New political/media watch site is launching today, The Black Retort, aka THE RETORT, edited by moi and starring a cadre of you favorite most outspoken and interesting bloggers from hither and tither including Jay Anderson of AverageBro, Christopher Chambers of Nat Turner’s Revenge, Cheryl Contee of Jack & Jill Politics, Charles D. Ellison of The

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Gotta a problem? Don’t know what to do? Nia Orms has just the therapist to help you at her clinic of multi-personality therapy. Get answers from folks like the hottest Puerto Rican mami in the world Josie (You can’t stop looking at her! Just try!) or empathic, Negro-friendly white girl Briana (she feels your struggle)

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Sarah Palin announced Friday in the worst executed Friday news dump ever that she is stepping down from her governorship almost immediately, “in a few weeks” up in the frozen tundra of Alaska. Aside from my general reaction of whatthefuckjusthappend I have to say, oh REALLY, Palinator? You’re quitting Alaska. O RLY? Oh really, Sarah…

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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnpil_pRUiw&hl=en&fs=1&] It’s time for the top three comments of the week (and to pick a winner) who will receive a lovely, humorous, black history themed, BlackSnob original postcard. What were our commenters chatting about this week? More after the jump.

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Found this intersting tidbit on the ol’ HuffPo this morning — Unemployment is gonna hit a 26-year-high! Break out the balloons, Top Ramen and Boones Farm! The Great Brokacalypse of 2009 staggers on! From Huffington Post: WASHINGTON — Out-of-work with no place to land, the legions of America’s unemployed are growing. The Labor Department is…

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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dZIqv3LRJE&hl=en&fs=1&] President Barack Obama is a terrible flirt. He gets all the Republican’s hot and bothered with his woo pitchin’ only to turn all shy after all the bipartisan Super Bowl soirees and romantic White House lunches. The flowers. The candy. The ambassadorships. Now nothing. Where’s the love, Eric Cantor asks? I’d argue it’s…

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Many of us don’t like to think about it, but a lot of us are one bad, medical emergency from poverty — even if you have insurance. What’s supposed to be there in an emergency can be easily ripped away with the stroke of one red pen. The New York Times took a look at…

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