To update the earlier post – that same site has McGruder’s appearance on Nightline. Definitely worth the watch.

Check mediastar‘s entry on the MLK “Niggas” episode from The Boondocks. Holy shit. I was originally skeptical about the Boondocks TV show. I just didn’t know if McGruder could translate his particular genius into the longer form. But this is brilliant, and he couldn’t have done it in a strip. I’m glad McGruder took this one on. I’ve written on

Honestly, could the reality of it be any weirder than the very idea? Watch clip… [THX: Rob in Lafayette.]

This is interesting. I wonder if other banks will follow suit. BB&T Corp. will not lend to commercial developers that plan to build condominiums, shopping malls and other private projects on land taken from private citizens by government entities using eminent domain, the bank holding company said Wednesday. “The idea that a citizen’s property can be taken by the government

Only 33 percent of Southeastern residents believe the country is heading in the right direction economically, a percentage that mirrors the national average, according to RBC’s Southeastern Consumer Attitudes and Spending by Household Index. (Story.) Hunh. It’s a puzzler, all right. But hey, as long as we make sure queers in Boston can’t get married…. :xpost:

My two favorite NFL teams are the Panthers and Broncos. I’m an NC native and I lived in Colorado for 10 years, so there you go. I was therefore hoping for a Black & Blue & Predominately Orange kinda Sunday yesterday, you know? I didn’t know which team I’d be rooting for if both made the Super Bowl – probably

Nobody in America – nobody – wants to spend Saturday afternoon watching a relegation derby in feckin’ January. When West Brom and Sunderland are playing to get into Europe instead of playing to stay out of the Championship flight, get back to me. Until then, please, something a bit more, I don’t know, relevant? Like old Chelsea training footage or

Well, here’s a fine howdy-do. The Vatican is bitch-slapping American creationists. Vatican Paper Hits ‘Intelligent Design’ By NICOLE WINFIELD (Associated Press Writer) January 18, 2006 4:45 PM EST VATICAN CITY – The Vatican newspaper has published an article saying “intelligent design” is not science and that teaching it alongside evolutionary theory in school classrooms only creates confusion. The article in

Okay, a question. Has it really been two days since Joey Porter called out the NFL with no response from the league aside from its announcement that yes, in fact, the refs really really fucked up? Surely we should have seen him keelhauled, poleaxed, drawn-and-quartered by now, right? What does this mean?

sirpaulsbuddy is wondering about some of the same stuff I am, looks like. Via e-mail: Between the pass interference call in the Denver/NE game and the no pass interference call in the Indy/Pittsburgh game, you have to wonder. And let’s don’t mention Troy Hoopdedoo’s interception that got taken away on challenge. Uh-huh. And let’s don’t forget the “do-over” on the

Some stray thoughts on the Broncos/Pats game. 1: The better team won, albeit with a bit of help from the zebras and a lot from the Patriots themselves. New England did a helluva job this year, all things considered. You don’t lose two first-tier coordinators and suffer the injury problems they did and still click on as though nothing happened.

Last night my wife, an absolutely pathological fan of musicals (she’s as discriminating about musicals as I am about pizza), was watching Bye Bye Birdie (1963). I accidentally watched a few minutes before realizing that WWE Friday Night Smackdown was on and, as fortune would have it, we own two TVs. One brief observation: damn, America used to be white.

A friend passed along this interesting list of US statistics for the year 1905. You can find the list reproduced in several places around the Web, and I have no idea about the original source. For that matter, I can’t swear that any of it is even accurate, although most of it seems about right. Anyway, the point was to

I’ll make you a deal. I’ll admit that I’m in mid-life and that I’m having a crisis if you’ll buy me one of these: That horsepower number has to be a typo, right? [THX: mojocity.]

I get the sense from some that tie clips are considered out o’ style, sorta like Tom Selleck mustaches. I very rarely wear a clip, but I do wear a pin. But here’s the thing. I just about have to wear a pin because I’m 6’2″ and these days ties are being sized for dwarves. At my height, the back/narrow