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Oh did you miss the South Carolina GOP debate? Well you’re in luck because clips of the amazing contest of wits are all over the place. Below is the magical response Newt Gingrich gave when asked about some of the more racially insensitive things he said. Watch as the audience boo Fox contributor Juan Williams as he asks questions about racial issues.
There seems to be a strange phenomenon in the political climate of race today.
I first noticed it during the 2010 Supreme Court confirmation of Elena Kagan. The search for her liberal past seemed to center around the fact that Kagan had clerked for Supreme Court judge and civil rights veteran Thurgood Marshall. Working for Marshall, who served the lead attorney who argued the case of Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court, was taken as evidence, not of Kagan’s qualification, but as evidence of racial bias. In the political climate created by the culture of color blindness, the attempt to try and ignore that anyone has a race at all, suddenly anyone who worked on behalf of racial equality is now at fault.
Remember Ted Williams? The homeless man with the golden voice. He blew up the internet last year when he was found and went from homeless to being in every newspaper, magazine and TV show. He was given jobs and was reunited with his children and his mother. 1 year later you may be surprised that Mr. Williams is living a life that may be better than yours. Check out this segment on Williams’ currently lifestyle…
While scrolling through Google+ this morning I ran across this video of LIQUIPEL. As a Smart phone owner who has had various…ahem…situations with my phone (no, I did NOT drop my phone in a bathtub…you can’t prove that) so seeing this made me squeal with glee. Check out this video and tell me you don’t want this immediately.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 has a playable demo and is available for download on both the Xbox Live Marketplace and Playstation Network. The sequel unfortunately hasn’t quite fixed the problem of the original. You still aren’t quite doing anything. You aren’t pressing any buttons. You aren’t engaging the environment or the battles in any tangible way. The original was a game you could comfortably play one-handed and the sequel is similar with small improvements.
The big fuss this week is over the new book released today about the President and first lady called The Obamas by New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor. An excerpt of the book appeared in the Sunday New York Times and immediately everyone began to put their own spin on the meaning of the book.
Before I read the excerpt, I saw that Salon writer Joan Walsh had tweeted:
Walsh went on to warn that the spin about the meaning of the book would probably reflect earlier efforts to demonize Michelle Obama as mannish, or a closeted, angry black nationalist.
Other folks on the internet have framed the story as depicting a first lady Michelle Obama as a particularly meddling and bossy, driving off staff members, and dictating the direction of the West Wing by ‘leading from behind.’
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Friend of the Show, Melissa Harris-Perry appeared on The Colbert Report last night talking about her book Sister Citizen. Check her out and get ready for her brand new Television show on MSNBC starting in February. Magic shall ensue. |
Drake & Common don’t have beef. They have textured vegetable protein that if prepared correctly can pass for beef…sometimes…
— Elon James White (@elonjames) January 9, 2012
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