the hardline

When I first read about the women of Nairobi going on some kind of “sex strike,” I thought it was the dumbest, ugliest thing I’d heard all week. Not only is it stupid, it props up this ugly myth about black men, that we are only motivated by our penises.  I have never, ever read…

All the talk about President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office, and hardly any about the “post-racial” America white folks were looking forward to. As far as I can tell, white folks are just acting screwy-er that usual, even if there is a noticable uptick in thier niceness. Doors get opened for me now.…

Fox stations will not be covering the presidential presser, according to the New York Times. Some think the snub is political, but not me. It’s disrespectful, but I can halfway get it. TV stations make their money on commercials, and when the president feels as if he needs to disrupt the flow with a presser…

Word around the campfire is that Viacom has plans to bring a new BET-type station, for middle-aged adults to the airwaves. What that means in plain English remains to be seen. If TV One is any indication, it means re-runs of 70’s era sitcoms with all the shucking and jiving in HD, so now you…

LITTLE KNOWN FACT: When you live in the ‘hood, “environmentalism” means urinating outside. It’s not about separating your plastics and paper or whatever. Often, it’s about figuring out how to “recycle” the copper plumbing from the abandominum across the street for some grocery money. Poor people live in the now. People like me. I live,…

United Airlines is instituting a “flying while fat” policy and it concerns me for a few reasons. While I don’t think anyone would describe me as “fat,” I am certainly wide in the shoulders. I am about the same size and girth as a heavy-weight boxer –will I get bumped from a plane for being…

Bill O’Reilly got it right when he called singer Jamie Foxx a pinhead behind some comments Foxx made about Miley Cyrus on his Sirius radio show. Thank God he apologized. But he should be careful in the future. That’s a serious violation. Foxx called Cyrus all kinds of everything, and she is not even in…

Quincy Brown wrote an open letter to his father singer/songwriter/radio personality Al B. Sure that’s getting a lot of traction on the internet. You might recall back in the day, I noted that on Brown’s episode of MTV’s “Sweet 16,” he was claiming mogul Sean “Puffy” Combs as his father. Now he’s airing out his…

Lost audio of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s stop at the University of Dayton, and you read all about it and listen to excerpts here. I wonder if there are more of these kinds of things in our basement. Do any of your people have pictures with MLK or Malcolm X? Single Father, Author, Screenwriter,…

When I first heard about the pirate debacle, Roland Martin was breaking it on CNN and I was hopeful that President Obama would see the wisdom is resolving this scuffle peacefully, but the when the Seals come out, they almost always get to shooting. So, you buck down three pirates and capture another, and alls…