When she drops out of the race, this blog will return to explore, with critical thinking, the national litmus test that is a Black (by U.S. standards) major party political candidate.
In the meantime, my patient June 3 audience, chew on this news of Obama as Curious George:
www.patrickruffini.com/2008wire/go/353340
That’s odd- President Bush is the one who [...]
In tribute to the late Dick Thompson:
http://www.baystatebanner.com/issues/2008/03/20/news/blackhistory03200890.htm
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He will be missed:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/02/07/dick_thompson_va_nurse_devoted_baseball_writer_52/
You may leave the family a message here:
http://www.legacy.com/BostonGlobe/De…onId=100883427
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I’ll be doing some travel radio guesting here:
http://www.traveln-on.com/
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Our last column for Sports Central here:
www.sports-central.org/sports/2008/02/07/finally_a_monk_in_the_shrine.php
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As announced, the website for the new organization DC Basketball has gone live:
www.dcbasketball.com
From here on in, Pop Culture will be retreating from the blogosphere, as we focus our efforts in that medium to specialized blogs concerning ventures in which we are involved- our documentary film:
http://bbayne.blogspot.com
and DC Basketball (whose accompanying blog is at http://dcbasketball.wordpress.com)
Outside the ’sphere, [...]
Shades of Mapplethorpe in conservative Cincy:
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20080128/ENT/301280061/
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El Tigre won the Buick Open going away. What effect does such success have on one’s competitors?
http://www.slate.com/id/2182671
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Part Three in a series at the Freakonomics blog:
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/what-do-real-thugs-think-of-the-wire-part-three/
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Interesting that President Bush has dumbed down his job to the extent that primary voters can conceive of a Black man or a woman doing it:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/28/sotu.main/index.html
That may turn out to be his enduring contribution to the process.
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Looks like Rudy Giuliani wasn’t the only big city mayor wooing his lover on the city’s dime:
www.clickondetroit.com/news/15147278/detail.html
Mayor Kilpatrick’s Chief of Staff Christine Beatty was married at the time of the Colorado trip. What’s with metro mayors and sex scandals- remember L.A.’s Antonio Villaraigosa and Telemundo reporter Mirthala Salinas ? San Francisco’s Gavin Newsom and his city [...]
New basketball blog here:
http://dcbasketball.wordpress.com
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And so does his niece:
www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/01/ted_kennedy_end.html
In the wake of a primary victory where he garnered double the voting percentage of Senator Clinton in South Carolina, Senator Obama earns the endorsement of The First Family of American Politics- a family long friendly with the Clinton’s.
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The institution that lost its glitter with Vanessa the Undresser takes another hit:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/01/25/mock.ms.america.ap/index.html
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Pro immediate troop withdrawal, pro environment, pro reparations for you-know-who:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/24/kucinich-getting-out/
You gotta love a guy who made a Cleveland high school football team as a 5′6″, 135 lb. quarterback.
Popular author echoes growing national sentiment:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/01/24/best.selling.christian.ap/index.html
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Hey, crazy sells:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/24/diagnosing.britney.ap/index.html
Besides, it’s not like we have Anna Nicole around any more.
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When the DC Basketball website goes live, our blogging attention wil be focused here:
http://dcbasketball.wordpress.com
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From the mouth of babes:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/24/5-year-old-quizzes-bill-clinton-on-marriage/
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Induces vertigo, without a Hitch:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/01/24/movie.sickness/index.html
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