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Stephen A. Smith Is Being Unfairly Demonized

#166943585 / gettyimages.com Some topics can’t be discussed because emotions run too high. There are certain triggers that shut people’s faculties of reason down completely and doesn’t allow for further or clear listening. Even if you agree with their fundamental point, there is an absolute, all or nothing, position that gets clung to in those situations. Stephen A. Smith is learning that right now in the wake of his comments within a discussion about NFL player Ray Rice. This didn’t go over well. Many people immediately went into “he’s blaming the victim” mode and completely tuned out the real point...

#FCCNetNeutrality discussion with FCC Chief Information Officer 1

Corporate Assholery / Current Events / Government / Technology

#FCCNetNeutrality discussion with FCC Chief Information Officer

I posted the following tweets to Twitter conversation regarding the telcos wanting to prioritize access on the Internet and the FCC’s deliberation. I got a response from FCC Chief Information Officer David A. Bray. I thought the discourse made for an interesting read for those interested. Of course this isn’t an end all be all conversation on the issue and neither I nor David Bray have the power to decide. Ideally, together we all have that power by letting the FCC know what side of the issue we stand on. Senator Al Franken called this fight “the free-speech issue of...

Zimmerman vs DMX Cancelled – Sanity Prevails 1

Current Events / Entertainment

Zimmerman vs DMX Cancelled – Sanity Prevails

Well it seems good conscience and public outrage may have won out over Capitalism. The so-called “celebrity boxing” match between the killer from Florida and rapper DMX has been cancelled. Is this a precedent? I think this might be a precedent. Maybe, just maybe, if we try we could make this part of the culture. I’m a dreamer. Anyway, in these few and far between moments we should rejoice. The promoter Damon Feldman tweeted the news. Done with George Zimmerman if you had a major payday sitting in front of you , I know no one else would walk away...

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Commentary / Current Events / Entertainment

Get The Facts Straight Before Gwyneth Hate

Gwyneth Paltrow on WhoSay   So Twitter talk puts yet another celebrity in the hot seat for comments. This time around we’ve got actress Gwyneth Paltrow cooking from a tweet she made on June 1, 2012 that said “Ni**as in paris for real @mrteriusnash (the dream) tyty, beehigh”. She tweeted the above photo, along with that statement, showing her on stage in Paris while Jay-Z and Kanye West are performing their hit song entitled “Ni**as In Paris”. Now this isn’t another post to debate whether or not it was appropriate for her to make that tweet. That topic is being...

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Commentary / Current Events / Environment / Government / Politics

Obama Uses Humor To Make A Point on Fallon

I’m sure we’ve all seen it by now, President Obama on the Jimmy Fallon show backed up by The Roots band as they Slow Jam the news. It’s been hailed by supporters of Obama and panned by his critics. Personally, I thought it was funny, entertaining, and informative. Before sitting down for a more formal interview, President Obama shocked the audience after appearing from behind stage curtains, ready to “slow jam” with Jimmy Fallon and his band (Philadelphia’s hip hop sensation The Roots). Obama sang then talked the lead role, while Fallon and The Rootsoffered back up, on the tune...