This is the tenth (or so) in my occasional series of “Right-Wing Lies.” Now I know there are some left-wing lies, too. (It’s not true that 1 in 5 college women are raped, for instance. Nor is it true that black teens are 21 times more likely to be shot and killed by police than…
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Can I just say I can’t believe that we have a president of the United States who dares to say, even in jest:, “In the Heezee. Waz’ up!” I love it. And if you think Obama is “unpresidential,” go back and look at Bush looking under the table [at 5:10 and 5:55] for non-existent weapons…
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At the closing of Obama’s inauguration, Joseph Lowery said these controversial words: “We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace…
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This might be the last thing I write about the inauguration. But the Onion, as usual, has a very funny story.
The Great Blacks in Wax Museum unveiled their Obama statue. Pictures in the Baltimore Sun. That’s Rep. Elijah Cummings on the right. He’s flesh and blood. Now you might think I’m writing The Great Black in Wax Museum because of some thinly veiled hipster irony in this supposed post-racial era. Actually, no. I just like…
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See the cartoon by Tom Tomorrow in Salon.com.
Three Cheers! I enjoyed the afternoon but was a little disappointed with Obama’s speech. I thought he said all the right things. I liked it. But I don’t think, unlike his race speech, that this was a speech for the ages. Oh well. [update: John Dickerson at Slate.com agrees with me.] I wonder when right-wing…
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Here’s to the peaceful transition of power and a belated thanks to George Washington. Washington started a great tradition more than 200 years ago: he voluntarily stepping down from power rather than become a power-hungry dictator. Thanks, George. Here’s just a sampling of reports from elsewhere. One from Kenya and another from Turkey.
No. But still, read this piece by John H. Richardson from Esquire.com.