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I’d like to make you all aware of a new post category we’ll be employing: “X May Very Well Be Racist, But This Doesn’t Prove It.” It’s a phrase we at PB say a LOT amongst ourselves when it comes to the various racegates that seem to pop up regularly. After calls from Barack Obama Read More

[clearspring_widget title=”Late Night with Jimmy Fallon – Slow Jam The News (3/2/09)” wid=”4727a250e66f9723″ pid=”49ad53840b046292″ width=”425″ height=”308″ domain=”widgets.nbc.com”] My love for the Legendary Roots Crew is well-known, but I don’t if I can sit through Fallon every night. He seems harmless enough (basically the principal requirement of a late night host) but sooner or later he’s Read More

[clearspring_widget title=”Late Night with Jimmy Fallon – First Video Blog (12/8/08)” wid=”4727a250e66f9723″ pid=”493ed99a42f0d57e” width=”384″ height=”283″ domain=”widgets.nbc.com”] I’ve been trying to ignore this for awhile, but there’s no getting around it now. On one hand, I empathize. Those cats do hundreds of dates a year, and they’re not getting any younger. But a house band for a “comedian” Read More

Two weeks ago, on my way back to NYC after a brief visit home in Philly, I found myself sitting across the aisle from ?uestlove on the Amtrak train. I’m a huge Roots fan, so the fact that I didn’t get all Stan-ish is on the order of the miraculous. We spoke briefly, and he Read More