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Entertainment blogger Geoff Boucher over at the L.A. Times has brought something to my attention.  J.K. Rowlings, the prolific scribe of the Harry Potter franchise, was overlooked for a Presidential Medal of Freedom by the Bush crew for encouraging witchcraft in her books.  Geoff Boucher picked up the news from former speechwriter Matthew Latimer’s new…

I was skimming through the Village Voice this morning. You know, checking out tabloid pics of last weekend’s Exxotica Expo, perusing Eugene Holley Jr.’s interview with Meshell Ndegeocello, and taking a peak at a lukewarm review of Roger Guenveur Smith‘s 20-year-old solo show Frederick Douglass Now. However, none of that grabbed my full attention as…

The U.S. Secret Service has thrown on their high alert investigative gear and for good reason.  On Saturday, someone posted a poll on Facebook asking Facebookers whether President Obama should be assassinated.  Yeah, you read right.  Facebook and presidential assassination.  Four choices were provided for the polltakers:  yes, no, maybe, and yes, if he cuts…

76 year-old director Roman Polanski is sitting in a Swiss jail right now.  And no, he’s not doing research for his next Oscar-hopeful.  Polanski, who directed Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown and more recently the 2003 Oscar-winning The Pianist, was arrested on route to the Zurich Film Festival where he was to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. …

So let me understand this clearly:  Bill Sparkman, a part-time US Census worker and substitute teacher was found hanging from a tree in Kentucky’s Daniel Boone National Forest on September 12?  The word FED carved into his chest?  Wow and WHAT THE… ? It’s bad enough the average American can get stoned for giving a…

I’ll tell you what: I didn’t expect to wake up this morning and read Mackenzie Phillips had sex with her father.  A headline like that borders on tabloid and maybe a little bit of TMI. It certainly spins one into reality, or nausea, or a private prayer that begins with Dear-God-Will-The-Horror-of-Humanity-Ever-End?  Mackenzie Phillips was the star…

President Obama was “getting it in” last night on Letterman.  After a verbose question from Letterman about the venom at the so-called town hall meetings and former Prez Jimmy Carter’s allegations about a racist America, Obama told Letterman that contrary to popular and racist belief he was, in fact, a black man before the 2008…

The 61st Primetime Emmys aired last night. And no, I’m not going to complain about the lack of black award winners or nominees.  I’m not even going to go ballistic about how television is getting whiter, or less urban, or less colorful as they say in an aggressively more whitening Hollywood.  Hey, at least director Millicent…

I’m afraid the truth is out of the bag.  Hold on to your laptops, iphones and Blackberries.  Obama was seen holding a blue lightsaber in front of the White House [see attached photo].  The same lightsaber used by a Jedi to fight off enemy blaster bolts in a Star Wars movie.  There is no doubt,…

Kanye West has morphed into a drunken, reckless loudmouth.  He needs to sit down with a therapist and discuss why he enjoys punishment and outrage from millions. The brother has masochist tendencies. The brother is walking around with a stripper. The brother rolls up to the MTV Video Music Awards knocking back a bottle of Hennessy. The brother…