Wow! Who then is a real singer these days? Dang! It won’t let me embed the video, but it’s worth watching. Nova Science Now: Auto-Tune Link to the Science Now website where they discuss more on Auto Tune technology.

I spent some time this morning reading some the comments on the Left side of tha’ ’sphere regarding President Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize. What I noticed was how folks are really trying to convince themselves that this is some consensus from the collective world body that Obama is truly “The Man”. Then why just [...]

In this episode of Blackinformant.com Podcast, I interview funnyman, actor, and now author David Alan Grier. You may know him from the 90’s show “In Living Color”, but he has done so much in his career. Now he his adding the title of “author” to his list of accomplishments. We spent time talking about his [...]

In this episode of Blackinformant.com Podcast, I interview funnyman, actor, and now author David Allen Grier. You may know him from the 90’s show “In Living Color”, but he has done so much in his career. Now he his adding the title of “author” to his list of accomplishments. We spent time talking about his [...]

Remember That Lil’ Car Experiment? You should. Your tax dollars paid for a good portion of it. During all the town hall debates, critics said that we should stop all the bickering and yelling and focus on the “real issues”. Is losing $5.4 billion dollars a “real issue”? Chrysler: Obama’s Automotive Guinea Pig 4/29/09 (Forbes.com) At a prime time news [...]

I took a recent interview from WRJ (who covered this story) and remixed it. No reason. I just wanted to add the music. This is how you buy votes. Residents Get Chance At Stimulus Money “DETROIT — Detroit’s homeless and low-income residents have another opportunity for a chance at millions of stimulus dollars. The money is available to help low-income [...]

Crooks who take advantage of desperate people and desperate people who do not take the time to read. (propublica.org) “Real estate professionals and mortgage brokers are the driving force behind the boom. Indeed, some of the same brokers who stoked the housing boom are now making their living off homeowners stuck in the sort of [...]

#Michael Steele was nothing more than a Black figurehead for the GOP (surprise, surprise) #The GOP, like Democrats take orders from corporate interests FIRST. Catering to the people who put them there in the first place only happens during an election cycle. GOP leaders to Michael Steele: Back off (Politico.com) GOP leaders, in a private meeting last [...]

Reminds me of another person in history. He, too was a complete stranger to many. Georgia bone marrow donor meets recipient in Illinois (ajc.com) It was an emotional moment when Illinois cancer survivor Rosalind Beard met the Georgia man who donated his bone marrow to help her fight Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Beard, a 37-year-old mother of four from Melrose [...]

Today’s word is: Gangsta Say it with me, “Gang-sta.” Zimbabwe’s Mugabe Has Built Secret Farming Empire (VOA News) Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has said his fast-track land reform program, launched in 2000, was to give Zimbabwean land back to landless blacks and that each individual should acquire and own only one farm. However VOA has discovered that he [...]

It didn’t take long for folks to formulate some comparison to Bush as several websites I visited over the weekend are comparing Obama’s push for the Olympics and Bush attending the Olympics. “Stretch” ain’t even the word. Let’s start with an article from The Politico back in May of this year. “The Obama White House is playing an [...]

I mean (sigh!), It’s like (sigh!), Awwwwww, whatever! From nydailynews.com~ Barbie from the block got mixed reviews Wednesday from city girls inspecting the newest spin on the old-school toy. “So In Style” dolls, a fresh take on the black Barbie, hit store shelves this week, featuring a group of plastic friends sporting shiny bling, big earrings and fancy [...]

Just as I thought it was a dumb idea to “bail out” American automakers who were doing a fine job destroying themselves, it is also a dumb idea to “bail out” newspapers who have been losing readership over the years. Black newspapers are no exception. Too bad NNPA (National Newspaper Publishers Association) Chairman Danny Bakewell still [...]

Stacking the court system From CQ Politics~ “Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy dropped a bill today that would create dozens of new appellate and district court judgeships. “After years of debate and federal courts struggling to adjudicate cases despite the overwhelming burden of heavy caseloads, the time to enact a comprehensive federal judgeship bill is long overdue,” [...]

To me, government fixing something is like the times I used to bang my old Black and White TV (Wow! Do they even make those anymore?) in a futile effort to get a decent signal. The only thing my banging did was to accelerate the death spiral of that poor television set. And get this, [...]

I’m having somewhat of a homecoming party here at Blackinformant.com. My podcast page (which was hosted with a different hosting company) has now come home (snif, snif). As part of the celebration, I gave the site a complete makeover and its unique url. podcast.blackinformant.com. The feed for the actual podcast is ~ http://podcast.blackinformant.com/?feed=podcast You can also access it just [...]

In my post “The Black Soldier Has Been Sheehan-ized”, I pointed out how all the talk over how Black soldiers were being forced to their deaths in the Middle east (thanks to Bush) has noticeably gone quiet. Now that Obama has become President, suddenly it’s not web chic anymore to show pictures of Black soldiers [...]

Found this article floating around today (even though it is somewhat old news). From NPR~ “More than 230 years since Hampden-Sydney’s founding, tradition is very much alive at the Virginia college. The students, all men, wear bow ties and jackets to football games. On arriving for the school year, students are handed an etiquette guide. The college slogan [...]

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Story 1 Man Creates e-Memory (CNN) But Bell, who is 75 years old, takes the idea of digital memory to a sci-fi-esque extreme. He carries around video equipment, cameras and audio recorders to capture his conversations, commutes, trips and experiences. Microsoft is working on a SenseCam that would hang around a person’s neck and automatically capture every [...]