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January 8, 2010
Mario Batali Delves Into his Genetics on PBS
On February 10th, Mario Batali will appear on Faces of America, the PBS series on the complex genealogy and genetics of prominent Americans, hosted by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Yes, he of the beer summit.) In the preview, we learn that Batali had a French great grandfather named LaFra ... More >>
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August 21, 2009
Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared
Museum of Natural History. Twitpic by ashelamb. The week was hot as hell -- which, a quick scan of our stories reveals, is an apt comparison. In a tribute to democracy, people with guns started following around President Obama. Busybodies were all over Michelle Obama's butt. Old peo ... More >>
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July 31, 2009
Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared
Twitpic by iamawizard. The week started with an underwear run and went downhill from there. President Obama's Supreme Court pick, Sonia Sotomayor, rocked the Judiciary Committee. He felt so good about that he released unexpected stimulus money for New York cops, and announced Medal of ... More >>
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July 30, 2009
Obama Drinks Bud; Astoria Noisiest Hood in Queens
Obama decided to deal with the Henry Louis Gates situation by inviting the Harvard professor and Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley over to the White House for a beer. The president said he would have a Budweiser, while Crowley prefers Blue Moon, and Gates drinks Red Stripe or Becks. [Slate] ... More >>
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July 29, 2009
Obama Will Drink Piss Beer at Gates-Crowley Summit
It appears President Obama has avoided controversy by allowing his guests at the Henry Louis Gates-Sergeant James Crowley summit to have whatever beer they want -- Gates is said to like Red Stripe, Crowley Blue Moon -- while Obama, mindful of America's preference for the mediocre, will drink ... More >>
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July 28, 2009
Stringer Aide Out After Facebook Posts Denouncing Gates, Supporting Racial Profiling
It's getting to the point where if you tell people the truth about the black crime menace, you lose your right to a government job. Here's the latest outrage from the sensitivity police: An aide to Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer has resigned after it was revealed that she made com ... More >>
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July 28, 2009
The 9 Beers Obama Should NOT Serve at the Gates-Sgt. Crowley Meeting
Certainly, the headline of the day is ABC News' "What Beer Will Obama Choose for White House Meeting?" This refers to the beer the President is scheduled to have with Professor Henry Louis Gates and the man who arrested him, Sergeant James Crowley of the Cambridge PD. Scott Mayerowitz' articl ... More >>
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July 28, 2009
This Week in the Voice
School's Out! But the Voice Educational Supplement is in session. When cops made a bogus bust on 32 teens from Bushwick Community High, the kids kept their cool -- and won their case against the NYPD. Why? Because they'd been trained how to respond to police overreach and entrapment by their ... More >>
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July 27, 2009
Rightbloggers Will Tell You Who The Real Racists Are in the Henry Louis Gates Case
One of the great themes of the current conservative movement is Liberal Fascism -- the idea, promoted by Jonah Goldberg's book of that name, that liberals are the true heirs of Hitler and Mussolini, and that they effect fascist outrages in the present day via their "speech police," "thought poli ... More >>
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July 27, 2009
Who Do You Side With In The Henry Gates Incident?
Last week, the country was aboil with racial angst because scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. had been arrested for disorderly conduct by Sgt. James Crowley, responding to a call. President Obama ended up trying to soothe the situation by saying that while the copper may have overreacted (Gates ... More >>
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July 24, 2009
Obama Takes "PO$H" Vacation in Taxachusetts While the People Suffer
"Despite growing unemployment numbers across the U.S.," the Post breathlessly announces, "the first family is planning to spend their summer vacation on a lavish East Coast getaway that could cost taxpayers up to $50,000 a week." And since the Obama's will be spending one week there, that co ... More >>
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July 24, 2009
Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared
Twitpic by tedsink. Last weekend's Siren Festival left many of us groggy, and a good thing too, as the week that followed was best seen in soft focus. President Obama and Henry Louis Gates were the comedy team of the week. Mayor Bloomberg, angry about the way mayoral school control ... More >>
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July 24, 2009
Obama "Calibrates" Gates Cop Comments, Is Spared Arrest
President Obama said he wished he could "have calibrated those words differently" when he said the arresting officer in the Henry Louis Gates case acted "stupidly." He now says the cop and Gates probably both overreacted and were "two good people in a circumstance that neither of them were abl ... More >>
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July 23, 2009
Harry Reid Delays Health Care Till After Vacation, Leaving Henry Louis Gates to Heal Our Wounds
President Obama went to a lot of trouble last night to explain the concept behind his health care plan -- "So taxpayers are already putting this money into the kitty. The problem is they're not getting a good deal for the money they're spending," etc. -- and now Harry Reid says, whatever dude ... More >>
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April 21, 2009
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