Over at Salon’s Broadsheet, Sara Libby – a Friend of the Blog — takes a critical look at the whiteness and maleness of the new pundit class: What bothered me about Calderone’s ranting wasn’t so much whether any of these young men deserved to break into these famously stodgy, old-school institutions — I find all their Read More
PostBourgie: The Podcast, Episode 5: “Dirty South.” Monica, Jamelle and G.D. talk about Virginia’s resurrection of Confederate History Month, the new health care law’s bolstering of abstinence-only education funding, and the unkillable idea of “acting white.” “How Is It That We Hear the Loudest Yelps for Liberty Among the Drivers of Negroes?” Stop Speaking in Read More
“Since when do nations not rebuild their great cities,” asks Creighton Bernette, a professor and professional mad man, standing out there on one of those levees with a British news crew. To Creighton, played with full-throated indignation by John Goodman, there is only one acceptable answer.
We’re going to try to give Treme, the new HBO series by David Simon set in post-Katrina New Orleans, the same weekly recap treatment we gave to The Wire and that we give to Mad Men and Lost. (But apparently part of the ethos of postbourgiedom is not having HBO.) We hope to have the Read More
Jay‘s face @ 1:13 is priceless. Also, Jay probably doesn’t know it’s Jamelle‘s birthday, but I’d like to think that the beat at the end was a gift to Jam-Rock. UPDATE: Over at NilDoctrine, Jay apologizes for the seizure joke.
Frankly, it might help us all if we started to think of Sarah Palin as a washed-up West Coast rap artist. She likes to shoot things. She fetishizes aggressive canines. She hates the East Coast. And she desperately wants to start up a beef with an older, more-established rival that would spark her flagging political Read More
by Andrea, cross-posted from Racialicious. (TRIGGER WARNING) Well, this is a fine way for me to commemorate Sexual Assault Awareness Month. I survived a young Black man raping me when I was five years old, and I’ve been subjected to decades of the stereotype of the Black male rapist and the racism behind it. So, Read More
cross-posted from TAPPED. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report that younger women had fewer children in 2008, probably because of the recession. Doctors suspect, of course, that younger women probably delayed childbirth for financial reasons. Meanwhile, the birth rate continued to rise for women in their 40s. (It has been rising Read More
By now, a number of you have probably already seen the following Nike golf ad, which was released on the eve of Tiger Woods’ return to the Masters. What are your thoughts? Is this poignant or distasteful?
cross-posted from U.S. of J Adam Serwer has more on Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s announcement that April is Confederate History Month: The “state’s rights” in question involved the ownership of black people, and the “federal intrusion” the Confederacy opposed was the efforts of the federal government to secure the rights of black Americans. Through the Read More
