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CHINA’S POSSIBLE FUTURE – A HANDFUL OF HORNY YOUNG MEN AND A LOT OF BITTER SENIOR CITIZENS READY TO ADOPT SOMEONE…ANYONE…

As you are already aware, China put the brakes on its explosive population growth through the implementation of its one-child-per-family policy. China’s policy looks like a success from a short-term numbers perspective, but Nich… Continue

Added by Kambui on December 24, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

R. KELLY'S STORY TO BE TOLD IN A BOOK

I was reminded of this R. Kelly interview on BET when I read the Black Snob’s recent post about Kelly’s memoir being published in 2011:

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Added by Kambui on December 23, 2009 at 5:30pm — 3 Comments

MORE RECESSION MEMORIES - RATS AND CHIN-UPS

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Added by Kambui on December 22, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

YOUR FOOD CAN’T GET MORE LOCAL THAN THIS

Are you in the mood for honey made in Brownsville, Brooklyn? How about some 36th Street and 2nd Avenue Manhattan honey? Isn’t that where you catch the Midtown Tunnel? Wait…how about smacking your lips on some honey harvested from that alleged toxic waste… Continue

Added by Kambui on December 22, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

OPEN UP THOSE RECORDS SO WE CAN THROW SOMEBODY IN JAIL ALREADY!

Here is a trio I would not want to piss off: Eliot Spitzer, Frank Partnoy and William Black. The three of them are veterans in the financial regulation space. They can smell white-collar baddies like Blade can sniff out a bloodsucker who just changed his drawers. Besides… Continue

Added by Kambui on December 21, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

BARACK OBAMA – PRESIDENT FOR BLACK PEOPLE, WHITE FOLKS AND KNEE-GROWS TOO

I’m beginning to hear the same question spoken more frequently in private conversations, blogs and newspapers: “Should President Obama give more help to the African-American population during this recession?" Check out President Obama’s response in an… Continue

Added by Kambui on December 20, 2009 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

BUBBLE, SCHMUBBLE...

If I correctly interpreted Joshuah Bearman’s entertaining story in today’s New York Times of the "… Continue

Added by Kambui on December 20, 2009 at 11:35am — No Comments

AN ALBUM (OR TWO) IN MY HEAD THIS WEEK 0022

BILL DIXON & ARCHIE SHEPP – PEACE [1962]… Continue

Added by Kambui on December 19, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

BEYOND A COLLEGE BUBBLE, WHAT ELSE IS WRONG?

Dr. Rodney Coates made the following online observation regarding my recent post about the emerging college bubble: … Continue

Added by Kambui on December 18, 2009 at 9:40pm — No Comments

PUBLISH YOUR CREDIT CARD PURCHASES ON THE WEB! NOW!

Introducing...Blippy! The service that lets you publish your detailed credit card purchases online for your friends and the world to see. Bl… Continue

Added by Kambui on December 18, 2009 at 4:00am — 2 Comments

NO WONDER APPLE COMPUTERS ARE MADE IN CHINA! I THINK...

Based on this Gizmodo post, I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple’s managers shove laxatives down the throats of its employees just so… Continue

Added by Kambui on December 17, 2009 at 5:24pm — No Comments

DIRECTOR RIDLEY SCOTT - BIG SPENDER

Film Director Ridley Scott has respectable skills, but he makes me laugh. Scott is one of two or three directors I know of where if you gave him USD 1,000,000,000,000.00 to make a film, he might say, "Is that a down-payment?" You can drive Scott to the nearest insane asylum by telling him he has to make a movie for less than USD 30,000.00.00 Does "more money" mean "more creative"? Of course I don’t think so, but it’s still an interesting questi… Continue

Added by Kambui on December 17, 2009 at 4:37pm — 2 Comments

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE MILKY WAY LIKE THIS?

The picture above is beyond humbling. You can go to… Continue

Added by Kambui on December 17, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

CAN A “COLLEGE BUBBLE” HAPPEN?

We had an oil bubble burst in the mid-80’s, a technology bubble explosion in 2000 and a real estate bubble that lost air in 2007. Is a "College Crash" a possibility? Goodness... I’ll admit that predicting the real estate bubble was much easier than seeing the possibility of a college bubble bursting. Recent trends concerning the cost of a college education make me wonder about the possibility of a bubble. Let’s start with a quick recap of how… Continue

Added by Kambui on December 17, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

EIGHT QUESTIONS THAT MAKE SENSE

I pulled the questions directly from today's blog post by Seth Godin. With the exception of one of them, The questions seem to make sense for everyone who holds out the palm of their hand after they perform a service or creates something in exchange for payment: … Continue

Added by Kambui on December 15, 2009 at 6:35pm — No Comments

TONY BLAIR: NO WMDS? SHEEE, I’D STILL BUM RUSH IRAQ

I meant to comment about Tony Blair earlier, but decided not to state the obvious. Then changed my mind again… The opening sentence of the Gua… Continue

Added by Kambui on December 15, 2009 at 4:00am — No Comments

TAIBBI HITS OBAMA – HARD

I recently read Matt Taibbi’s Rolling Stone article “Obama’s Big Sellout.” It’s a scorcher, folks. Taibbi explains ho… Continue

Added by Kambui on December 14, 2009 at 8:11pm — No Comments

WILL MAJOR RECORD LABELS GO OUT OF BUSINESS?

I was reading this Techdirt post about the decline of the major record labels. The post discusses how the major labels neglected the cultu… Continue

Added by Kambui on December 14, 2009 at 3:00am — No Comments

SUNDAY BRUNCH PLAYLIST VOL. 40

I mentioned earlier that a second Shirley Horn song made its way to one of my Sunday Brunch volumes. Well, here she is… I also included another single from multi-instrumentalist Nino Moschella’s latest album that is unlike anything else he did on that release... I’m trying to… Continue

Added by Kambui on December 13, 2009 at 9:34pm — No Comments