Yesterday, the media was pushing hagiographic narratives about the redemptive story of Robert Byrd’s past on race relations. The moral of the story is that you can always make up for being a racist son-of-a-bitch.

“Hip Hop Republican” Lenny McAllister spoke out on the shocking silence and the call for action surrounding the death of Derrion Albert and the need for change in the Black community.

Too close to home is all I think of in learning of the death of another one of my nearest and dearest friends from breast cancer this morning. The latest victim entered the hospital in July and is dead today less than six weeks from initial presentation. Of the six of us who hung together in high school and for class reunions, three are dead of breast cancer.

The media coverage of Michael Jackson’s death has been over the top. Surely there are other important issues that the world needs to ponder like Korea’s nuclear buildup and Iran’s instability. Could we do a major feature on Noble scientists in medicine whose work will be possibly adversely affected with Obamacare, business successes that will fold and go elsewhere with proposed soak the rich taxation overload, or insight on how jobs are created to show kids alternative job markets versus the media obsession with entertainer madness?

“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.”  – Michael Jackson by Shirley Hussar [...]