Kabobfest - First Poll on US Opinion on Gaza: Democratic Politicians Ignore Public Opinion
In one of the more interesting analytical writings on the American (non-)debate on the Israeli assault on Gaza, Glenn Greenwald considers how alarmingly out-of-step Democratic politicians are with their party’s rank-and-file views. He cites the first poll on American public views of […]

The Angry Black Woman explains why The Dictionary is Not a Perfect Rhetorical Tool.
Bottom line: whipping out a dictionary definition during a discussion of complex issues is ill-advised at best. I would even go so far as to say it’s dumb. It doesn’t put you over on anyone else and it doesn’t win […]

Shameless Promotion
This is a big month, readers.
First off, Nadra Kareem and I are in this month’s issue of Bitch Magazine (the Noir Issue #42).
Nadra wrote “Am I [Para]normal?” about the heroines in Lois Duncan’s novels and the relationship between teen coming of age stories and the supernatural. It’s an excellent piece, particularly in […]

Richard Rodriguez is featured in a provocative interview for Salon on Why Churches Fear Gay Marriage:
You said recently the real issue behind the anti-gay marriage movement is the crisis in the family. What do you mean?
American families are under a great deal of stress. The divorce rate isn’t declining, it’s increasing. And the majority […]

Ennis of Sepia Mutiny opines on What Obama’s Victory Means:
What does this mean for desis? Well, not much in some ways. We’re still a small group, and we’re not going to get singled out for ponies and party favors.
But I think, for the first time, we’ve been truly seen and recognized. Obama knows both South […]

Reminder: Happy Hour in DC tonight at the Chi-Cha Lounge. Fun starts around 5:30.
Women’s eNews talks about the Global Gender Gap:
The economic, political and educational gender gaps have shrunk globally, with equality between women and men improving in more than two-thirds of 130 countries analyzed in the annual Global Gender Gap Index. The Nov. […]

Jenn at Reappropriate has an interesting perspective on Palin and Bipartisan feminism.
Angry Asian Man points us toward this Complex post on “When Hollywood Rips Off South Korea.” I agree with AAM, as a J.S.A. remake makes no freaking sense. I’m also kind of shocked at the My Wife is a Gangster remake with […]

Miriam Makeba has passed on.
My girl Veronica has a great piece for the Women’s Media Center called Larry Summers is Not the Change I was Expecting:

After his departure from the Harvard presidency he faded from the limelight. This week his name, along with New York Federal Reserve Chairman Timothy Geithner, has been bandied about as […]

M. Junaid Levesque-Alam blogs for WireTap about Equality Deferred.

Lost in this celebration, however, has been any serious treatment of the Arab and Muslim question. Obama was ceaselessly and openly pilloried by conservatives as a foreign, exotic, unpredictable quantity, not only because he was of mixed racial heritage, but also because he was wrongly said to […]

Ta-Nehisi Coates - More on Prop 8
Dan Savage is pissed:

I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there–and they’re out there, and I think they’re scum–are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans, […]

I published a piece in for the American Prospect, detailing “Five Ways We Talked About Race and Identity This Election:”

Can we talk about race for a minute? I know — we’ve been talking about race since 2007, when Barack Obama formally entered the primary. The 2008 election has galvanized discussions of race (as well as […]

Sad news for Jennifer Hudson - her mother and brother were murdered; the shooting has been categorized as domestic violence. An Amber alert has been issued for Hudson’s nephew, Julian King.
Stereohyped reports on an ING survey that states black women give away too much of their income.
Transgriot points our attention to the […]

by Latoya Peterson

Apparently, so post-racial that the Feds just interrupted an assassination plot that would have eventually targeted Barack Obama.
Two white supremacists allegedly plotted to go on a national killing spree, shooting and decapitating black people and ultimately targeting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, federal authorities said Monday.
In all, the two men whom […]

Jeff Chang just posted a fascinating interview with Immortal Technique about the election:

[Immortal Technique:] We always talk about building unity among the races but a lot of the times there’s not unity within the races themselves. I think the people who are most racist against one another are the people who look kind of like […]

Some quick notes before we jump into these:
1. Del.icio.us is still messed up, but I can still see what you send me. Please continue to send links via del.icio.us and I’ll excerpt them here.
2. I’m over at Jezebel this week, cohosting Crappy Hour with Megan. Normally, those posts go up before noon, […]