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Without much prompting or need, the good Reverend Dr. Glenn Beck and about 87,000 – or eleventy-jillion – of his minions rallied Saturday at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to restore America’s honor. Which is all well and good. Assuming you believe honor is something to be valued above all else. And all this [...] The Tea Party has advice for folks coming to Glenn Beck’s Aug. 28 rally. It boils down to this: stay away from black people. Which is something we thought the Tea Party was pretty skilled at doing, anyway. (Monica) I’d also like to add, if possible, Tea Partiers should definitely steer clear of 2nd Amendment enthusiasts [...] Every couple of years or so, we seem to get drawn into national conversation about niggers and niggas – or n-words, if you prefer – and which group of people should and shouldn’t be able to use the word. We’re now a week into this silly debate following Dr. Laura’s racist on-air rant without [...] Let’s start off with a semi-serious note, if only for a moment: We probably should stop referring to the expansion of marital rights as gay marriage. The only meaningful difference between marriages involving heterosexuals and opposite marriage is the genitals. And really, it’s not all that meaningful of a difference for the purposes of [...] With at least 7 pounds, 10 ounces and 20 inches of newborn to care for these days, our blogsister Stacia has a lot on her hands and heart and mind. And because we never miss a chance to do it big when it comes to celebrating milestones – as she once said in advance of my big day earlier this year – we’re devoting this Friday’s Random Ten to songs in honor of Stacia and the lovely Story Jean. Below, you’ll find a medley of tunes about mamas, babies, baby mamas and baby babies. As always, be sure to add your own blessings, plaudits and/or suggestions in the comments section. Because it takes a village and all that jazz: 1. If I Could by Regina Belle (Brokey) Before Monday, I can’t say that I knew much – if anything - about Jeffrey Lord. I was probably better off, considering his online column posted yesterday morning at The American Spectator about Shirley Sherrod was breathtaking in its ignorance and shamelessness. Lord essentially called Sherrod a liar for using the word “lynch” [...] The easy joke – and one made endlessly on the innanets yesterday – is that BP CEO Tony Hayward is finally getting his life back. But that’s not really true. Hayward is being shipped to Siberia to oversee a joint venture between BP and a group of Russian oil billionaires. And for all his troubles, Hayward will receive a $930,000-a-year pension when he steps aside in October. Which probably is not the yachting season in Russia. So there’s that.
Maybe we should just start calling this weekly feature the late Monday or Tuesday roundup, just to hedge against my Monday morning failures. But I hope you all didn’t miss the links too much. Uh … nah. Sure I do: 1. As you might expect, Glenn Greenwald has high praise for Wikileaks, erm, leak of more than 90,000 pages of classified material about the war in Afghanistan from 2004 through 2009. “Anyone who believes that the Government abuses its secrecy powers in order to keep the citizenry in the dark and manipulate public opinion — and who, at this point, doesn’t believe that? – should be squarely on the side of the greater transparency which Wikileaks and its sources, sometimes single-handedly, are providing.” (Blackink) 2. Related: Spencer Ackerman calls the leaked reports mostly old news but “a real-time account of how the U.S. let Afghanistan rot”; Fred Kaplan at Slate echoes Spencer’s point; The New York Observer profiles Wikileaks founder Julian Assange; Andrew Sullivan posts a recent interview with Assange; and Mediaite ponders whether there’s any similarity between this leak and the Pentagon Papers. (Blackink) If the Tea Party thinks you’re too racist for their ranks, where do you go from there? Has Sarah Palin found someone to replace her spokeswoman yet? Those questions don’t have to be mutually exclusive, if you get my drift. Oh … I’m so coy.
Also, I’m not going to bother making anymore jokes about “refudiate” this afternoon. The trend went from 0 to lame in about six hours. Speaking of lame, how about this roundup? 1. First things first, take some time to read through The Washington Post’s massive investigative project about “Top Secret America,” a system designed to keep the U.S. safe that has grown “so massive that its effectiveness is impossible to determine.” (Blackink) 2. Spencer explains why Muslims are under no obligation to reject a mosque at Ground Zero. (Shani-o) Consider it a jumpstart on Tuesday. No time for small talk or lame jokes. Just links: Six months into recovery efforts, Haiti is still a mess. BBC spotlights the plight of orphaned children. Racewire reminds us that Haitian women have been victims of a “second wave of disaster” that includes “poverty, sexual violence and [...] Endless sun. Beautiful, scantily-clad women. Joe’s Stone Crab. David Caruso. If Miami doesn’t have it all, then it’s probably not possible to survive the city that does. Orson Swindle summed it up so well: “Why is this beautiful place also repulsive? Because it’s Miami, that’s why, which somehow always manages to show up to dinner looking stunning in a white suit, sits down, and then watches nonchalantly as a cockroach climbs from its pants leg and scuttles across the floor.” Thus, LeBron really didn’t have much of a choice. Who among us would volunteer to spend their winters in Cleveland? Right. And not only that, the Teflon Don will be watching courtside. It’s deeper than ball. So you already know where this weekend’s soundtrack is coming from: 1. Miami Life by Ras Kass (G.D.) For the past couple of days and probably through the next couple of years, disparaging LeBron James has become something of a national pastime. If James built up any goodwill before this free-agency frenzy, he certainly seems to have squandered it now. A sampling of the World Wide Venom: Straight Bangin‘: “LeBron has [...] As a blogger who lives so far outside the Beltway that I can see Cuba from my condo, there’s little chance that any e-mail I’ve sent on a super-secret listserve would garner much attention. Which is too bad for the rest of you because, wow, I’ve said some pretty awful things about Thembi. However, Dave Weigel doesn’t have the luxury of such anonymity. As such, he’s been the talk of all the bloggers and pundits who already talk amongst each other on super-secret listserves for the past few days. Above all, some of those people want to know who dimed out Weigel. Normally I don’t believe in snitching unless it’s to my benefit. But if you’re looking for a possible suspect, you might wanna think about talking to Toure’s cousin. Just saying.
Anyway, there’s lots of other random things going on around the globe. Might as well get into some of it: With today marking the anniversary of Michael Jackson’s untimely death, we decided to go digging through the crates – also, through YouTube and iTunes – for an appropriate way to commemorate the occasion. We weren’t looking for any songs on “Off the Wall” or “Thriller.” And, ugh, certainly nothing from “Invincible.” No, we were [...] Hey, Negroes. We’re kinda like a big deal. At least, according to The Root. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You’re far too kind. Hold your applause. This is your blog, not mine. And now for more of what you all love: 1. President Obama refuses to protect our borders, complete an electric [...] If ever there was a state that deserved Senator Al Greene, it would definitely be South Carolina: Also, we could probably stand to tone down our self-righteous indignation at Greene and the voters in South Carolina’s Democratic primary. The Senate can’t be that exclusive. After all, “Diaper” David Vitter has a seat in [...] |
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