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Should we repeat the craziness of "Deceiver Madness" this year?
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It won’t make me popular around here, but I admit that I sometimes listen to NPR. Nerdy-cute guys like Ira Glass are kind of my thing.
So I was intrigued by NPR producer and blogger Teshima Walker’s criticism of black recording artists like Beyoncé, Rihanna, Mary J. Blige, and Roberta Flack for showing up to the Grammys with blonde, straightened, white-girl hair:
I know that blond hair is associated with white women and beauty. I saw how men respond to girls and women with golden hair. Men (black, white, Asian, Latino and Native American) can’t get enough of Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, Pink and now this Lady Gaga chick. Trust me – all women want to feel desirous and beautiful. We all want some of that. And some of us dye our hair blond to get the job interview, get a second look and get the man or woman (don’t you?).
But now I think maybe Black stars should help African-American women release the hold that blond hair has had on us. It’s not a natural hair color. It’s not really a good look if you’re over 30. It’s not particularly healthy for your hair. We don’t need the woes that blond hair brings. Black women, let’s do something different.
I quibble with the notion that men are drooling over Madonna or Lady Gaga — I think more men are terrified of them. But I digress. I was curious what Teshima herself looked like. And guess what?
Continue reading ‘NPR Blogger Blasts Beyoncé, Rihanna for Going Blonde’
Commentary might seem overwrought in this case. The facts speak for themselves.
From President Obama’s State of the Union Address last week (clearing throat):
That’s what I came to Washington to do. That’s why -– for the first time in history –- my administration posts on our White House visitors online. That’s why we’ve excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs, or seats on federal boards and commissions.
But we can’t stop there. It’s time to require lobbyists to disclose each contact they make on behalf of a client with my administration or with Congress. It’s time to put strict limits on the contributions that lobbyists give to candidates for federal office.
I am “borrowing” from multiple sources when I lay out the follow list of individuals with lobbying ties, lobbying habits, lobbying paychecks, etc. — all welcomed with open arms into lobbyist-free zone that is the White House. Perhaps when lobbyists walk through the pearly gates at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, they are absolved of their past sins.
From The New York Times on the day after the Presidential inauguration:
Mr. Obama’s nominee for deputy secretary of defense, William Lynn, has been a lobbyist for the defense contractor Raytheon, and his nominee for deputy secretary of health and human services, William V. Corr, lobbied for stricter tobacco regulations as an official with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Continue reading ‘Obama to lobbyists: Come, and sin no more’
Okay, this is a long, painful video. Please don’t subject yourself to watching it more than once. (Unless you fancy catching Captain Peace Prize telling a couple of whoppers about “ending the outsized influence of lobbyists.” But more on that later.)
Go ahead and skim it through. Pay special attention to Nancy Pelosi there behind the Prez. Clapping wildly, standing, waving her hands in the air like she just don’t care every time Obama says how he’s gonna whittle away at that government spending.
But, oh, she does care. In so many ways.
Continue reading ‘Buyin’, Flyin’ and Lyin’: A Pelosi Triple Play’
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