Welcome To Year Six In Iraq

PLUS: We take of Bush’s blinders...Immigrants don’t cause crime, they prevent it...The FBI sniffs out the crooks behind the mortgage crisis...The White House could care less about women’s health...Starbucks is going back to the future...Mark Zuckerberg is worth more than all of Bear Stearns...Carrie Bradshaw is just fine, thank you very much...And we’ve got to fill out our brackets (go Big Red!). It’s March 20th, and the hip hop generation is crashing our party — just ask Keli Goff.

Celebration Excuse

The Black Death descends upon the world (no, not a heavy metal rock band), everyone feels sorry for Uncle Tom, and a wedding rock history will come to rue goes down. Here’s why Mic Check can’t wait for Revolution 9 this November.

1345

What do you get when Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars all meet in the 40th degree of Aquarius? Why of course, millions of people with black and purple spots, courtesy of the Black Death.

1852

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published, embarking on a glorious best-selling path and giving even the Bible a run for its money.

1854

Mic Check hears an elephant trumpeting in the distance. Yep, the Republican Party is founded.

1916

Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity and the Universe expands a little more with the eruption of excitement among space nerds everywhere.

1969

The Rock World and Art World collide: John Lennon and Yoko Ono marry.

1995

Case 1,234,345 in why your mom taught you to be afraid of cults: members of Aum Shinrikyo conduct a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway killing 12 and wounding 1,300 others.

Have some cake as positive reinforcement for your birthday

1904: B.F. Skinner, psychologist and expert in behavior modification

1925: The original Plumber, John “Never Forget Watergate” Ehrlichman

1957: Film director Spike Lee, always trying to do the right thing when it comes to race

1958: Holly Hunter, actress who doesn’t need a piano stunt double

Daybook

Stumpin’

Republican candidate John McCain still on his publicity stunt in Europe and the Middle East.

Congress

Senate

Not in session.

House

Still working on a tan during Spring District Work Period.

2:30 p.m.

Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee: Field hearing on H.R. 2833, the “Preexisting Condition Exclusion Patient Protection Act of 2007.”

TV

Daytime

Oprah: Fan Dreams Come True with Celline Dione

Ellen: official MILF Pamela Anderson, hilarious stand up comic Margaret Cho

Martha: Martha celebrates her 500th show!

Regis & Kelly: Josh Hartnett, dolphin lover Hayden Panettiere, most trusted actor in the emergency room James Pickens Jr., Nigella Lawson, Menudo

The View: hottie Jonathan Rhys Meyers, the other Boleyn girl Natalie Dormer, Drake Bell

Late night

Letterman: Super Bowl champion Eli Manning, Vince Vaughn, A Fine Frenzy (R 2/6/08)

Leno: ex-Senator and presidential hopeful John Edwards, Leslie Mann, Nada Surf

Ferguson: Ringo Starr (R 1/24/08)

Conan: Drake Bell, French-Israeli singer-songwriter Yael Naim

Colbert: Dean Kamen, the guy who invented the segway

Kimmel: Janet Jackson, Jackie Mason, Todd English (R 3/4/08)

 

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Crashing Parties With The Hip Hop Generation

Who: Keli Goff, author, Party Crashing: How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence

What: A one-on-one discussion with author Keli Goff about how generational differences between the civil rights generation and their children and grandchildren, a.k.a. the hip-hop generation, are affecting the 2008 presidential election and the future makeup of political parties.

Why You Should Care: Race is the issue of the day with the first ever viable black presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, delivering a powerful address earlier this week on the state of race in America. Not only do black Americans in the remaining contests play a crucial role in determining which Democrat faces the Republican machine come November, they might decide who ultimately sits in the Oval Office. [Amazon] [CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS]

The Audio

  • If you weren’t alive when something bad was happening… then you can’t really feel bad about it.
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  • “To define blackness as not being defined by going to one of the best schools in this country – it’s sort of like, what is that saying?”
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  • Keli Goff worries that all this talk about Obama not being “black enough” is sending the wrong message to kids in school.
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  • Remember back when “conservative” (racist) southerners were still part of the Democratic party? Well, Keli thinks Election 2008 could be the next big switcheroo.
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Popularity Contest

While you were busy filling out your March Madness bracket (go Georgia!), these were the stories the rest of the nation was reading.

NYT: Barack Obama’s Speech on Race

WASHPO: Library Releases Hillary Clinton’s White House Schedules

USAT: Americans should start seeing tax rebate checks in May

LAT: Spitzer’s prostitute a ‘Girl Gone Wild’

REUTERS: Obama’s lead over Clinton narrows: Reuters poll

BBC: ‘Healthier hearts’ for cat owners

ABC: Obama Parses Wright & Wrong in Race Speech

NBC: Couple, married 83 years, share their secret

CBS: The Science Of Sleep

CNN: Spitzer escort’s ‘Girls Gone Wild’ videos surface

FOX: Girl Pilot Who Flew Across the U.S. and Atlantic Dead at 26 of Suicide

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