Chris Rock’s documentation of his being stopped by the police for driving while black seems like a pretty strong argument against some part of the “New Black” idea.

Once upon a time, I came up with an analogy. Consider biology. There are molecular biologists who study the very smallest bits and pieces of life. There are zoologists, who study the biggest single coherent parts (often just called “animals”). Molecular biologists marvel at how all life is fundamentally the same.…

Let’s just see Bernie on the case too, and close the ideological loop.

Depends on the job, no?

[ .... ]an industry that has now essentially standardized ethnic difference between salon worker and customer; this ethnic difference, reading the NYT piece, struck me as an essential obscuring factor in terms of the customer’s unfair but frequent perception of their manicurist as fundamentally other, operating on…

It seems to me that music has its biggest impact on the people who listen to it somewhere in the range of their 15th and 25th year, regardless of whether or not it was Nirvana, Jefferson Airplane, or Perry Como. For people outside of that window, their musical culture is either already largely formed, or still to…

I really don’t understand why people think that at any given point in time, there is only one sort of music “dominating” or even in ascendance.

I can’t call myself much of a rap fan, having come up during the electro-funk and nascent hip-hop era. The last rap that I thought was awesome was “Next type of motion” by Roots Manuva which is a roughly a couple of decades ago. I listen to experimental jazz and ambient sound fields more than I listen to rap or hip…

Just watch David Walliams if you want to see the^H^H^Ha gay reaction. Which the camera gives a lot of love to.

You might want to remind Howard about that idea.

Calling another interviewer a “syphilitic parasite” or a “clown” while on the Howard Stern show is some pretty dark irony, though probably not intended.

and if it was rephrased as

Jezebel needs more writers who can appreciate history that predates the interwebs. Thank you.

I don't get it. What would it mean to be marrying a guy with a recent history of several casual hookups with women? He decided to get married. That presumably means that he currently feels that his fiancee means an end to his casual hookups (unless they plan some sort of open relationship, but this was not mentioned).…

I don't see what his (bi)sexuality has to do with this.

A culture requires more than just behaviour, it implies some level of information exchange and coordination across a population. If several completely distinct groups of humans who have no contact with each other engage in the same behaviour, we wouldn’t say that they shared a culture, we’d say that they share a…

It was wherever they filmed The Killing Fields, Thailand I think.

So there is an epidemic of rape, certainly on college campuses and possibly off them as well. This seems easy enough to agree on (even if certain idiots have a hard time with it).

call collect! they’ll accept the charges, i am sure.

spalding gray had a great story in which the same thing happened to him. his rescuer told him "the sea is a lovely lady spalding, you can play in her but never play with her". never forgot it.