I know it was five years ago and the world at large cannot possibly care less, but every Oscar Sunday since 2003, I cringe a little without immediately remembering why.”There’s something… wrong about this experience,” I mutter to myself, before sprawling out on my sofa and girding myself for (at least) three and a half Read More
We’re hosting running, season-long discussion of the final 10 episodes of HBO’s incomparably dope drama, The Wire. Spoilers! I know what y’all are thinking: how could they do this? How could Beadie Russell not win an Oscar for her work in Gone Baby Gone? Oh. Did some other major event happen in the world of Read More
The homophobia often associated with Jamaica and dancehall music in particular is a mess of contradictions. “In Jamaica we grew up in a homophobic society and the Bible is what we go by,” explains Vincent Nap, a Britain-based reggae artist. “You can’t expect us to turn around like our religion doesn’t matter.” [TIME] The Times Read More
(Hat-Tip: Matthew Yglesias.)
22, 28, 32, 33, 39. Those were 5 of the 6 winning numbers from the March 30, 2005 Powerball drawing. When 110 people played those numbers — a one-in-three-million combination — the lottery officials suspected fraud. How could so many people play the same numbers? When those people showed up to claim their winnings, they Read More
An interesting question posed by On The Media: how do you satirize Obama and Clinton without veering into territory that might be labeled a racist or misogynist? They talked to editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson about reactions to his caricatures and professor Elaine Miller about the way Geraldine Ferraro was depicted in editorial cartoons in Read More
I had never realized how much America is on the minds of those who have never stepped foot on American soil and may never have the means to go. People here in South Africa are concerned that the U.S. will purchase fewer South African exports if the country goes into recession later this year. Barack Read More
Remember the opening scenes of Lean on Me, where an afro-and-dashiki-clad Joe Clark gets fired and goes storming down the well-lit hall, his bell bottoms swishing dramatically along the freshly buffed floor? “This place deserves exactly what it gets,” he fumes. Then, the scene transitions to Eastside of the ’80s, with its broken hallway lights, Read More
He ain’t no David Gregory!
By SAM ROBERTS The American family may be under stress, but most children still live in two-parent households, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday. Over all, 7 in 10 children live with two parents, about two-thirds live with two married parents, and about 6 in 10 live with both biological parents, according to the latest analysis, Read More
