Watching Hillary Clinton’s latest bipolar attempts at campaigning it made me think of this song popularized by Frank Sinatra, “Something Stupid. Of course, Clinton’s version, unlike Sinatra’s droll stroll would be more like what I cobbled together below: I know I stand in line, until you think you have the timeTo go to the primaryAnd…

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I started noticing this male fashion trend a year ago when Kanye West’s video “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” came out. In the video he’s in the desert, doing his “I’m trying to be really fucking deep” thing when I noticed the over sized printed scarf around his neck, donned like an oversize bandanna. I thought…

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After all that auditioning and jawing SNL regular (and a white guy) Fred Armisen got that chance to play “Fauxbama.” He did the best he could with some light brown pancake make-up and some not-quite-right hand gestures. It was like his fingers were going for classic Arsenio Hall. It wasn’t bad. It wasn’t good. It…

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Ralph Nader just told Tim Russert (who’s asking him about being a “spoiler” to the Democratic race again) that if the Democrats can’t win this year “they might as well shut down.” He couldn’t convince of a populace that wouldn’t vote for John McCain who he said is for “perpetual war and intervention” and for…

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Neither of us went to the State of the Black Union forum. Hell, I didn’t even watch it. Does that make me a bad Negro? I’ve watched it before on C-SPAN. I don’t know if it’s because I was inundated with “blackness” as a child so I’ve become immune to these sort of things. How…

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I’m doing some fiddling around with the site right now in light of the “under development” sign on the SCAN site. I’m trying to make them look similar, yet different. I also wanted a cleaner look for The Black Snob. So, things are going to be a little out of sorts this weekend, but I’ll…

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Happy Saturday everyone, Thurgood (left) and I wanted to let all the regular readers know that I’ve started a second site were I will cross post my “SCAN” newsletters. (Being a bunch of old prudes, SCAN didn’t really know much about blogging or any of that fancy high tech stuff.) I’m also looking for contributers…

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