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[Via.] UPDATE: Publisher’s Weekly responds via Twitter. While I respect everyone who may be offended, I think the photo is a delightful and wry expression of historical Afro Americana. Oh. That explains it. UPDATE #2: I was going to leave this in the comments as a response to Literanista’s comment, but I figured I’d post Read More

Is it possible that John McCain, G. Gordon Liddy or my mom were responsible for IT in the Bush White House? Sheesh: Since I’m late as usual, no time for fun. Just randomness: 1. Joe Lieberman has gone into full-on obstructionist mode. First, there were his ever-changing justifications for his opposition to the public option. Read More

I’ve seen a recurring theme in high-profile Broadway plays of late, and at first it made me wonder whether white playwrights had somehow been left out of conversations on portraying race. Then I remembered plenty of movie-makers and writers haven’t really done well lately, either. Two years ago, I saw and enjoyed August: Osage County Read More

Awhile back, we had tinkered with the idea of instituting a commenting policy for readers, but we decided that we’d fall back on the commonsensical rules in place over at Bitch PhD’s spot: don’t be obnoxious. But being obnoxious is kinda like being a racist: most never really think they are. (“Why, some of my Read More

Unless you’re from there, it would probably be easy to write off Houston as a backward, smoggy, sprawling conservative stronghold. And there might be some truth to that. But  Houston is also a large international hub when you consider the demographics, the institutions and the diversity of industries. And last night, my hometown made a Read More

…except to say, I think this makes me like Michael Steele a little bit. Actually no. I will post the comment of a colleague, who says: I’ve decided that the interns are actually mocking him in the photos and he doesn’t realize it. So I feel sad for him. Then mad at him. (Via TPM, Read More

Because we’re exactly two weeks away from Dec. 25 (Christians, in particular, like to refer to the day as Christmas) and Shani-o is a really demanding boss, today’s Friday Random Ten will be a celebration of Christmas music. As Shani noted in her post over at Alyssa’s spot, we know that not everyone who reads Read More
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