Newt Gingrich Wants To Be Your Man While Your Romney Gently Weeps

Mitt Romney just can't catch a break! Just when The Cain Train finally derailed and crashed under the duress of lady scandals and abject stupidity, it was Newt Gingrich who got the poll bump. Going into the January caucuses, Newt is in the lead. Politico is reporting that Romney is looking to "reboot" himself, as if he's the Spider-Man film franchise or something. Maybe he could re-cast his campaign by keeping the name, but having actor Ryan Gosling run in his place?

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Blacker Than Black Or Just Another Case of American Anti-Intellectualism

In a recent post for The Root, Thomas Chatterton Williams, wrote about how he saw black American culture being dominated by stereotypes. The crux of this was expressed in the following graph, "We have been, for a while now, caught up in a vexed zeitgeist in which, for African Americans, racial integrity overwhelmingly equates to embracing the narrow values of the black street culture of the past three decades: hip-hop culture. Or, to put it another way, to be black in a 'real' way nowadays is to more closely resemble Jay-Z or Carmelo Anthony than James Baldwin or Thurgood Marshall."

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Pundits Are Not Rap Stars: Rush Limbaugh Tries (And Miserably Fails) At Defending Himself From Jay-Z Diss Track

Seriously. It was like bringing a wooden spoon to a nuclear war.

Jay-Z and Drake have recently put out a little ditty called "Off That" because we all know that Jay-Z is never retiring. In the song he proclaims the many things that we are now "off," including sagging jeans and large chains and making it rain and many other things I've chronicled in my "Limits of Blackness" series where I'm all "WTF, my people. I love you, but I can't go there with you." I'm all for it. Reminds me (content-wise) of Lupe's "Dumb It Down," another favorite track of mine. But the song also disses conservative yak-meister Rush Limbaugh and FOX News talking head/host Bill O'Reilly. You know? Just because.

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