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Watch the State of The Union in the post below, and catch our commentary here. Featuring me (shani-o), Jamelle, Monica, blackink12, and G.D.. Watch the video below. Liveblogging the State of the Union Address

You can watch it right here, via Hulu, at nine. And! You can read mine, Jamelle’s, and Monica’s commentary in a post (it’s going up closer to the start of the address) that will collect our tweetage right here on the blog.

“If I was the president, then I would state facts/You leave it up to me, I paint the White House black”: There’s only a few hours left before President Obama gives his first State of the Union address, and this might be the absolute worst time to comment upon less substantive matters related to the Read More

Ten years and one day ago, D’Angelo released his second full-length studio album. And for the foreseeable future, it also appears to be his last. In the time since “Voodoo” hit the stores, on Jan. 25, 2000, D’Angelo has had very public struggles with alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and his improbable status as a sex symbol. Read More

A few weeks ago, Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, made big news when she said the powerful teachers union would make room for dismissals of ineffective teachers — a common sense tactic that she and teachers unions had long opposed. (To see how tragicomic their stridence on that position could Read More

It’s not so hard to say goodbye. Via Anna N. at Jezebel, we learn: Whole Foods will offer steeper employee discounts to people with lower BMIs. […] Whole Foods CEO John Mackey explains the program in a letter, reproduced below. Apparently it’s part of an initiative to reduce health care costs, which is interesting since Read More

Matt Yglesias does the admirable work of explaining President Obama’s bizarre plan for a three-year freeze on non-defense discretionary spending (via Dara): The freeze would not apply to the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Homeland Security, or to the foreign operations budget of the State Department. The official emphasized Read More

Haiti. Sarah Palin and Scott Brown will soon reign supreme. President Obama is a failure. We’re all going to lose our health care; those of us who make it through the death panels. I officially will never be able to run for public office. And for some reason, Wyclef thinks he’s worth $100,000 a show: Read More

Julia Roberts is going to play the lead in Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2006 memoir that was on the best-seller list for hundreds of weeks. It makes a lot of sense to combine everything in the world we despise into one entity. Now we don’t have to divide our loathing for Roberts’s toothy, over-earnestness Read More

Excuse me. But we’re going to go ahead and jack Pandagon’s fantastic idea from last week to list 10 songs that have been almost completely ruined by overplay. Here’s the rules: 1) The song in question has to be truly great.  If you had never heard it before, and you heard it for the first Read More
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