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By now, most people have heard or read about veteran NBA player Jason Collins revealing that he is gay. It’s only newsworthy because Collins is a current and not retired player, as John Amaechi was when he revealed that he was gay. Generally, the news was met with congratulatory remarks and vows of support. ESPN even [...]
Yesterday, Jason Collins decided to come forward with an announcement that he was gay. I was real happy for him and I made sure to let him finish but when you hear an announcement like that, you always have to stop and think for a second. I reviewed my timeline on Twitter and my newsfeed [...]
LL Cool J high again, y’all. All jokes aside, LL Cool J has made news lately because his song with Country music singer, Brad Paisley has sparked controversy. The song, “Accidental Racist” features some very “odd lyrics.” Although LL Cool J and Brad Paisley still support the song and its lyrics, they appear to welcome [...]
I absolutely loathe Tyler Perry movies. I think they’re horrible, poorly plotted and executed movies – like each and every one of them is just bad. If there was a way to give half stars, every Tyler Perry movie I’ve ever seen would get no stars. Despite the fact that I don’t like his movies, [...]
As children, we were taught about not talking to strangers and inappropriate touching from adults; not about rape and sexual assault. Despite that, I can’t ever remember growing up in an environment that encouraged or condoned rape. Not once, not never, not even for a few moments do I remember being in an environment that [...]
What happens when men make boyish jokes at a tech conference and their picture gets tweeted? People get fired. At least that’s what happened this past week. The smoke’s still billowing from the internet inferno that followed the aforementioned. Let me tell you what happened in case you missed the hoopla. Adria Richards, a developer [...]
I always have mixed feelings about teen pregnancies. I’m not going to throw my foot all the way to the back of my mouth but I will speak on a few things as carefully as I can with respect to how I feel about the topic. I believe that children should be given the best [...]
“We’re still in a recession. We’re not going to be out of it for a while, but we will get out.” Warren Buffet uttered those words and yet this nation remains dangling off the cliff of fiscal calamity. When President Obama ran for the White House in 2008, he called President Bush’s $10 trillion dollars [...]
Pretty rough day for The Onion. I don’t want to give the story too much more play because I think it was actually a publicity stunt that they knew would incite this reaction and drive a ton of traffic their way. I’ve always said, the best way to treat situations like these is to completely [...]
Incoming message: Please remind the following that there are rules associated with this thing called real life. (CC: Chris Brown, Rick Ross) I’ve long said that hip hop (and I’ll include Chris Brown in that industry for now, although he’s a pop artist moonlighting in the hip hop community) was just a grown-up version of [...]
