CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Why Bother?

    (For the record, this was the only non-karaoke version of the song I could find; I don’t know anything about anime). Recently, a couple of my close friends, whose opinions I highly respect, have pulled me aside and asked, “What’s the point of engaging someone you’re never going to convince? Why bother?” Their line of logic, which is sound, goes something like this: By discussing someone else’s bone-headed opinions, you’re calling attention to them. By calling attention to them, you’re giving them credibility. And by giving them credibility, you’re providing them with an equal platform. Why do that? I understand…

  • JacquesBarack, Here You Go:

    This would be the perfect banner for your ambivalent, ambiguous, and anonymous website: Originally posted on the US Conference of Mayor’s website: The President admiring the Mayor’s Mardi Gras tie.

  • Merchant of Hate

    Greg Aymond, a local blogger and attorney who was once a member of the Ku Klux Klan and recently represented a group of white nationalists during the Jena Six fiasco, (apparently) recently discovered Microsoft Paint or CorelDraw. A week after publicly suggesting that African-Americans were, by and large, ethically challenged, quoting: …Ethics among Blacks is usually a lacking character trait. Mr. Aymond called the majority African-American City Council a “pack of monkeys”: It’s difficult to believe Mr. Aymond is truly committed to a “colorless” society, as he claims to be, when he refers to African-Americans as “monkeys,” “n***a(sic) street thugs,”…