The Most Random ‘Wire’ Reference Ever.
Who knew? Apparently there’s a lot of overlap between the audiences for “The Wire” and “iCarly.” h/t Sean @ Melanism.
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Five Romcoms You Should Side-Eye.
After a brief conversation about John Hughes’ 1984 teen romcom classic, Sixteen Candles, this morning, I was reminded of something I’ve always suspected by never taken the time to truly analyze: romantic comedies are never as innocuous as their writers would have you believe. For all their spin about happy endings, they’re about as kind Read More
Getting Even, DC City Council Edition.
As we’ve mentioned before, the DC City Council is kind of a hot mess right now. And Council Chairman Kwame Brown (pictured above) is only making it worse. On Monday, Brown announced a shuffle of committee assignments, removing popular Ward 6 Councilman Tommy Wells from his chairmanship of the Committee for Public Works and Transportation, Read More
Humpday Hate: Ma’am, You Dropped Your Grocery List.
A friend texted this picture to me. He saw it laying on the ground while he was at Kroger picking up a few things. I don’t know about yall, but when i make my lists, I tend to list items I need in order of importance. First on this list: vagina spray. Just vagina spray. Read More
Are Better Schools All We Need?
A foundational belief at the Harlem Children’s Zone is that erasing the achievement gap between black and white kids requires a comprehensive, resource-intensive approach. The idea is that middle-class white kids don’t just have better schools, but the kind of home lives that lend themselves to better school performance. HCZ is essentially trying to fill in Read More
Rodrick Dantzler Is Dead.
(Cross-posted from slb.) Rodrick Shonte Danzler is dead. And so is his 12-year-old daughter and the six other people he killed Thursday. I didn’t become aware of the massacre or begin to watch the live footage until his five-hour hostage standoff was well underway. Apparently, Dantzler’s killing rampage began in the afternoon and alternated between Read More
Your Monday Random-Ass Roundup: A First Lady, A Force, A Ford.
At the start of what’s shaping up to be a particularly news-heavy week, we at PostBourgie didn’t want to forget to pay our respects to former First Lady Betty Ford. She died at the age of 93 Friday. In addition to her important and lasting work in substance abuse recovery, Carl Sferrazza Anthony reminds us Read More
Chomsky: Moral Justice Trumps “Legal” Justice and America’s Narrow Political Spectrum
Okay, so I am not one who can churn out literary reviews well, partially, because I don’t like reading literary reviews. They’re too long. I would much prefer something succinct like: “this book is tight, bam-bam-bam- these are the reasons why… but I am not going to spoil it for you so, the end.” So Read More
Your Midweek Random-Ass Roundup: Casey, Corey and Justice.
As you all might have noticed, we’ve had nothing to say – thus far, at least – about the 25-year-old Orlando woman who was acquitted on murder charges Tuesday in the death of her 2-year-old daughter in 2008. But if I had something interesting and edifying to say about that circus, it probably would sound Read More
