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...deep enough into any family and you can turn up some pretty interesting dirt. Ancestry.com found that Coleman Sharpton, the great-grandfather of civil rights activist AL SHARPTON, was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was the great-great-grandfather of Senator STROM THURMOND. Yep, ancestors of the deceased icon of segregation owned ancestors of the permed icon of Brooklyn, N.Y. "The shame is that people were owned as property," said the ever voluble Sharpton, who used the revelation to do a little sermonizing. "Strom Thurmond ran for President in 1948 on a segregationist ticket...
...Golden Boy was probably thinking of 'pulling the pin' as he would always say until Golden Boy and Hudaifah had a nice little chat and patched things up. Whereas if everybody else did that they would be thrown off the course (like some Turkistanis were if I remember rightly). Yep. That little runt David Matthew Hicks Al-Qaedah's 24 ct. Golden...
Starbucks? Yep. The company that brought the word venti into daily use has become a purveyor of solidly middlebrow culture to go with its joe. Beah's is the second book it has chosen to feature in its 6,000 stores. Its first was by best-selling male weepmeister Mitch Albom (he of those Tuesdays with Morrie), which suggests how far the child-soldier has moved as a phenomenon for mass consumption...
...Look at what you get. The Playstation 3 is expensive: $500 or $600 bucks, depending on which version you buy, plus $60 for each game. (An Xbox 360 only costs $400 max, and Nintendo's Wii - yep, that name, still funny - is only $250.) For that kind of scratch you want the deluxe treatment, and the PS3 simply doesn't deliver it. It's got some good-looking games, but unless you have a top-notch TV, the difference isn't mind-blowing. (And even if you do have a fancy TV, Sony makes you supply your own HDMI cable...
...Most Common Thought - Home. Always thinking of home, of my great wife and the kids. Wondering how everyone else is getting along. Regretting that I don't write more. Yep, always thinking of home...