Tricknology: Sandra Lee’s Trojan Horse Kwanzaa Cake.

This is abominable on several levels:

Celebrate the ancestors — and further bolster the disproportionate rates of Type-II diabetes in black communities? No one’s falling for your creamy, decadent attempts at genocide, lady!

Random Midday Hotness: The Desi Dougie?

Taz jokingly wonders if Cali Swag District boosted the ubiquitous dance from Bollywood.

Exhibit A:

Meanwhile, this mashup is very well done:

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It’s Over.

I don’t want to spend too much time licking shots at the Obama White House’s approach to DADT’s repeal, which at times seemed half-assed and even now looks like kind of lucky.

In the end, President Obama’s strategy worked after all. But it worked not so much because it was a brilliant strategy but [...]

Posted Without Comment.

via Jamil Smith via MaddowBlog.

Quote of the Day.

Adam Serwer on this afternoon’s crushing defeat “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal:

More than 60 senators, enough to overcome a filibuster, agreed DADT should end. Military leadership has endorsed repeal. Volumes of empirical evidence, including the Pentagon’s own study and the experiences of the U.S.’s own military allies, show that ending the policy would offer [...]

That Sound You Hear Is a Million Sexual Health Educators Crying.

Oh, yeah. Dunno where you work, but err on the side of this not being remotely appropriate.

Your Tuesday Random-Ass Roundup: Steady Cuttin’ Up.

What’s good, everyone? Sorry for the late roundup. I’m subbing for blackink, who just upped and moved to the A and is still getting settled in.

Some stuff to turn over as you go about your day…

It’s kind of a moot point now, but this chart, via Ezra Klein, shows how much folks would [...]

Jigga and the Fourth Amendment.

Two weeks ago, Jay-Z went on Fresh Air with Terry Gross to talk about his new, much-hyped book about his life and music. During the interview, he went into greater detail  about the police stop recalled in the second verse of “99 Problems”:

GROSS: So, you know, part of that story is that the [...]