From the Kansas City Star’s Jason Whitlock, “Imus isn’t the real bad guy”: Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem. You’ve given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality. You’ve given Vivian

From Bloomberg News: Russian police arrested opposition leader and former world chess champion Gary Kasparov today along with more than 100 supporters and several journalists at an unsanctioned protest against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Thousands of riot police swarmed streets around central Moscow’s Pushkin Square, the historical focus of democracy protests, after the city’s authorities pledged the same display of police force that greeted the last protest in the

From Jemele Hill, ESPN’s Page 2: I never wrote it, but I felt it—which is just as bad. I said it in private discussions with friends, some of whom tried to get me to see the whole picture, not just the picture I wanted to see. My being a black woman, my knowing too many athletes who treat women like items to be purchased in a vending machine, and my

”…but you can never take…OUR MUSICAL TRANNIES!” Somewhere over the Percocet rainbow, the ghost of Judy Garland is smiling and having herself a nice double martini. (h/t Tom Pechinski)

HERE LIES THE WEST: WELL, IF NOTHING ELSE, IT SURE DID SOME GREAT SHIT WITH KETCHUP, DIDN’T IT?*

Which, isn’t that, you know, racist…? (h/t Dan Collins)

A:  When it’s taking a courageous stand on behalf of sinister conspiracies and the greater truthiness.  From feministing, “You will not shame me”: I have gotten email upon threatening email to rescind what I said last year about the Duke Women’s Lacrosse Team and their uninformed support for the accused rapists in the Duke rape case. The case that was mishandled, manipulated and finally dropped on Wednesday. I usually ignore

A:  When a “New Black Panther” calls a conservative woman of Filipino descent a “political prostitute”. Then, it’s just speaking Truth to Power. MAGALAGAPINGPONG! Watch the entire video, if you have the time.  I would add some pithy commentary on the argument made by Mr Shabazz—strikingly similar to the strained argument made by Oliver Willis the other day, incidentally—that record sales, particularly sales to suburban whites, is what necessitates and

Nifong: “You know who you’d never see snacking on piles of shit?  Rich, white lacrosse players, that’s who.  And I intend to change that, my poor, brown Scarabaeinae brothers!  “Now.  WHO’S WITH MIKE?”

From Newsmax: This week, the U.N. Disarmament Commission re-elected Iran as its vice-chair, reports the U.S. Senate’s Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security on its official web site. A majority of U.N. member states decided to allow Iran to remain in this position despite the fact the U.N. Security Council declared Iran has violated the non-proliferation resolutions the Commission is charged to promote, laments the subcommittee.