First things first: Poor Kitty. For me, scenes that showcase the Sal-Kitty union are among the saddest the series has to offer. I’ve spent two seasons wondering just how aware Kitty was of Sal’s orientation. I always speculated she’d gone semi-willingly into this marriage, with her eyes at least half-open. Maybe she was on a Read More
Take a long, hard look at this clip, y’all. This could be what awaits you—in theatres everywhere—in six months. By now, we all know that Tyler Perry is well on his way to making Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. He’ll be adapting a screenplay for it, Read More
PostBourgie took the popular vote for Best Political/News Blog in the Black Weblog Awards. I think we’ll keep y’all around.
PostBourgie took the popular vote for Best Political/News Blog in the Black Weblog Awards. I think we’ll keep y’all around.
(cross-posted from the League of Ordinary Gentlemen and U.S. of J.) The thing that bothers me most about this New York Times piece on the efficacy of sex offender alert programs is… that it focuses on the efficacy of sex offender alert programs, and doesn’t bother to raise any objections to the idea of a Read More
If you are so inclined, Labor Day weekend is preferably celebrated with equal parts barbecue, beer and the beach. Since I’m an honest-to-goodness Southerner and a recovering jock, I might add football into that delectable mix. But Labor Day isn’t all about fun in the sun and the symbolic end of the summer. In fact, Read More
Dr. Jerome Clark, the medical director for the Long Island Railroad, spits 16 on preventing H1N1 infection.
This is pretty funny. Let’s see how his sense of humor holds up after a half a season of soul-crushing Clippers awfulness.
Don’t have much to say on the Maia Campbell thing, besides that it’s sad and that all the churchiness in these conversations is really, really unhelpful. This, though, is worth a read.
A reader, “Unsure” asks Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, for advice: she wants to jump into bed with a guy [George] that she really likes, but wonders whether she should I make him wait. “After all, there must be some reason that all those books and magazines (not to mention my mother) champion Read More
