Dear Married Man: Keep Your Distance!

Atlanta, Georgia (jacked via CNN) — My friend posted this message as her Facebook status update: Maybe it’s just me, but I am extremely uncomfortable with any married man calling me “just to say hi.” Not good! Respect your wife!

My initial response was this has to be a joke … right? Then the comments started flying with woman after woman not only liking the status update but also telling their own tales of married men trying to befriend single women.

The biggest complaint from most women was that lately some married men have been living double lives. In social settings, these married men partied all night long, had lingering conversations and exchanges with single women all under the guise of business for their charity or event.

These married men are the “undercover agents” of the single scene. They purposely put themselves in situations where they can infiltrate the single female scene all the while wearing their wedding bands to make these women feel safe.

One woman said it best on my friend’s Facebook comment thread: “If a married man is trying to cultivate a friendship with me and I don’t know his wife, he’s out of line and I want nothing to do with him. The last thing I need is a woman looking at me sideways thinking I’m interested in her man. I’m too grown for that kind of drama.”

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Editorial: What the Cash Money Oil Deal Might Mean For Hip-Hop

When Cash Money CE Bryan “Baby” and Ronald “Slim” Williams announced his new oil venture mid-last week, Bronald Oil, many took it up as sign that Hip-Hop entrepreneurs were stepping on to higher grounds—making “power moves.” Unfortunately, more is at stake than a mere business deal which could rake in some serious money.

The oil industry is a dirty one, confined to a different league—run by different breeds of men. It is marked by corruption, graft, back-door deals and every other unethical invention imaginable. It makes the music industry—for all its shadiness—look like a Girl Scout lemonade sale. Safe for a limited few who try to do the right thing, most tycoons are, in fact, over-zealous corporatists whose love of money is only outlasted by their disregard for the communities and lives ruined from pollution of the environment. It would be wrong to paint the entire oil field business bad based on the crimes of a few major corporations, but, by-and-large, most aren’t committed to doing right by communities—even if their mission statements swear otherwise.

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Blizz McFly-The Shuttle Approaches

Milwaukee stand up!!

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Oregon Sticks it to the Man!

Last night, Oregon’s voters approved a $727 million tax increase on businesses and high-income earners, forestalling deeper budget cuts in a shift for a state with a history of defeating levies at the polls.

Oregonians voted to keep taxes enacted by Democratic Governor Ted Kulongoski in July, according to a count of ballots cast by more than half of the state’s registered voters. Measure 66, which raises taxes on households earning $250,000 or more, passed by 54 percent. Measure 67, which increases corporate levies, garnered favor of 53 percent.

Legislators enacted the tax boost last year to help close a $4 billion hole that the U.S. recession opened in the state’s budget. The levies spurred a challenge from foes who gathered enough signatures to force the referendum. By targeting businesses and the wealthy, proponents parried resistance from voters who twice defeated tax increases in the wake of the 2001 recession.

“It’s a go-after-the-rich strategy,” said John Matsusaka, president of the Initiative and Referendum Institute at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. “It shows that some voters have switched their minds and they’re more likely to go after the rich.”

The results are from an unofficial count of 1.12 million ballots released by the Secretary of State’s office by 11:15 p.m. local time yesterday. That accounts for 55 percent of the state’s registered voters, who cast ballots in a mail-in election that concluded yesterday.

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No Throw Away People!

A clip from Van Jones’ amazing speech at #Poweshift09.

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