If lawsuits were playbooks, the residents of Hamilton County got played by the Cincinnati Bengals. Nah. We got pimped. Every time I drive past Paul Brown Stadium, I can hear Bengals President Mike   

I am not jealous. Squeaky Negroes get ignored. But when majority culture sets out searching for "black power" and returns with sepia images of itself, something's gone terribly, horribly wrong. "Wh  

How will the families of Matthew Maupin and the families of all those anonymous missing, dead and assumed dead military personnel and civilians in Iraq celebrate the early and clandestine handover o  

Usted puede leer este artîculo en idioma Español visitando nuestra pâgina en internet. HAVANA, CUBA -- High school Spanish won't help me now. Outside -- whoomp! -- the air  

I'm not sure what defines "American." Nationalistic identity extends beyond borders where I was born, raised and enraged. Since we started a war we're international bullies, but neighbors still want  

About this time two summers ago, Atif Kemaz corralled chaos. Simone's, his New World bistro, was thick with it. Likewise, our neighborhood of East Walnut Hills -- the 'Nut to us -- was also rowdy u  

The 40ish blonde does the Bush Era multi-task, blathering loudly and flatly into a cell phone, haranguing the help. She badgers the effeminate American Airlines agent. He appeases her, clacking aut  

I am not a card-carrying anything. Even my video store membership is in peril. Neither am I a political animal. Usually I vote according to my needs -- not according to polls, scandals or the great  

You are eavesdropping. If we all spoke honestly to an unseen documentarian about gender, race and class, our diatribes would be manipulated by the seer's conceptualization of us. But it'd be li  

"All that she said was true/Give her some time, give her some space/All that she meant was good." -- Bjork Watching National Insecurity Advisor Condoleezza Rice misappropriate the truth dur