the hardline

After the Rev. Al Sharpton’s ex and his daughter get arrested for running a red light to get past an unmarked police vehicle, color him perplexed. “How what was apparently a minor traffic dispute ended up with two arrests with desk-appearance tickets is highly questionable and unusual,” said Mike Hardy, Sharpton’s mouthpiece. “We will pursue…

So, the New York Times wonders how you could ever hope to have equality in a marriage when your husband is the President of the United States. The answer is that there is no such thing as equality in marriage, and most people who have been married know that. It’s a test of wills, a…

So, it turns out that the Heenes were not the first to get the wise idea about sending your kid up in a balloon to create some kind of media fracas (the mother has confessed, FYI). There was some goofball up my way in the early 1930s who tied his boy, Bill Crawford, to a…

The hipsters are musing over Tracy Morgan’s recent appearances on Terry Gross and at a reading for his book, wondering why he is so “unstable.” I think it’s sad that people expect him to be pulling his shirt off and talking about malt liquor all the time. Even Richard Pryor was occasionally somber and introspective. …

I read this account comparing and contrasting the handling of two different ESPN talents with great interests. On the one hand, a brother seems to have been fired to merely hugging a female co-worker, but Steve Phillips, a white talent, was only suspended for diddling around with an underling. I don’t like looking at things…

Tyra Banks had a segment on her show about girlfriends who beat up thier boyfriends. It reminds me of scenarios I’ve witnessed play out on the street. This is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and I’ve written about the issue a bit. So I’m glad to see this being discussed. Troubling is the fact that this…

President Obama takes a significant step towards legalizing marijuana by issuing a new policy on users and dealers of medical marijauna. I don’t partake and have never partaken, so I don’t have a dog in the race. But I hear alot about the benefits of smoking dope and often wonder what the legalization of the…

Gina Macauley of What About Our Daughter.Com — God Bless Her — is completely batshit. More than a little uptight, deluded with a magnificent ego and a talent for manufacturing outrage with crazy headlines, she could find “obsfucation and misdirection” in a ham sandwich, and probably has.  Sharp like a needle stuck in a block…

I’ve written about having been the victim of domestic abuse and this is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. So I’m grateful that Sherrilyn Ifill got the ball rolling, even if I disagree with her take. It’s an emotional issue that seems to have touched all of us in one way or another. But Ifill lets her…

I watched Mike Tyson sit on Oprah Winfrey’s couch knowing no good could come of it. Oprah has rocks for brains and Mike Tyson is like Bigger Thomas: a terribly confused black man who defaults to his worst instincts, despite knowing better, despite his best intentions. Tyson sat on the couch looking like he could…