I've used Campfire a lot, and it is quite cool, as described.

If you need these kinds of instructions, you are probably risking your life just to leave the house...

@christian ross:

I love Gandi.net.

Are people really having problems figuring out how to crush garlic?

A what for a what???

I've made all my New Year's resolutions with a mindset that January is for taking first steps to my resolutions. Not being perfect at them from the start, but encountering my challenges, getting into habits — progressive development.

There are some people, no matter how 'hip' and 'liberal' and 'aware', who are never ever going to understand what it means for those children, and masses of adults, to see Barack Obama become President, to see that African family walk out on that stage.

Sure, I'd like to verify/add more of my personal information into a mass database.

@otherginger: drunk could be an excuse...

@laurascr: fine, then she should be on television talking about how the country treated her favorite woman, rather than trying to get on record weeping for the "rise" of the slave.

@andheartss: That's my point, why pretend that the rise of 'the slave' was such a concern for her, when her concern was more about Hillary Clinton?

It was very emotional for African-Americans, in a way that can't be underestimated. If she was like me, at some point she was curled in a ball, praying.

Love Maya Angelou, but she supported Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama, so I cannot help but find her emotionalism, though genuine, still very late. If she felt so strongly about an African-American President, given her penchant for expression, that certainly should have come out in her choice, but it didn't until it…

That woman needs to be staked, garlic stuffed in her mouth, and exposed to sunlight to prevent her from rising at any point in our national political system.

We went to Harlem to await the news, and when the final word came, a scream went out across the streets, from the buildings, the entire place roared. We cried. I got text messages and emails from across Africa, from afro-latino friends in brazil, peru, venezuela, colombia, from black folks in Dubai, Iraq, Oman. Grown…

Dressing in revealing clothing does not represent liberation, particularly in places where many women have been socialized to view their worth in terms of how much attention their legs, breasts, hair, botoxed-face, etc. can attract from men. It is some deeply disturbing anti-feminist trick to convince women that the…

With a gathering of Africans (african and african-american, afro-latino), we are doing African food, with an emphasis on a few Kenyan dishes, and various (African-) American dishes. Talk will be what an Obama administration inspires us to do to reflect the change that we no longer feel fully repulsed by the American…

But are they fair, or wheat? Or darker than wheat? Because that is what really gets them those roles...

Quite often, we run into a (stupid but) well-meaning youngster who believes that turning to the internet, to the media, is a way to solve a problem. Sometimes it is, when it is truly about education and awareness raising that makes policy changes. Recently, an adorably addled brained staffer decided that her big…