Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe

One of the things I love to do is look at the search terms people use to get to this site. It helps to explain why certain posts get a lot of hits, but it’s also an interesting sketch of the collective Internet psyche. My two posts on hair are consistently themost popular on [...]

Why Young Muslim Men are Angry

A couple of weekends ago I was watching CNN’s new show called CNN: Special Investigations Unit. It seems like any other special report they do, but somehow it’s different and special now. Good thing they chose my girl Christiane Amanpour to do the first one, cuz otherwise I wouldn’t have even bothered. [...]

Teh Awesome

That link to the Hair Petting Game is making the rounds of the blogs as people collectively go “WTF!!  Why isn’t someone smacking them?”  The fun thing for me is that there have been at least three discussions where someone brings up the fact that people associate this insane behavior with white women, another person [...]

Erase Racism

The 8th Erase Racism Carnival is up.  Go read!

Monday Debate : Affirmative Action, Still Necessary or Outdated?

Voters in Michigan passed an anti-Affirmative Action law (Proposal 2) last November. According to the bill’s proponents, the purpose was to “prohibit the state from granting preferential treatment based on skin color or gender.” The language that voters saw in the ballot box:
The proposed constitutional amendment would: Ban public institutions from using affirmative [...]

The Words of Dr. King

My nod to MLK day. here are some words from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., both real and fictional. The first is what he really did say (well, write) from a jail in Birmingham over 40 years ago. The second bit on the bottom is what Aaron McGruder thinks Dr. King would say if [...]

What the hell happened to ABW?

Uh… life? Sickness, laziness, the holidays, travel, more sickness, more holidays, work, family, stuff.
I’m back. Sorry!
Also going to clean up the ocmments this week. Jesus, you leave for 4 months and it all falls apart.
What kicked me into posting again? This:
New Trend?: The Hair Petting Game
So what is the hair petting [...]