Oh how America loves a great fall. I’ve held back on the recent Tiger Woods watch, not because there was nothing to talk about but more so there was so much to talk about and astoundingly not about Woods himself.
What was there to talk about? How about, booty calls, ambien, the institution of marriage, how women feel about infidelity versus how men feel about it. There’s the difference between getting a little something something on the side when you’re rich vs. when you’re poor and have to pick your date up in a Ford Focus instead of a yacht called ‘Privacy’. Be honest, if Tiger’s name was Lamont, drove a Corolla and was the manager at Jack In The Box, there would be no scandal. There’s the guys who say how stupid Tiger was that with all that money he should have never gotten caught and women say how Elin should get half of that money after only five years of marriage.
There’s the tabloid, and digital media like US and OK and People Magazine (Yeah, I said their names and People Magazine, yes you are a tabloid.) whom have clearly taken sides with their female base. Online publications one would think would be above the fray like the Huffington Post, CNN, and others, eventually strayed from reporting and gave in to the sensationalism of it all and started their own girlfriend count and embraced anything that TMZ had to say, confirmed or not. Read more...(1048 words, 1 image, estimated 4:12 mins reading time)
I’ll make this short. The United States is in a steep recession. One of the hardest hit American cities of this financial downturn is Chicago, Illinois. Yet, the GOP and Conservatives are gloating because President Obama’s trip to Copenhagen, in an attempt to bring the Olympic Games to this city, failed. Essentially, they are applauding the loss of billions of dollars in revenue to that city, state and the federal government because they’d rather see the President fail more than they would like to see an American city succeed. And this is the party that wants to retake the Senate, House and eventually the White House. Unbelievable if it didn’t actually happen. Saturday Night Live can’t even spoof this. They would be accused of committing a comedy no no of illustrating a joke. Unfortunately, the GOP is merely illustrating who they are and the joke is on America.
by Walter Allen Bennett, Jr. on September 18, 2009
Let’s face it, for a United States Senator to yell out ‘you lie!’ during a speech to a joint session of Congress by the President of the United States, there just had to be more to it than it was merely blurted out. Finally, I think we see what actually happened and quite frankly, it’s happened to me… not during a joint session of congress though. It was more like at the morning school bus stop when I was in fourth grade. We were all going to stick up against the bully but when the moment came I was the only one who didn’t get the memo. I still have the scares, I still… Okay, I’ll save that for a different kind of session… I feeeeel you Joe!
There is or has been a budding music star in all of us at one time or the other. From a garage band hoping to become the next Jonas Brothers or Jackson Five to a church choir envisioning themselves as the next Kirk Franklin or Amy Grant and Crystal Lewis. Or it could have began as innocently as singing in the shower and doo-whopping anywhere that has a good echo. The dream to sing stays alive and all along we continuously ask ourselves: What if? Could I have if I had stuck with it or not listened to… Was I really as good as I thought? Did my friends’ and family’s slight jabs at my talent foster an insecurity within that eventually saved me from massive embarrassment or did it in fact derail a career and dream that could have been? It can happen, not just for music, but to any dream. Or is it as simple as you felt that no matter how spectacular you thought you were, it boiled down to not having the connections. Not knowing the right people in the right places at the right time.
4Tru, is an all girl singing group that began the way most singing groups begin, a bunch of thirteen year old friends saying, “hey, let’s start a singing group”. It makes one chuckle and smile when those words are said out loud because they are always followed by the next infamous and adolescent phrase which goes like this: ”Yeah, I bet we could be the next [Fill In The Blank]” But it’s okay. That is what dreams are made of. And guess what? Sometimes they do become the next whomever. Read more...(601 words, 1 image, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)
I’ll make this short. The United States is in a steep recession. One of the hardest hit American cities of this financial downturn is Chicago, Illinois. Yet, the GOP and Conservatives are gloating because President Obama’s trip to Copenhagen, in an attempt to bring the Olympic Games to this city, failed. Essentially, they are applauding the loss of billions of dollars in revenue to that city, state and the federal government because they’d rather see the President fail more than they would like to see an American city succeed. And this is the party that wants to retake the Senate, House and eventually the White House. Unbelievable if it didn’t actually happen. Saturday Night Live can’t even spoof this. They would be accused of committing a comedy no no of illustrating a joke. Unfortunately, the GOP is merely illustrating who they are and the joke is on America.
