Go for it, y’all. Here’s a rundown of how the day will go: 10:00 AM Preliminary festivities begin. Music by The United States Marine Band, The San Francisco Boys Chorus, and the San Francisco Girls Chorus. 11:30 AM: Call to Order and Welcoming Remarks: Senator Dianne Feinstein Invocation: Dr. Rick Warren Aretha Franklin will sing Read More
Jamie Foxx, John Mellencamp, Steve Carrell and Usher at the Inauguration concert. [via.]
Worth a re-run, we think: Also, some more MLK reading, courtesy of J.
The Source is going to stop publishing sexually suggestive ads, in the hopes of attracting attracting mainstream advertisers. To that end, the magazine announced recently that it would no longer take what the co-publisher, L. Londell McMillan, calls “booty ads,” for pornographic films, pornographic Web sites or escort services. But those have been a Read More
[via] Go for it, folks.
The NYT magazine has a nice slideshow of the people who will be key players in the Obama White House. Unrelated:
A little while back, I got into a mind-boggling back and forth on another blog in which the proprietor asserted that poor people are the most equipped to shrug off the effects of an economic downturn. His argument was basically, hey, poor people are already poor, so they probably won’t even feel it. No, seriously. Obviously, Read More
It’s simply a fact that anyone occupying a sufficiently powerful office will occasionally be targeted with death threats. And, as I’m sure you know, that’s especially the case for the presidency. Indeed, it’s doubly the case for a controversial president, and orders of magnitude the case for a black president. And with Barack Obama’s inauguration only Read More
In his review of Hot, Flat and Crowded, Matt Taibbi takes the insufferable Tom Friedman behind the woodshed. Like The World is Flat, a book borne of Friedman’s stirring experience of seeing IBM sign in the distance while golfing in Bangalore, Hot,Flat and Crowded is a book whose great insights come when Friedman golfs (on global warming allowing him Read More
