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TMZ managed to get its hands on some blurry video of the college kid yoking on LeBron. It seems pretty routine, and not at all worth the cover-up by Nike. Better video here.

[via] The press conference was about what you’d expect: Obama trying to sell the public health care reform (which Ambinder notes, he has subtly begun calling  “health insurance reform”) ahead of his self-imposed end-of-summer deadline for a bill from Congress. But Obama was surprisingly candid in his response to a question about the Skip Gates Read More

A few years back, my co-blogger quadmoniker worked for New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, which is supposed to act as a watchdog group for the city’s police department. If a citizen wanted to file a complaint against a police officer, she would do so with the CCRB, who would then dispatch an investigator Read More

I apologize for the delay. The dog ate my homework. I had a death in the family. I got caught in traffic. And then my car broke down. But, as President Obama told us last week, “no excuses”: Without further delay, your PostBourgie-approved reading material from the weekend: As a native Houstonian, I feel the Read More

Henry “Skip” Louis Gates, the venerable Harvard professor, was arrested for, uh, not breaking into his own home. No, seriously. He was booked for disorderly conduct after “exhibiting loud and tumultuous behavior,” according to the Cambridge police log. Friends of Gates said he was already in his home when police arrived. He showed his driver’s Read More

I’ll be guest-blogging at Feministe for the next two weeks, which I’m pretty amped about. I hope to keep up the regular blogging pace over here while pulling double duty. Drop in and check me out.

cross-posted at my place Judging from the past month of political controversy, you could be forgiven for thinking that the United States had mysteriously warped back to the early 1990s.  After all, the similarities are striking: not only are Republicans again trying to sink a young Democratic president’s ambitious attempt at health care reform, but Read More

shani-o: Sometime early in the year (or was it last year?), I heard a radio interview on Philly’s public radio station with a man named Joel Berg. Berg was discussing  ‘low food insecurity’ (also known as ‘hunger’) in the U.S. His energy and candor made me take note of his book, which came out just Read More

On Colbert’s ‘The Word’ segment for Thursday, Stephen demonstrates a pretty decent understanding of white privilege. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.850922&w=425&h=350&fv=autoPlay%3Dfalse]

Walter Cronkite died today at the age of 92. According to CBS News, he was at the tail end of the evening broadcast when the station received word that King had been assassinated.
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