June 24, 2010
The Gulf oil spill has destroyed not only the fragile ecosystem off the coast of Louisiana, (even lives) but the way of life and increasingly, a culture, of people that have lived off the water for generations.
If it were in your backyard, what would you do?
Aside from the Cajuns, black people, descendants of the ...
June 16, 2010
The Obama administration has finally gotten tough with BP, getting the company to fork over $20 billion to pay for victims of the oil spill.
The government still has to define language that would define what “victim” is, because, well, it’s complicated.
I mean, if you enjoy going to the beach to watch bikini-clad women or sun-chiseled ...
March 30, 2010
Do know what it means to mix New Orleans … with Chicago’s flair and style? That’s essentially what former White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers — who should be gone by Wednesday, the end (Ides) of March, was when she was tapped to run events at the president’s Washington residence.
Desiree Rogers had the sensitivities that ...
February 4, 2010
Let’s be honest: When you first first heard about Barack Obama, you had no idea the substance of the man. You didn’t know he had come out of Harvard or Harlem. You didn’t know if he was a lawyer or a layman. You didn’t know that his wife was a professional executive in Chicago, rather ...
January 20, 2010
Poll numbers schmoll numbers: Barack may be falling harder than a rock, but people think the world of Michelle, according to a new poll in the L.A. Times. That means former First Ladies Hillary Clinton and Barbara Bush evidently didn’t have that twinkle in the eye that ‘Chelle has displayed.
Sure, there has been hate, but ...
December 29, 2009
Tiger Woods. Steve McNair. Eliot Spitzer. Mark Sanford. The list goes on for the drunk-on-fame-and-power men who have cheated on their spouses affair raises the issue of marital infidelity again.
Although it seems Tiger was a straight dog, Sanford’s is a bit more complicated.
Sanford didn’t just have an affair he lingered with the other woman, ...