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 [...]

RIP, Peter Pan of pop

Wasn’t ready for this.
“Thriller” was the first must-have album of my life. 
The man was a loon. 
The man was an incredible performer.
He never really grew up and I always had a hard time imagining him growing old.
He didn’t.
P.S.  For another less-than-common Michael Jackson video, check this out.  (Welcome back, UBM.)  Note a [...]

From my moving bicycle

 

My second mock NBA draft

Again, just the top 10 picks.  A recap of my predictions from last year:
1.  Derrick Rose to the Bulls.  Yup, and he had a rookie season befitting an eventual legend.
2.  Michael Beasley to the Heat.  Yup, though he didn”t go to the Bulls, and he showed promise but was inconsistent.  He put up decent numbers [...]

Equivalent to stupid

Pete Hoekstra got himself served when he compared Twitter use by Iranian street protestors now to that by U.S. House Republicans last fall.  My favorite line:
“My neighbor stopped me to talk today. Now I know what it is like to be questioned by the Basij!”

Iran so far away

Kudos to my clearinghouse, here, for coverage of protests that follow the elections stolen last week.

Face of a terrorist

Why wasn’t James Von Brunn in Guantanamo?