Good writing

Color me impressed with Adam Mansbach’s piece in The Root the other day, an excerpt from his upcoming book, “The Speech: Race and Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect Union.’”  Other than making Obama’s speech his jump-off point, I found a lot that clicks.  Mansbach is rich with the details.

Stupid White People

Un-Fracken-Believable.  Via Obsidian Wings.

Michael Steele’s fictional counterpart

First, a defense of the Republican National Committee chairman’s “fried chicken and potato salad” crack… he made it in response to someone who was shouting out, “I’ll bring the collard greens,” and in that context what he said made sense.  But the rest of his answer was Palinesque in its vapidity — beginning [...]

Harry Allen pinpricks Kirstie Alley

Over at Media Assassin, he takes the air out of the actress, but she doesn’t seem to notice.  Her balloon still floats.  (By the way — I took the “pinprick” idea right out of Allen’s post.) 
In the latest proof of Twitter the medium causing near instantaneous amazement, Alley tweeted: “I WANT every African American in the country [...]