The Wire

TSO hopes you’ve been watching. This season is the final for the best show on TV for the last several years. We are about three episodes into this season and it looks to be as good as the previous seasons. This year the show focuses on how the media, specifically the local newspaper, [...]

American Idol Is Back!

“It’s the biggest show in television by a mile,” said Mike Darnell, Fox’s president of alternative entertainment. “It’s going to be huge. I don’t know how it’s going to do relative to where it was last year or the year before, but I never want to guess that anymore, because years I thought it was [...]

And Don’t Hate on Wesley

Wesley Snipes was set to go on trial Monday on tax evasion charges. The IRS claims that Snipes did not pay taxes from 1999 to 2004 on $38 million. Snipes’ argument: He is not legally bound to pay taxes. His defense is based on the 861 argument.from-wikipediaUnder the tax protesters’ section 861 argument, [...]

Two Things I Never Quite Understood . . .

1) Why all black folks claim to be “part Indian.” I (J) went to dinner with a few people the other night and one psuedo-militant brotha started talking about how his grandfather was a “full-blooded Indian,” as if everyone at the table was supposed to say, “Ooooooh!” GTFOOH!

2) Why black folks angrily claim the ancient [...]

The Wages Of Sin

A black woman I met at a local event the other day said the following to Ike’s Mama and me (J): “I have been around the block a million times and I can tell you that all of the negative things in my life are the result of my own bad actions, my own sin. [...]