"Reverse Oreo?"

Regular Snob reader The Blue alerted me of some "reverse oreo" chatter involving Ed Bradley Award for Journalistic Hotness winne...

My mother, the Clinton apologist

Hello, I'm the Black Snob and my mother is a Clinton apologist. The Clintons with all their good points and flaws are in a battle royal ...

When Ego Attacks: Wesley Snipes Edition

Actor Wesley Snipes talks to the media as he walks into the Golden-Collum Memorial Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Ocala, Fla. on Tu...

Funny thing I found while trolling Defamer

This has nothing to do with the politics of blackness , but as a reformed My Little Pony collector, I busted a gut.

Dude claims he can go toe-to-toe in the Tiger Woods Era leading to laughter and him going "Really. I'm serious!"

British Golfer/Trainwreck Fashonista Ian Poulter (seen here in some ugly-ass pants) is putting the threatdown on Tiger Woods. Good luck, bu...

The Lastest Election Night Casualties

Edwards is dropping out . Yeah, yeah ... but will that help or hurt Obama? Who are those 15 percent Edwards folks going to break for and wa...

The Limits of Blackness

Once upon a time in 1999, I was to wed a fellow, let's call him, Grady McShady . I was in the midst of planning a wedding that McShady k...

Shenanigans a-foot, yet again!

Hillary Clinton handsomely won the Geritol State's Democratic popularity contest . Proving that while some would shrug and move on, Hill...

Further evidence of the ignorance

Black celebrity gossip site Bossip regularly irritates me with their use of misogynist terms to denigrate black women. One of the regular f...

Young vs. Old: The Great Barack Obama Debate

Jena 6 protesters in Washington, D.C. in 2007 and Civil Rights protesters in 1960s Seattle, Wash. I found this comment lurking in the latest...

Snore!

Did anyone else watch our beleaguered Leader of the Free World sleepwalk his way through (thank Jesus) his last State of the Union address ...

Word of the Day

No matter how many times I see this word in print I can never remember the definition. quixotic: adj. 1. Caught up in the romance of noble...

Finally, someone sets the record straight on the "First Black President" garbage

Read a great article on Salon.com laying out how people have twisted the meaning of Toni Morrison's words when she called Bill Clinton...

Weird thing I found on Gawker

It's a story about racists who've finally got the point that it's unsavory to refer to blacks as "niggers" and have a...

Vick's dogs hanging up their illict past, going straight

In Georgia and California they're looking for a few good homes for the victims of Michael Vick's criminal dog fighting empire . I...

Tiger Woods ties with Arnold Palmer for fourth on the all-time wins list

Not-black-black person Tiger Woods administered his 62nd career beat down . No golfers were harmed in the act, but there was the usual mix ...

How do you kill a dream?

My hometown paper The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (why won't they give me a job) endorsed Barack Obama (and John McCain ) in the Sunday ed...

It was a beat down!

Barack Obama won South Carolina by a ridiculous margin . Oddly enough, after that win Bill Clinton was on my TV in my home state of Missou...

SC Primary: Black vote good? Black vote bad?

I, for some strange reason, have been watching a lot of the pundits on CNN , CBS and MSNBC try to grapple with that thing called race in t...

It's gotta be ... the shoes?

You know , I respect Michael Jordan's skills as a baller. I respect his role as a sports icon, trend-setter, underwear pitchman, all-ar...

Gah. I just can't take it anymore.

Off of AP/Yahoo : " Clinton seeks to smooth relations with Obama " How many times are we going to do this dance? The Clintons'...

Political News

The South Carolina Showdown: The Democratic primary in SC is tomorrow, and Obama's busy doing the racial two-step while trying to keep...

"NILF"

For anyone who was curious about where my inspiration for the Ed Bradley Award for Journalistic Hotness came from, here is one of the funni...

Reason #1178 Why I don't subscribe to Ebony Magazine

I saw this cover when I was in Target this morning. It's their annual 10 hottest couples issue and who's front and center? Donkey a...

Salon's Joan Walsh on the Democratic campaign

I love Joan Walsh , a writer for Salon.com . She regularly writes about politics and is following the Democratic race. She recently penned t...

Frenchie in the final

Who's going to the Australian Open final? This guy . I promise I'll write something serious soon, but man, he was so excellent on th...

They Give Good News

Some people fawn over actors. Others athletes. I, rather, drool over a man who can get me some news . God, I love a fellow in a suit and tie...