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Death Penalty Doesn't Deliver
This month marks 30 years since the death penalty was reinstated in the United States. In the past 30 years, we as Americans have executed 1,031 people. Are we better …
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Art By Chance
"It was just meant to be," says Elyse Savitch, owner of District Fine Arts in Washington, D.C. "I was just walking by and happened to notice her sandals. I commented …
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[Kamikaze] Daytime Drama
On my most recent trip to New York, I sat in my hotel room and watched in amazement at how much coverage the Star Jones/Barbara Walters debacle received. Sandwiched right …
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[Stiggers] Smacked Like Mammy
Boneqweesha Jones: "It's time for Boneqweesha's Entertainment Tonight report! This show is not associated with the B.E.T. network. I have the exclusive audio from a brief phone conversation between Sista …
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[Greggs] Missing The Window
I first heard the phrase "missing the window" in my youth. It quite possibly was gleaned from one summer's obsession with the movie "Space Camp." You know the one, right? …
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Amazing Grace
Grace House is a local homeless shelter for people suffering from HIV and AIDS. Many people, due to the stigma of this illness, lose family, friends and ultimately, their ability …
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Melton Aiming at Gun Shows Again
The Clarion-Ledger is reporting today that Frank Melton is again trying to close down gun shows, as well as other guns shops. Could it be that this is the reason …
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Clarion-Ledger: Wilcher Must Die
In an editorial today, The Clarion-Ledger explains its support of the death penalty and why it is good that the state is going to kill Bobby Glen Wilcher today:
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Just Like A (Super)man
"Superman Returns" is a pseudo-sequel to the first two Christopher Reeve Superman movies. Superman (played by Brandon Routh this time around) has returned after a five-year absence to a world …
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The Medical Malpractice Myth Exposed ... Again
We dared to write about the complicated "Hoodwinked" myths that have sprung up around the issue of tort reform nearly three years ago, as propagated locally by The Clarion-Ledger's "jackpot …
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ARTICLE: Hampton Business School Sticks by Requirement for "Conservative" Hairstyles
You know, I guess this issue would not bother me so much if it did not involve a historically black university. It is a shame when African Americans discriminate against …
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I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cuculoupes
A Houma, LA, homeowner finds an interesting species of vege-melon growing among her cucumbers and cantaloupes. Thanks to accidental crossbreeding, I'm able to post an article with a silly title.
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ARTICLE: Slavery reparations gaining momentum
When the average American hears the term "slavery reparations", he or she may think of radicals who are only making noise to start trouble and get free government money. Well, …
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Barbour Supports Civil Rights Museum
[The following letter is verbatim from Gov. Barbour to the Civil Rights Museum Federation Committee at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History]
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Whistling Dixie
Crossroads and the JFP present "C.S.A." Monday, July 10th at 7 p.m. at New Stage Theatre. Tickets are $7 and $5 for members.
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Super Group:Fishbone, Janes Addiction, Bad brains, Suicidal Tendencies Hawaiian Lyon
MR.GREEN ALL-STARS "Seeing Is Believing" and Summer Publicity Tour Announced at 12 Noon July 11, 2006 The touring lineup features the funky, punk, bass lines of Norwood Fisher, from Fishbone, …
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Ask a Ninja: Funniest Website Ever
My college-aged brother CJ turned me on to Ask a Ninja a few months ago when I visited him in Washington State. I don't remember to go back often enough, …
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ARTICLE: The New Crime: Wearing Dreadlocks While Walking
Okay, the New Orleans victims of Hurricane Katrina have had to deal with death, destruction, losing everything they hold dear and governmental neglect. Now they have to face racial profiling …
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Jason Molina To Release Two Albums
type of songs he did on his more experimental albums, The Ghost, and Protection Spells.
2006 marks the tenth year that Jason Molina and Secretly Canadian have worked together and to celebrate, they are... uh... doing what they normally do... release records! August 22 will …
