I hear today (yes, it’s still Monday) is Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s birthday. But is it really? Can we get some sort of birth certificate to back this up?
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We offer Steele sincere birthday wishes, as he parties out there beyond the cutting edge and changing the game. Really, we all owe Steele something. From Day One, he’s been the gift that’s kept on giving.
A little later than usual, some random-assness from the weekend and beyond:
1. Adam argues against splitting hairs when it comes to calling something a “racial provocation” when it is, in fact, racist. (Shani-o)
5. Is Fox News “un-American”? Jacob Weisberg thinks so. (Blackink)
7. Estranged right-winger David Frum conducts an interesting thought experiment: “Suppose an agent arrived in the offices of Limbaugh/Beck/Hannity/O’Reilly etc. with an offer. ‘I can guarantee you a deal that will pay you twice as much – bring you twice as much fame – and extend your career twice as long – if you’d say the exact opposite of what you are saying now. Which of them would sign?” Also on his new Web site, Frum seems to be soliciting interns who resemble Anne Hathaway. But aren’t we all? (Blackink)
8. And proving Frum actually has a legitimate point about the death spiral of conservatives, ladies and gentlemen: the South Carolina GOP. (Blackink)
9. At Bitch PhD, Ding writes a post that’s about black hair, but isn’t really as much about black hair as it is about white people who question the existence of things they know nothing about. (Shani-o)
10. A review of Searching for Whitopia by Richard Benjamin from BookForum.com: “For two years, Rich Benjamin insinuated himself in some of the fastest-growing communities in America: ‘Whitopias,’ places in Georgia, Idaho, Utah—and even parts of Manhattan’s Upper East Side—where white people are currently migrating in massive numbers.” (Belleisa)
11. Penelope Trunk explains that the internets have created a generation of great writers (minus the trolls, one presumes). (Shani-o)
12. Junot Diaz on becoming a writer in O Magazine (Belleisa)
13. Can’t get enough of “Mad Men”? Want to know where they get all that “technology” you see on set? (Yes, I’m mocking you fans, but you should still read this cool interview with the show’s prop master.) (Shani-o)
14. Athenae goes on a righteous rant about the news value of the Balloon Boy story and beyond. (Blackink)
15. Bill Cosby, social embarrassment, and social media. What more could you ask for? (Shani-o)
16. Want the country to fail? There’s a rep for that. (Blackink)
17. After a relatively interesting week on the matrimony front, Melissa Harris-Lacewell reflects on marriage. (Blackink)
18. Not everyone is impressed with Malcolm Gladwell’s latest piece on football, concussions and dogfighting. (Blackink)