IMUS: GONE From NBC!!

“Most women can’t dunk, so how do we explain what happened Tuesday to Don Imus at Rutgers?
“How do we explain how 10 college women, none of them particularly well-known nor even remotely as recognizable as the now-radioactively infamous “I-Man,” completely outclassed and outsmarted a man who has spent nearly 40 years in the public eye?
“How [...]

Quote of the Day: Buddhasa

“Physical happiness is not that hard to come by, but spiritual happiness is difficult to attain. Physical happiness is easy to see and know, but spiritual happiness is more elusive. Still, there are few people who accept these truths, because they believe that when the physical body is happy, the mind automatically becomes happy, too [...]

NFL Suspends Pacman Jones For Season

“Roger Goodell cracked down Tuesday on the player misconduct that’s plagued his first seven months as NFL commissioner, suspending Tennessee’s Adam “Pacman” Jones for the 2007 season and Cincinnati’s Chris Henry for eight games.

“It is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right,” Goodell said in a statement. “These players and all members of [...]

On Black Culture

An excerpts from William Jelani Cobb’s collection of essays pictured above. Pryor told The New York Times Magazine in 1975 “I think there’s a thin line between being a Tom and [depicting] human beings. When I do the people I have to do it true. If I can’t do it, I’ll stop right in the [...]

Book Review: Noam Chomsky’s "Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance"

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds a copy of Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival in front of the U.N.
I (J) have just completed reading Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance, the book made famous by Hugo Chavez during his “devil speech” at the UN. The central thesis of Hegemony is that [...]