The X Fact(her): Don’t Believe the Hype!

The sky is falling.

No need to go outside and look for yourself. Trust me. I’m on the Internet so what I say must be true.

The sky is falling.

Rush to your neighbors and tell them too. Keep your head down as you do this as not to look at the sky because its falling and you don’t want to get hurt.

Tell everyone you know that the sky is falling but be sure to say it like this:

“I heard/someone told me/read somewhere the sky is falling.”

Make sure to say it with such conviction that they have no choice to believe you. In a panic they will then pass the same information along to their network.
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Chloe

Glenn Beck Goes After Van Jones!

I just got this interesting link to one of the blogs over at the Los Angeles Times. Apparently, Glenn Beck is fighting back against the recent ad boycott by attacking White House special adviser and Color of Change co-founder Van Jones. Color of Change has been pressing corporate sponsors to boycott Beck’s show for recent President Obama is a “racist” statements.

On today’s show Glenn Beck challenged Van Jones’ credibility and background and even said:

“Why is it that such a committed revolutionary has made it so high into the Obama administration as one of his chief advisers?” Beck asked.

Check out the link and tell me what you think!

Looks like Glenn Beck isn’t going to go down without a fight.

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Biko Baker

Lights, Camera, Revisionist History

On Saturday night, I took a date to go see the new Quentin Tarantino flick, Inglourious Basterds. I had been waiting for this movie for at least four or five years, so let’s just say that I was a little excited.

It was a fantastic movie and I highly recommend it – for the strong of stomach, that is – but it does evoke some interesting questions.

Without giving anything away, the movie takes place in Nazi Germany during World War 2 and stars a rag-tag group of international soldiers attempting to take down Hitler’s Nazi regime. However, major events regarding the defeat of the Nazi party stray so far away from actual history that it could be called revisionist. Since film is such an incredible historical education tool (see Schindler’s List or Amistad for a few examples that are used in high schools today), should we be worried that a historical film about recent events remixes and revamps history for dramatic purposes?

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Steve Romain

14 Myths About Health Care Reform

Isn’t Twitter amazing. Really?! Who would have ever thought that finding cool ish on the Internet could be so easy? Like yesterday, someone tweeted out this fresh (like hi-top fades and spike lee movies) link to a list of all the myths about heath care reform. I am glad someone is cutting through the B.S. Check out the link and come back and let me know what you think. I personally thought it was hecka helpful. Shouts out to Mediamatters.org

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Biko Baker

Completely Not Fake Hollywood Stories: Aaron McGruder (The Creator of the Boondocks)

I’m no baller, but over the course of the last several years I have had many interactions with the rich and the famous. Of course, most times nothing really spectacular happens. Famous people after all, are just regular people like you and me. (Well, some of them are regular, others are either extremely short or pretentious buttheads…but I digress.)

But there has been one or two times when I have been kicking it with a baller and something really cool happens. Like the time I almost got beat up at Death Row’s corporate office or the time ?uestlove told me that he’d “rather spin records than do coke.” (I think he was trying to say he likes to DJ because it keeps his mind busy, but ?uestlove is a bigger nerd than me so it was sort of hard to interpret what he was saying.)

So in the spirit of Charlie Murphy and Rick James, every now and then I plan to drop a blog about one of my Completely Not Fake Hollywood Stories. Heck, if Eddie’s little brother can get famous retelling his big bro’s experiences why can’t I get some blog traffic telling mine.

After the jump is a Completely Not Fake Hollywood Story about the legendary cartoonist Aaron McGruder.
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Biko Baker