Month: September 2007

News

Rudy Giuliani Proposes Moving Kwanzaa to New Time Slot

NEW YORK—Rudy Giuliani may have skipped the GOP presidential debate at historically black Morgan State University last night, but his absence does not mean he won’t take African American issues seriously, a Giuliani spokesman said today. “The mayor wants to reassure his African American base that he is in touch with his inner blackness,” said Read More

News

Madeleine McCann Sightings Impede Investigation

LONDON – The latest Madeleine McCann “sighting” confirms an ironic phenomenon: sightings of the missing four-year-old are impeding the search for her by siphoning away time, money, and resources that could be spent more wisely applying thumbscrews to her parents. The most recent Madeleine sighting to come a cropper was in the village of Zinat, Read More

Sporting Life

Donovan McNabb Says Black Dogfighters Are More Criticized

PHILADELPHIA – Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb has gone deep again. His target this time is the perceived inequality in the treatment of white and black dogfighters. “Black dogfighters get criticized far more often than white dogfighters do,” Mr. McNabb told Philadelphia Inquirer columnist David Aldridge. “You saw what happened to Michael Vick. If that had been Tom Read More

Celebrities

Britney Spears Fans Will Stage Nude Protest Rally

LOS ANGELES – Britney Spears fans will stage a nude protest rally in front of the Staples Center this Saturday in support of “every mother’s right” to go naked around her children. The rally, which kicks off at noon, is sponsored by MUFF (Mothers Undressed in Freedom Forever), a pro-home-nudity group that counts many Britney Read More

Sporting Life

Donovan McNabb Says O.J. Simpson Was Framed

PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb believes O.J. Simpson was framed for kidnapping, armed robbery, and hooliganism because he is “too black for the dominant white culture” that rules America. “Black man can’t fart without getting arrested in this country because we scare all y’all,” Mr. McNabb told Today host Matt Lauer this morning. “It’s a Read More

News

Osama Bin Laden Bombs in CNN 911 Awards Opener

ATLANTA – It was meant to be Osama Bin Laden’s career revival, a triumphant return to form that would finally shush the incessant whispering that he was dead. Bin Laden, however, failed to live up to the moment when he kicked off CNN’s 911 Commemoration Awards on Tuesday. Dressed in a white hat, white shirt, Read More

News

Kate McCann’s Diary, an Exclusive Peek

LONDON – Pages purported to have come from Kate McCann’s diary have been photocopied and leaked to The Sun, England’s tabloid conscience. According to the paper’s managing editor, Malcolm Pease, the diary pages arrived via fax at The Sun‘s lifestyle desk late yesterday afternoon. “Independent handwriting experts have checked the writing against a sample of Kate McCann’s Read More

News

Petraeus Says Surge Is Working, Britney Spears Needs More Time

WASHINGTON, D.C. – General David Petraeus told Congress yesterday that President Bush’s surge in Iraq is working, but Operation Britney Spears will need more time before the fallen pop star can be entrusted with policing her own career. Meanwhile, said the nation’s top military commander, we must be patient and allow Ms. Spears “the time Read More