A thoughtful reader sent me an email wondering if I have an opinion on interracial marriage. I only have an excuse, which is that any marriage is better than no marriage. But check out the link. I didn't know about...

What would you do if I walked out on you Cause the song that you sing cost too much? You would be blue 'cause then you couldn't do All that socialist sharing and such.But you're gonna try with a little...

This is so irresistibly cute, and OBVIOUS.

Mother is not my mother. She is the mother of my best friend in high school, and she became one of the highest ranking women in her church. Not just in California, but nationwide. So I had a long talk...

What nobody knows for sure is the question of when. Why is what I see now. What I'm talking about is the default of Greece and the upcoming ripples. Now the first thing I'm thinking to counter the notion that...

I've learned, from ZeroHedge, the name of a possible hero in all of this financial mess. His name is Borofsky and he's the head of SIGTARP, the Special Inspector General for TARP. Here's what his office submitted to Congress on...

The Intellectual Sandbox from Michael David Cobb Bowen on Vimeo. It's not just intellect, it's politics, religion, everything.

I'm shocked. This evening, I happened to be in an emergency room attending a friend. It was in a suburb of Washington DC. It was 6:30 pm. It was empty, it had free wifi. The wifi was faster than this...

I have been listening to Blankfein's testimony for the past 90 minutes or so. I don't know if anybody is liveblogging it, but it's fairly interesting stuff. I have a fairly decent understanding, I think, of what's going on. How...

The Book Fair at UCLA was sponsored by the LATimes, an organization from which I feel I learn nothing. And on my way back home I overheard a kind of recital of facts that could only come from an older...

I came across that figure. The headline read that now that Android had 50K+ apps, they could be a serious challenge for the iPhone. It is impossible for a telephone to be that useful. There are exactly 13 applications that...

Last week, I received one of those life-affirming compliments. Its impact on me is going to determine a lot. It was delivered by one of the Laughing Happy Fishheads, my new moniker for a superb cadre of guys with whom...

Today is one of those days. At the end of one of those weeks. You know. When you ask yourself why oh why did I take the red pill. I thought about Evie today. I used to hang out with...

Bobby McFerrin has done something that impresses me as both majestic and simple which is that he has begun to be iconographic. I'm likening his musical genius now to that of Thelonius Monk in that there are a few signature...

They say that if you can't say anything good about somebody, you shouldn't say anything at all. This may be a short entry. Yet I don't have any words to malign Daryl Gates. He stood in opposition to a lot...

Shay Riley of the Conservative Brotherhood attends a Tea Party Rally in Chicago: One of the rally speakers, John Arrington (who asked me earlier if I could sign his ballot petition, but I don’t live in suburban Cook County), is...

There is a difference between the aims and gains of the Civil Rights Movement and the problems that black Americans have with family. Black Conservatives recognize, as do most Black Nationalists, that the white liberals who supported the CRM were...

Borrowing from my favorite editor, I celebrate my favorite living musical artist's new album. His work is always something wonderful. I picked up his latest work, VOCAbuLarieS, from Amazon today. I'll write a review after I let it bake in...

It's coming. I'm just not sure if it's a good thing or not.