Proverbs 11:29

"He that troubleth his own house shall inherit wind."
everyone's favorite senate candidate carpetbagger has some issues at home. despite her homophobic upbringing the daugher of alan keyes has come out today as "liberal queer". keyes being true to his convictions has put the "selfish hedonist" out of the house.

now as a general rule the personal lives of candidate's families are off limits, and i'm not making light this undoubtedly difficult time for them, but as chicago sun times' columnist neil steinberg succinctly outlines in a column titled, "Alan Keyes Has Some Explaining to Do":

Why is your daughter a lesbian?

A rude question. But the policy advocated by Keyes and his fellow faithful demands that gays and lesbians be forbidden from marrying or raising children. . .

They believe gay parents are bad for children because they're afraid that gay parents lead to gay children. . .Keyes, in his ignorant zeal, believes that gays come into the world by being recruited by predatory perverts, or through the weakness of, in his words, "selfish hedonists" or spring fully formed out a of a morally corrupt culture.

That has to be it, he argues. God surely doesn't make people gay. Gayness is picked up from SpongeBob.

i couldn't have put it better myself. no doubt more right wing irony is sure to come. . .

post superbowl thoughts

an exciting game and even though it was sloppily played, the score kept it close enough to merit watching until the end. mcnabb's critics were relatively silent but a lot flak was given to andy reid for the poor execution of the 2 minute offense. as we learned after the superbowl mcnabb was feeling ill, either from a latent cold or the shot he took from a sack. well its all over now and its back to cheering for my favorite team.

but as everyone knows in addition to the game the superbowl is all about the ads. those of you that have navigated around the site know that i used to be involved in the ad industry, and i like to highlight good commercials. here for your viewing pleasure are the best ads of the 2005 superbowl. enjoy.

little behind on the postings. . .

got a post super bowl update coming up later today. still having problems trying to blog on my mac through the school firewall. probably for the best i'd be tempted to blog in class instead of taking notes. more later. oh, check it out in response to an excellent suggestion by brad spachman my site is now syndicated through an RSS feed. still working out the technical details of how these aggregators work but for those tech savy and/or bluetooth enabled folks click on the orange buttons in the lower right corner.

our shining black prince. . .

ossie davis | 1917-2005
"Here, at this final hour, in this quiet place, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes, extinguished now and gone from us forever."

with those words ossie davis began his eulogy for malcom x in 1965. they are apropos to davis' passing as well. a giant of stage and film, only sidney poitier or paul robeson have had as much of an impact on the african-american presence in these art forms. as the oscars approach and the recent performances of jamie foxx are rightly praised, we should acknowledge the doors opened to him and all african-american actors by ossie davis.
ossie davis obit on cnn & @ san francisco gate chronicle.

superbowl thoughts

a melange of recent events has me thinking about the superbowl and the racial politics of sports: ken burns' excellent documentary on jack johnson, the recent passing of heavyweight champ max schmeling, and the presence of a black quarterback at a super bowl. we've come a long way from when doug williams was asked "how long have you been a black quarterback?" or have we?

the criticism of rush limbaugh towards mcnabb last year only highlighted that race still very much matters. i'd be disingenuous if i said this year i wasn't affected by it. go eagles. go mcnabb.

check out this article in time magazine called, 'donovan's revenge'

ipod ubiquity

so what do you know usa today discovers this ipod thing is popular.(gasp!) in their defense up until recently ipods were still kind of a niche market -- albeit a large niche. now after 10 million were sold over the holiday season, no one should be allowed to ask, "what's an ipod?" and speaking of the pod mad props to my buddy brad for gracing my ipod with the U2 box set. its a beautiful day!