Joe "You Lie!" Wilson Seem A Little Shook

The Republican, South Carolina Rep. who got mighty gully (Do the kids still say, "gully"?) during the President's speech by calling him a liar on national television doesn't seem to be dealing with the fall out anywhere near as bravely. According to Black Web 2.0 the internet response clogged the series of tubes known as the internetS. Joey even surpassed America's love of thick chicks.

It appears that the backlash has taken a bit of a toll on him. I hope he doesn't make his living through public speaking.

An Animated Look At The War

Soldier Finds His Voice Blogging From Iraq

By Brandon Griggs

(CNN) -- Bullets were pinging off our armor, all over our vehicle, and you could hear multiple RPGs being fired, soaring through the air every which way and impacting all around us. All sorts of crazy insane Hollywood explosions were going off. I've never felt fear like this. I was like, this is it, I'm going to die.

When U.S. Army machine gunner Colby Buzzell began blogging about his combat experiences from a military base in Mosul, Iraq, he wasn't looking for attention or trouble. Buzzell just wanted a way to chronicle what he saw and did and felt during the Iraq war.

But his visceral, first-hand accounts were a bracing antidote to dry news reports and bloodless Pentagon news releases. In the first major war of the Internet age, Buzzell and other soldier bloggers in Iraq offered readers around the world unfiltered, real-time glimpses of an ongoing conflict.

"Here's a soldier in a combat zone ... writing about it and posting it on the Internet. I don't think that's ever been done in previous wars," Buzzell said.

"It just provides another perspective that no embedded journalist can ever do," said the veteran, now a freelance writer in San Francisco, California, and the author of "My War: Killing Time in Iraq." "An embedded journalist is just there observing. But a soldier writing about it -- you can't get more embedded than that."

Continue reading profile of Mr. Buzzell, here.

For more of Colby Buzzell's writings you can cop his memoir of his time in Iraq, My War: Killing Time in Iraq.

Please Help Keep NPR's News & Notes On The Air

Jasmyne Cannick has started a Petition in an effort to try and keep NPR's News & Notes show alive.

Please sign it support her effort and sign it. There aren't tons of outlets for black voices in the media. We need as many places as possible to get news from a black perspective.

I Need Your Help! :(

I happened to be browsing the internetS as I tend to do and I stumbled upon some startling news from Professor Tracey. My favorite radio show/podcast will be going dark in the first half of 2009. I'm sick about this on a couple levels. First, that podcast is the reason why this blog exists. NPR's New & Notes helped me discover different blogs that revolved around the black community and the blogs that I discovered through that show led me to find even more blogs. Odds are if I have visited your blog, Farai Chideya is the reason why, either directly or indirectly. Secondly, her show was my go to source for news from a Black perspective.

Can anyone out there recommend a podcast I can use to fill this void? I prefer to listen to my news & editorials. Please? Anyone?

:(

Deep Thoughts (Rambling Man)

If Stevie Wonder were a white woman, he'd be Carly Simon . . . I wish zShare would get their shit together and enable embedding of content. I like the way the windows player is embedded in their site . . . Will a younger NAACP leader improve the image of the organization with younger people, like yourself? Yeah, I said it YOU, that is if anyone is actually reading this . . . Where's my Oprah? Where's the Oprah for Black men? Seems like she always giving stuff out or doing things for women. I could use a free car or something . . . Yesterday while on my lunch break I saw 4 guys all on Segways. I've decided that I want to start a Segway gang. Something similar to a motorcycle gang, but with Segways. We would have cool leather jackets with our nicknames on them . . . I'm tired of Olivia Munn on AOTS. She's not funny and she clearly is just another Ron Burgandy:



I wish they would get someone who actually did know something about games and gadgets, instead of someone who is just trying to act. Her schtick is getting tired . . . Does Jay-Z need to have a passenger in the car when he's in the HOV lane?

The Genesis

Ever since Zune Marketplace has added podcasts, I have been listening to NPR's News & Notes religiously. I love Farai Chideya, but I especially love her bloggers roundtable. I always feel that it's way too short. I typically fast forward to it in the podcast and go back and listen to the rest of the podcast later, on my way home from work. Basically that show was the inspiration for this blog to a degree. I wanted to promote some of the people and blogs that I like. Some of the blogs I have listed I found through other sites, some of them I found directly or indirectly through Farai's bloggers roundtable.