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  • The Snob won as the people’s choice for Best Blog Post Series on “Black Conservatives on Obama” and as the judges pick for Best Writing. Which is something every writer likes the hear. It’s like telling me I’m pretty. Congratulations to all the winners and thank you, fellow snobs, for voting for moi!

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  • TJ Holmes in an article from USA Today, an article about “upscale” bowling alleys that offer a little fancy pants nosh with a seven-to-ten split. Holmes is talking about Atlanta’s Ten Pin Alley where they make “gourmet junk food,” including surf-n-turf corn dogs, sticks of lobster, Kobe beef deep-fried and served with honey mustard dipping…

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  • Some quotes from two high profile, female Obama supporters on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s slap down of their candidate Wednesday night: Representative Debbie Wasserman Shultz of Florida “There was no vision of where she thinks the country should go,” Representative Debbie Wasserman Shultz of Florida said in a call with reporters arranged by the Democratic…

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  • Doomed Romance: Mr. Wrong

    This story is a part of The Black Snob’s two-week series, “Doomed Romance,” tales of love lost and love gone wrong. For more click here. They say everything that feels good to you isn’t good for you. That was the lesson learned by this Doomed Romance contributor. She fell in love with a man who…

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  • Snob’s play cousin AverageBro has a run down on all the big speeches last night at the Republican National Convention. Since I was barely conscious from Mayor 9-11 giving his “9-11, 9-11, POW, POW” speech, I can’t give a full wrap up. So check out cuz’s take. You’re guaranteed to get a giggle or three.…

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  • HRC, your legacy is under threat by a barn-burning, “Feminist For Life” from Wasilla, Alaska. Whatcha gonna do? As I watched Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin’s “Pitbull with lipstick” speech Wednesday night I wondered, “What is Hillary Rodham Clinton thinking?” I only say this because I can’t imagine that it sets well that Palin, a woman…

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  • Detroit, your long local nightmare is over. Kwame “Lady Killer” Kilpatrick has come to his senses: DETROIT – Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to felony charges Thursday in a sex-and-misconduct scandal and will step down after months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the nation’s 11th-largest city. He was ordered jailed for four months…

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