Baby Snob!!! Don’t hate! I just found this old picture of my little sister. She started striking “supermodel” poses around age two or three. She didn’t stop making them until she was about thirteen. I just felt like sharing.

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Sen. Barack Obama campaigning for former Rep. Harold Ford Jr.’s failed bid for the senate in Tennessee in 2006. (Getty Images) This article is part of an on-going series on black political thought on Barack Obama. In the past I’ve profiled the views of black Republicans, centrists and conservatives. Today’s feature is on DLC Chairman…

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Gabrielle UnionSexy Hustler Big Sis is a huge Gabrielle Union fan even if the girl is hardly ever in anything worth watching. (A remake of “The Honeymooners,” Gabby? Really?) But most of Big Sis’ love for Gabby is because she covets Gabby’s gorgeous mahogany skin tone. We Snobs turn this sort of reddish brown when…

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Havana, Cuba and its capitol building meant to resemble our capitol in Washington, DC, a marker of once friendlier times. Listening to John McCain pander to Miami over Barack Obama and Raul Castro made me think again about Joan Didion’s book “Miami,” which goes into incredible detail about struggle over Cuba between the exiles who…

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Oh, joyous day! I’m on the radio! We’ll be discussing embattled Detroit Mayor and text message pornographer Kwame Kilpatrick, amongst other things. I’ll be on around 12:40 p.m. St. Louis time. If you still want to listen but can’t be there and square, I’ll post a link to the audio on the blog later today.

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He won Oregon and she won Kentucky (by a somewhat disturbingly large margin), but when it comes to who I want to post pictures of you know who wins hands down. We can all admit it. We’re junkies. So roll up your sleeves, bite a pencil and smack that vein so you can get your…

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Is it still not June? Is this still going on? I know, I know. A lot of people want it to keep going. This is a historic election, these are historic candidates, blah, blah, blah, bullshit. I know it’s historic. But, I don’t really feel like writing about that today. CNN is talking about Ted…

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