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Friedman, who favors black cowboys hats and western wear, is partial to black dogs. "The Friedman [dogs] are all mutts, poi dogs as they call them in Hawaii," Kinky says of his own five dogs - Mr. Magoo, Perky, Chumley, Fly and Brownie (the lone brown dog in the bunch). "The only thing wrong with having four black dogs and one brown dog is when I get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I stumble over them," Friedman says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Black Dogs Face Discrimination? | 6/20/2008 | See Source »

...personal responsibility were calculated to win over socially conservative whites who were turned off by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's tirades against persistent racism. But in his desire to appeal to such voters, Obama may have missed the balance that King maintained. Personal responsibility is a crucial, but only partial, answer to what ails black families. Huge unemployment, racist mortgage practices, weakened child-care support, stunted training programs for blue-collar workers who've been made obsolete by technology, and the gutting of early-childhood learning programs are all forces that must be combated. If we rightly expect more black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Rebuke of Absentee Black Fathers | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...really qualified to comment on either the series or the movie because I'm (a) male and (b) straight. And yet, having both those infirmities, I also feel estranged at times from Judd Apatow films. I have the anachronistic notion that romantic comedies needn't be exclusively partial to one gender; they should be critical and loving and true to both. So I'll soldier on with my mixed, distant, defiantly ignorant review of this 142-minute trifle - which comes close to being the longest non-musical romantic comedy in Hollywood history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex and the City: Kinda Into You | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...worried about the spin-offs, such as “Stuff Educated Black People Like,” that have been inspired by his site. “They’re not really that funny,” he said, adding that he’s partial to the title “White Stuff People Like.” Scholars of popular culture also made an appearance. Organizers said that as a combination of fan convention and academic conference, ROFLCon occupied a difficult space between celebrating Internet culture and critically examining it. “It?...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Conference Celebrates Internet Pop Culture | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...would picture beer as being the perfect complement to a meal.”The course focused on the physiological response when food is introduced into the mouth.“As an Englishman,” Berry says, “I’m partial to my beer.”Calling the course a “joint exploration,” Berry says he found the material fascinating, particularly as this was his first experience with the independent study program.The independent study program reminded Berry of his undergraduate experience at Oxford under...

Author: By Laura C. Mckiernan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Brews Unique Education | 4/22/2008 | See Source »

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