Actor O’shea Jackson, playing his father, Ice Cube, in the 2015 movie “Straight Outta Compton.”
Ice Cube, in 1989, was a black teenage rap star, sick of doing all of the work and getting none of the money.
2016: Ain’t gotta change a word. Continue reading
The federal government rejected Georgia’s attempt to drug test food stamps applicants. Governor Nathan Deal signed House Bill 772, with the intention it would go into effect July 1. The bill would have required state officials to test those applicants they had a “reasonable suspicion” of using illegal drugs. Continue reading
Do you ever get the feeling that your man would propose if only you could find a way to get pregnant? Well a new service has the answer for you, for $15 they will sell you a positive pregnancy test. Continue reading
This post is, as we had a couple of days ago, a place to have your say about this weekend’s events in Ukraine.
Here is a brief history of Crimea.
Crimea has been fought over since before it was Crimea. The ancient Greeks set up some colonies, but then came the Romans, then the Crimean Tatars (part of Genghis Khan’s Golden Horde), then Goths, Huns, Bulgars, Khazars, and then the Kievan Rus in the 10th and 11th centuries. Byzantine Empire, Mongols, then Venice, and then the Republic of Genoa. Continue reading
There should be holidays to recover from the holidays. Continue reading
As you have probably already heard Nelson Mandela has passed away at the age of 95. I am not going to try and give you a full biography of his amazing life and career, I will leave that to the proper biographers. Instead, I will just give you a few thoughts from a person who is an ordinary, sometimes activist who is blessed enough to be surrounded by good people who want to make the world a better place. Continue reading
News at 11! Ron Burgundy hosts an actual newscast in Bismarck, ND. Video after the jump. Continue reading
Cyanogen Inc., is a newly created company that has been producing the slowly adopted, but somewhat popular CyanogenMod custom Android ROM. They just released a new app called the CyanogenMod Installer which will unlock the user’s boot loader, root their device, and flash CyanogenMod to their phone with almost zero extra effort. The app is free over the Google Play store and after downloading their free desktop software you can have a very user friendly, highly customizable version of Android. Continue reading
President Obama has been such a monumental disaster that he’s already had like a thousand “Katrinas” during his presidency. It’s becoming hard to keep track of all the important ones.
Here is a quick reference list of all the major Katrinas that have occurred so far during Obama’s term. Continue reading
