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I’m not a smoker and I think smoking is horribly unhealthy, but as someone who lived in California where smokers are persecuted and treated like leapers — dude, can folks lighten up a little? It’s not like he’s dropping acid. But for your perusal, further evidence of our Puritanical nature about everything in America. Blame…
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The Chicago Tribune’s Exploring Race blog has posed the question “What if Michelle Obama was white?” This “well, duh” question has already been explored by most black blogs and the universal answer is that he wouldn’t have even been a senator, let alone president. But they asked anyway, you know, for poops and giggles I…
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It only took Fred Armisen and SNL a year, but they finally did a Barack parody that made sense and was funny (I do enjoy 1960s Rat Pack vibes). This is largely because they finally gave (fake) Barack a personality other than have him play the foil or straight man to Amy Poehler’s Hillary Clinton…
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There can only be one!!! A bevvy of possible gown ideas from Women’s Wear Daily from some clearly interested designers: Who says these are bleak times? On one matter at least, designers are positively euphoric. That is the Obama presidency, a two-part point of light. While much of the glee centers around the President-elect and…
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Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have made history, but what about everyone else? You know? All those other politicians, business folk and entertainers who might have had the “BEST. YEAR. EVA!” if Obamamania hadn’t swept the world and Barack Obama hadn’t become the 44th president of the United States. I’ve alluded to this in a…
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New Obama Administration members Desiree Rogers and Valerie Jarrett with Linda Rice Johnson of Ebony Magazine (left-to-right) at a social event. Rogers and Jarrett will be part of the Obama White House team. Beautiful and brilliant, I have to say I’ve been so far impressed with the black women who are popping up as potential…
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No big surprise. Ebony Magazine has named Barack Obama as the “Person of the Year.” If the election of the first African-American president does not stand out as a landmark event in the history of a magazine founded for African-American readers in 1942 and now reaching 12 million readers, it’s difficult to imagine what does.…
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