the hardline

Steven Spielberg is onboard to produce and direct a movie on Martin Luther King Jr. and I say, have at it. I’d prefer Oliver Stone gave it a shot, so we got a more accurate, warts-and-all dramatization of King’s life, but whatever. The King Mythology is so far gone and commodified to sell everything from…

I was digging on Dayo’s joint yesterday, but we all know that the black hipster/dandy is nothing particularly new, right? They’ve been around a long time. While we can argue if it’s “dandyism” in the strictest sense, Prince was kind of the king of 80’s-era dandys: straight men who embraced androgyny and other kinds of…

Pittsburgh Steeler James Harrison is skipping out on his Super Bowl-winning teams RSVP to the White House. It’s weird to me, because it’s almost like he’s trying to stand on a principle — that the president should want to see you whether you win or lose — without understanding that a personal audience with the…

So, some dude named Mike Polk, who fancies himself a comedian, did a YouTube video tribute to Cleveland. The Cleveland Tourism Board video and another one he did have been making the rounds around the Internets and what not and the thing is, it’s almost funny, in a 1983 sort of way, when white people…

A Kenyan man decided to sue the organizers of the sex strike there, saying the deprivation has caused him undue stress. According to the ladies and CNN reports, the strike worked, kinda, as leaders did actually meet. I was a big critic of the sex strike — and I remain one —- but you can’t…

Back in the day, when I admonished biological fathers to be hyper-vigilant about who thier babymama’s hooked and shacked up with, I caught alot of flak. Naturally, I was called a “misogynist” (the preferred insult from people who can’t articulate a coherent counter-point) and the like. But there seem to be a rash of boyfriends…

Regular readers may recall a few months back, when I wrote a joint suggesting that moving First Mother-In-Law Marian Robinson into the White House was a dummy move – it would be media fodder, cause for distraction and she would have her folks up in there playing cards and the like. Beyond the usual suspects…

Asher Roth is this white kid who raps — the internets is all abuzz about him, and has been for some time. But lately, it’s because  of his off-color comments about nappy-headed hoes and socially irresponsible black rappers. His foilbles — and subsequent apology — serve to remind us all that while rap music has…

The Paquiao/Hatton fight made me long for the days of real boxing. These guys were not evenly matched going in — Pac Man was going to own him, and everyone knew it. I almost paid to watch this bout, but that was the last time I evcen think about it — it came out to,…

I read my last post about the sex strike in Nairobi and it was clear to me that it missed its mark.  So it seems wholey appropriate to revisit the topic, because I suspect my point was lost in the malarkey. So much of me wonders, in a group of obviously intelligent women –smart enough…