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Notice something about that clip? A very cool post on the Wilhelm Scream from io9. (Hat-tip: TooSense).

  An interesting question posed by On The Media: how do you satirize Obama and Clinton without veering into territory that might be labeled a racist or misogynist? They talked to editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson about reactions to his caricatures and professor Elaine Miller about the way Geraldine Ferraro was depicted in editorial cartoons in Read More

Something’s been plaguing us for years now. As African American Children of the Eighties, we’ve grown up in the overwhelming shadow of one particularly enduring television show, and yesterday’s episode of Oprah, with its surprise cast reunion, really opened Pandora’s box of post-bourgie pontification.

Gangs Turn To Social Networking Sites To Recruit Young people who visit social networking sites to download music and pictures glorifying criminal street gangs can unwittingly set themselves up to be recruited by those gangs, according to law enforcement officials and youth counselors. San Mateo Police Chief Susan Manheimer, who speaks for the San Mateo Read More

    Minority cartoonists say they are tired of being lumped together on America’s comic strip pages and this Sunday plan to “mock the idea that their work is interchangeable” by using an identical strip. In each strip, the artists will portray a white reader grousing about a minority-drawn strip, complaining that it’s a “Boondocks” Read More

So the guy behind those two SalesGenie.com Super Bowl ads is the chief executive of the company that owns SalesGenie, and not an outside ad agency. Vinod Gupta — who described himself as half-Indian and half-Jewish — apologized in a New York Times article and said he was going to stop running the panda ad. Read More
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