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Who Cares?
On the morning of September 2nd, FEMA director Michael Brown complained about his schedule.
"Last hurrah was supposed to have been Labor Day," he whined in
Pope Benedict's Moral Compass
In the Vatican's rush to scapegoat all gay priests for the clergy abuse scandal, it has not just disparaged many innocent men. It has also ignored the many female victims …
ARTICLE: Fetuses Don't Count For Carpools, Court Says
I will no longer use the phrase "Now I've seen everything" ever again.
PHOENIX -- A judge says an Arizona woman's
A Deal with el Diablo: The Immigration Bill's Dirty Fine Print
Much of this country's legislative history is built on compromise. Indeed, deal making among lawmakers has contributed to a robust, if sometimes flawed, system of American democracy. One of the …
The Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Inducts Six
On June 12, the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame inducted seven new members Among the inductees were Teresa Edwards, Leta Andrews, Chris Weller, Teresa Weatherspoon, Gloria Ray, and Rebecca Lobo. …
A bird flu vaccination in the hand, is worth seven billion in the Bush
Bad title, I know. But do you see the many reasons that I just had to?
Kwanzaa's coming up
I was excited to see that Yahoo! Avatars had a few Kwanzaa backgrounds.
At least this is something I don't have to keep sending feedback for. I've asked for dreadlocks and for them to move the Afro out of the Halloween section, but …
Hey Palin: The ‘Death Panels' Are Already Here, Darlin'
Over on Salon, Mike Madden responds to ex-Gov. Sarah Palin's latest idiocy, stating what should be obvious to all of us: The "death panels" are already here:
CNN Money Wants to Hear from Jacksonians on Inauguration
All, CNN Money editor Amy Haimerl -- a very good friend of mine and the JFP -- is working on CNN Money's "real people" galleries. In advance of the inauguration, …
A ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission' for Mississippi?
What do y'all think?
Rev. Ross Olivier of Galloway mentioned an article written recently by my former professor and mentor Howard Ball about the need to establish a "Truth and Reconcolition Commission" here. I …
Back from Iraq
Last year, we were all on edge.
"I'm not making fruit salad!" my mother affirmed -- more than once -- as Christmas approached. She gleaned the fruit salad recipe from my dad's grandpa years ago. No one …
Back from San Francisco
Todd and I are just back from several very busy days at two alternative newspaper conferences in San Francisco—one a Web conference and the other AAN West, which is the …
keeping it real
After multi-dozens of radio and TV interviews, magazines stories (ones I've written and ones I've been featured in), I am feeling so disconnected from my trip to Africa. A book …
Our Broken (Mental) Health System
This is a first in a series of columns and comments on mental health in Mississippi.
Baker Report: Bush Iraq Policy ‘Not Working'
Now, here's a surprise. Bush and Cheney's Iraqi War has not worked. They have underreported the level of violence in Iraq. They need to try a bit of diplomacy. The …
Where have the Mississippi Democrats gone?
Mississippi leads the list - or is at the bottom - on many national statistics.
Our educational system lends many of our young people to opt out of graduation for a life on the streets or perpetual poverty.
Catholic Guilt
Flowood police are investigating why a 28-year-old deliberately cut off his penis.
Did anyone catch this in the CL today?
Family Feels the Backlash of their Confessions after Brokaw Special
As I normally do on Thursdays, I was reading the Jackson Advocate and the Mississippi Link for news stories that I may have missed or that they exclusively covered. This …
Herman Taylor, "Mr. Whipple" and Martha Stewart's mother: RIP
Herman Taylor, former city employee and radio personality, died from emphysema at age 62.
Pill of Religious Satire on South Park too hard for Issac Hayes to Swallow
Hayes, who has played the ladies' man/school cook in the animated Comedy Central satire since 1997, said in a statement Monday that he feels a line has been crossed.
