Obamarama
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Bill Maher has been all over the cable news talking about the president’s over-exposure, criticizing what he sees as inaction on Barack Obama’s part to enact change. He even goes so far as to say Obama needs to be more like Bush (only with demonstrably better ideas). He also makes the argument, one that I…
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First lady Michelle Obama is seated with her daughters Malia, center, and Sasha as they watch a jazz performance at a jazz workshop for students in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 15, 2009. More pictures via Daylife.
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Abandoned home, North St. Louis, 2007 (Urban Review STL)It’s called “shrink to survive” and it may be coming to a Rust Belt, Midwestern city near you. The idea is pretty simple. Big is bad in a bad economy. There are too many abandoned buildings and derelict homes in America’s cities, so rather than try to…
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdKgBFiMltE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Michele B.? Girl. You bore the shizz out of The Snob. You’re gonna have to come harder than “gangsta government” to raise my hackles. There are some subjects I choose to write about sparingly (or not write about at all). It’s not that they aren’t news or that other people aren’t talking about…
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See the First Lady Michelle Obama poses with other first ladies of the world for the UK’s edition of Vogue Magazine. (TrendHunter) Group photo after the jump.
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President Barack Obama, runs away from the family dog, Bo, during a brief break from meetings on the South Lawn of the White House May 12, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Gorge on Obama White House photos at the White House’s official Flickr page. More choice pictures after the jump.
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Where Melissa Harris-Lacewell left off Elon James White has picked up, ran and punted the trio of Cornel West, Michael Eric Dyson and Tavis Smiley. Taking the professor to task over some crazy ish he said in Rolling Stone, White wonders why Cornel West would say he would rather be in a “crack house” than…