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If you ever ques­tioned whether the folks at Google have a sense of humor, check this out. Click here to read the dri­ving direc­tions from Tokyo to San Fran­cisco. Pay par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to steps 24 and 36.

Appar­ently I have been under a rock in the last week, because I com­pletely missed that Michael Steele uttered the words “hon­est injun.” What the…?? How long before the Repub­li­cans get rid of that Negro? Anyway, I was going to write a blog piece about the word Negro, but a piece on my friend’s site BlackGirlGrown […]

This won­der­ful cell phone ankle hol­ster can be yours for the low, low price of $26. Wow.  Inter­est­ingly enough, this prod­uct is pri­mar­ily fea­tured on sites hawk­ing sup­plies for police and emer­gency per­son­nel.  I guess you can now live out that SWAT fantasy.

One of the great things about Face­book and Twit­ter is that I’ve been able to meet a lot of inter­est­ing peo­ple. Fur­ther, it’s been incred­i­ble to get back in touch with peo­ple I haven’t seen or talked to in ages. One inter­est­ing aspect of the recon­nec­tion, though, is that it reveals that many peo­ple are […]

Whether we acknowl­edge it or not, most peo­ple have a “phone voice” — par­tic­u­larly at work. But, as the hol­i­day approaches, and many peo­ple are headed home for the hol­i­days, I won­dered if peo­ple have a “home voice.”  I became aware that when I visit my par­ents, my speech tends to tighten up. I speak more […]