered, but I haven’t been won over. I didn’t know much about Sykes before her clash…
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Ice Cube Plays Racist Cop in New Comedy
Here we go again. First, it was Bernie Mac in Guess Who? where he plays a black dad tortured by his daughter’s white husband-to-be. Then there was Samuel Jackson in Lakeview Terrace, that racial-heavy thriller where a black cop terrorizes a white man and his beautiful black wife. Now it’s Ice Cube. He’s just signed…
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Are Senior Citizens Safe?
This weekend’s shooting spree at the senior-care facility in Carthage, N.C. has me concerned: Senior facilities are frighteningly unsafe. You can walk into the AIG headquarters and front-desk security will swab your cheek and test your DNA to protect those thieves. But a home for older Americans and the people in it are on their own.…
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Madonna and Another Malawian Baby
Madonna has returned to the Malawian orphanage where she adopted her son David. She wants a kid sister for David and she has her eye on a 14-month old girl named Mercy James. I’ve been holding my tongue about Madonna and her adoption fetish. She’s a citizen of the world. Right? She has license to…
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Can Circumcision Help AIDS Epidemic?
The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a report about the health benefits of circumcision. After studying the sexual patterns of 3500 Ugandan men researchers from John Hopkins concluded circumcision reduced the risk of Herpes by 25% and believe it could curb HIV. Now I’ll be candid here: I’m one of those circumcised men. …
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I Was Wrong About Obama and Catholics
Message from KJA: Earlier today I published a post about Catholics organizing a petition to bar Obama from delivering a speech at Notre Dame’s commencement. A diligent Root reader discovered a few inaccuracies in my post and felt my post was misleading. The reader was right. I stated that the Catholic church was behind the…
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Should Felons Attend Med School?
A year ago one of Sweden’s top medical schools expelled a student for being a Nazi sympathizer and convicted murderer. Well, the student, Karl Svennson, was admitted to another top Swedish med school and then expelled for falsifying records. Crazy and complicated? Yes. But, unlike the good ole U.S. of A., the Swedish government believes…
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Sickle Cell's New Breakthrough
After last year’s first-ever sickle-cell anemia cure scientists at John Hopkins are convinced a trend is underway. Robert Brodsky, director of the hematology division at the John Hopkins University Medicine, successfully cured Pamela Newton of Capital Heights, Maryland of her sickle-cell disease in May 2008 through a new intensive chemotherapy and a follow-up bone-marrow transplant. …
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Obama and His Big Awkward Mouth
I’m not sure what I feel about Obama and his bowling joke. Well, his “bowling like he’s in Special Olympics” joke. He’s allowed to be make a mistake. Right? He’s the president; he’s not Gandhi or Mandela. Well, they made a few mistakes, too. Anyway… as an uncle of a Down’s Syndrome albeit mainstreamed nephew,…
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Eastwood directs Mandela Flick… Why?
So Clint Eastwood will direct the untitled Nelson Mandela biopic. Whether you like Eastwood’s latest ventures of Gran Torino or Flags of Our Fathers, Hollywood has thrown him the wheel and he’s in the Mandela’s driver seat. Eastwood has also cast Morgan Freeman as Mandela which will probably be Freeman’s role of a lifetime. Eastwood…