The Laws

Maybe I am behind the times or a visionary, but if my web developing skills were of a level where I could design a search engine,  I would.  I would a design a search engine specific to the laws of the land.  Then, individuals like you and I who are literate with access to the [...]

The United Nations Website

I’m not sure when or how recently the UN overhauled their website, but it looks fantastic.  Clearly, someone in the right place heard the complaints about their crotchety website and the confusion about the actual structure and organization of the massive organism itself.
Let me tell ya, I like progress.

I can actually find the UN Radio [...]

National Museum Day is September 26, 2009

View from inside the Brooklyn Museum amidst Rodin’s Burghers of Calais

The Smithsonian sponsored National Museum Day is tomorrow.  It is a nationwide celebration of museums, large and small!  There are over 800 institutions participating nationwide.  Once you download the admissions card (on the website) you and a guest have gained free admission to the participating museum [...]

CNN

I am not sure how I feel about CNN’s program, African American Firsts.
Embedded video from CNN Video
But, Shirley Franklin seems cool.

The Black List Project Continued. . .

For some reason, it always hits a nerve when a female coeval says she is not a feminist.
“Why do we need feminism?/Aren’t we all equal now?/I have never experienced sexism, what’s the big deal?/I don’t identify with those bra burning feminists!/It’s for white affluent women, it’s not for me/The girls I know who are feminists [...]

Women’s History Month

March is Women’s History Month.  While everyone except NASA (Yes, their YouTube channel has profiles of Black people this month?!), Jeopardy! and Attorney General Holder pretended Black History Month no longer exists because we elected our first African-American President, I will blog ad nauseum about Women’s History Month. So, to start this off with [...]

As predicted . . .

there was better analysis the following day regarding Obama’s address to Congress.  One of the better articles was from Politico.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19282.html
Even better there’s a poll on the front page of Politico’s website asking what readers thought of Jindal’s rebuttal last night.  As of  1:04 am EST. 67% of Politico readers who answered the poll (8878 votes) thought [...]

Gov. Jindal’s Speech Pattern

Did anyone think Jindal sounded particularly folksy tonight?  I know he can speak.  In fact, we all know he is smart, even if he is a bit crazy with the far right fundamentalist Christianity.  Well, actually, why don’t you decide?
His response to Obama’s Address:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29374285/
And second, Gov Jindal on Meet the Press:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29330668#29330668
Not that [...]

Inside the Meltdown

I just finished watching Frontline’s Inside the Meltdown on Thirteen (NYC’S PBS station).  A lot of this information was not new to me.  Like most of us during this time we perused the news, very methodically, every day for the slightest change in polls.  But, suddenly, every day seemed to bring earth-shattering, tectonic-shifting gloom and [...]

Stimulus Plan

I hear two conflicting views about public support for the stimulus plan.
The New Yorker says on their political scene audio article that support is waning.  Gallup says Obama is winning the fight about the stimulus plan: http://www.gallup.com/poll/114202/Obama-Upper-Hand-Stimulus-Fight.aspx
Granted, I am listening to TV on the Radio’s new album, Dear Science and didn’t want to switch that [...]