From the Boston Phoenix, by way of the Huffington Post, I came across these soundbites extracted from the audio version of Barack Obama’s book Dreams of My Father. In the book, President Obama uses all sorts of street slang in his imitations of his friend Ray, who sounds like the type of guy who dropped […]

Who knew about the fishing village called Obama about five hours west of Tokyo? Not only does this place share its name with the guy who will probably be the next U.S. president, but according to these weird celebrations going on there for Obama (the guy, not the city), it seems as though Obama (the […]

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The new Chris Rock special “Kill the Messenger” premiered this weekend, and the timing couldn’t be better. While it was somewhat weird for me that producers spliced clips together from three different shows — New York, London and Johannesburg — and the transitions were far from seamless, this special was vintage Chris Rock. […]

In an appearance Saturday night in Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room, Charles Barkley reminded me why I love him so much. Never reluctant to speak his mind and never afraid to spark controversy, Charles seems, like most of us, utterly fed up with the Bush administration. He says the word “conservative” makes him sick […]

The second and hopefully last beauty pageant-related story of the week deals with 22-year-old Tsering Chungtak, Miss Tibet in the 2007 International Miss Tourism pageant in Malaysia. After participating in the preliminary events this week, Chungtak was forced to drop out of the competition Wednesday for refusing to add “China” to her title of […]

A mentally-ill New Hampshire man walked into Hillary Clinton’s Rochester, New Hampshire headquarters Friday claiming to have explosives strapped to his chest and demanded to speak to Senator Clinton. However, Clinton was in Washington and the “explosives” turned out to be highway flares. But that didn’t stop 47-year-old Leeland Eisenberg from orchestrating a […]