Random Observations: My Opinion in 5 Minutes Or Less

Recently I’ve seen a few things that were a little strange, and begged the question, is it just me or is this just all kinds of wrong?  Too old for tank tops – I saw an older woman with gray hair wearing a midriff top.  Now, she wasn’t that much bigger than this girl in [...]

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Eyebrow Weave: Straight Foolishness Foolery

Why Lord? Why? And I saw this mess after watching the BET awards. Straight foolishness. A piece of my soul died after watching BET for 3 1/2 hours last night. The other half wept at this video. Who thought this was OK?  Child, boo. Extra boo on you for doing that to yourself.

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WTF? Bring Your Handguns To the Altar?

A pastor in the US state of Kentucky told his flock to bring handguns to church in what he said was an effort to promote safe gun ownership.   Pastor Ken Pagano told parishioners to bring their unloaded guns to New Bethel Church in Louisville for a service celebrating the right to bear arms. He [...]

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Do Better: BET Awards 2009

Overall thoughts of this uber-long show: 1. The highlight: When Janet Jackson walked out. Janet’s first appearance as the selected family member to speak sobered up the show.She looked like a family member in mourning. Joe Jackson on the other hand… 2. Why was Joe Jackson there? No, really, why was Joe Jackson there? Your [...]

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Lupe Fiasco’s Tribute to M.J.

Note: If you’ve read the blog for a minute, you should know of my undying Lupe love. Anyway, I don’t know if I’m just in a goofy mood today or what, but I’ve been laughing all afternoon at videos I’m finding online. This is Lupe during a recent concert in Chicago last night. He stopped [...]

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Obama Made Him Do It!!!!

Aww lawd, the audio clip below made me laugh sooo hard. Apparently Rush Limbaugh has found a connection between the cheating S.C. governor and President Obama. Give a listen: Obama’s trying to kill spirit! Sanford was just trying to govern and then Obama came in with all that stimulus talk and just messed him up. [...]

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OMG, Ya’ll Have Got to Do Better: Florida, Get Your People

I haven’t written a Do Better post in a minute. But this story was just crying out to make it into the series.  MIAMI (Reuters) – A fight broke out on a Florida bus when news of Michael Jackson’s death sparked debate over whether he should be remembered as a great musical talent, and one [...]

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Human Nature: Remembering Michael Jackson

This continues my tribute to Michael Jackson. My favorite M.J. songs combined with some of his greatest music videos.

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Remembering Michael Jackson

“Oh Lord!! Not M.J.!” was the first text message I received yesterday evening while I was at work. During the break all of my coworkers and I went to the break room and saw the news on the screen. Michael Jackson died at the age of 50 from a cardiac arrest. Although he had been experiencing [...]

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Casting Out the Gay Demon Spirit?

CNN did a story yesterday on a Connecticut church that performed an exorcism to cast out the demon spirit of homosexuality in teenage boy. Now, if you’ve read my post on homophobia in the black community, you’ll see how I feel about the belief that casting out the demon spirit of homosexuality will erase the [...]

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