Flashback Friday

“Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos” - Public Enemy. From one of their best albums.

Barbara Walters Comes Out

She came out earlier this week to announce that she had a multi-year affair with a black man back in the wild and crazy 70s. Who was that man? None other than Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts (pictured below).

Walters said that he was “brilliant” and “exciting.” They ended the affair because they both knew [...]

The NY Times Sunday Mag Cover (4/29)

Nah, y’all are not being brainwashed. It’s just a carefully posed picture of two effeminate young men enjoying a cookout in a suburban setting appearing in the nation’s largest ‘news’paper.

Shades Of Gaza: U.S. Military Begins Walling Off Sadr City

“Trying to stem the infiltration of militia fighters, American forces have begun to build a massive concrete wall that will partition Sadr City, the densely populated Shiite neighborhood in the Iraqi capital.
“The construction, which began Tuesday night, is intended to turn the southern quarter of Sadr City near the international Green Zone into a protected [...]