I friended somebody the other day on the basic principle that you can't have too many friends. Since anybody's capacity is limited by Dunbar's Number, I don't mind adding a bunch, except perhaps over at Orkut which has the problem of a language and real distance barrier. I mean, if I can't sit down ...

It just so happened that I was bored and listening to an old audiobook podcast called 'The Last Lecture'. It was rather phenomenal when the author actually died of pancreatic cancer. I know I had listened to half of it before and never finished it for some odd reason. But in the first few minutes of...

I don't have much time. My week turned out to be the week from almost hell and I have a busy weekend. So while I have about 30 minutes of free time, let me spout off on things I wanted to say during the week. Tim Russert Tim Russert has died at the age of 58 of an apparent heart attack. I agree ...

Two years ago, The Washington Post did a series of articles on Black Men. I referred to it as the Black Men series and I wrote about it here. The first article covered the results of a poll that was......

I've wanted eBooks for a long time. Amazon has been hyping the Kindle for a while. I don't think it's going to fly. There are three very good reasons. It's ugly as hell. It looks like a plastic adirondack chair......

One category that's bound to get more attention under my new curiosity is 'Brain Spew'. And under that category will probably come my musings about other nations, other countries. If I could unblackify my diary, the travels might go there. But from the perspective of just thinking about places, Brai...

Passing comments on news and opinion pieces of the past few days. Huckabee on Wright I've received a few emails about this, and I've seen this a few places on the web. Mike Huckabee goes out on a limb: And one other thing I think we've gotta remember. As easy as it is for those of us who are white, ...

You know I had to do it. #1. Black PeopleBlack people like black people. Mostly because we actually do, other times because we have to. Most of the time it's because we want to like black people, and since black people want to like black people, we generally meet black people who want to like us. Th...

I was talking with my daughter yesterday, and she mentioned someone who had no sense of humor. She then said "even I" have a sense of humor, it's just hard to categorize. She said it's "different" and then she said it's "dry." When I told Mrs. D.S., she laughed and said...

This is about people who have done some horrible things to kids. All of this is behind the fold because I find it depressing. All I will say right now is, although I am against the death penalty, all of the people who did this should be immediately removed from the gene pool. Remove this "mothe...