Rushing to a sane drug policy
Memo to Rush Limbaugh: Hey, Rush, we're counting on you, pal. Now that you might be feeling the hot breath of drug prosecutors on your neck, perhaps you might speak...
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Loose lips sink Rush Limbaugh’s sports TV job
Was Rush Limbaugh hired by ESPN because of his race? I raise that question in the wake of the conservative shock-radio commentator's high-profile resignation from his job as an analyst-panelist...
The wages of luck in a `jobless recovery’
This campaign season is beginning to look like what Yogi Berra might call "deja vu all over again." Imagine a president named Bush who gains sky-high approval ratings from a...
Looks like Clark should go back to basic training
Will the real Wesley Clark please stand up and throw his helmet in the ring? Such is the question I hear welling up from the masses as the retired general...
Wrestlers and rappers waking up young voters
When you think about it, the idea of rappers and wrestlers getting together to lure young people to the polls is not such an outlandish concept. After all, the two...
Blurring the line: Hussein and 9/11
One of my favorite mayors of all time, the late, great Harold Washington of Chicago, used to talk about politicians who "throw the rock, then hide their hand." That image...
The amazing clout of lobbyists swarming around Capitol Hill
HBO's new pseudo-reality series "K Street" offers an amusing peek inside the world of Washington power. However, its view inside the curtain that shrouds the real K Street is about...
Hearing hip-hop’s pathetic message
As marketing schemes go, the hip-hop star Nelly risks sending a lot of mixed signals with the name of the new energy drink he is marketing. It's called "Pimp Juice."...
What teenagers really want
I regret to inform those readers who tell me that they have enjoyed reading the world views of my son in this column from time to time that he now...
Lessons from an anthropologist
He was one of the people who gave us "Ebonics" in the 1990s. But don't hold that against him. John U. Ogbu also helped bring attention to the self-destructive tendency...