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Monday Punday # 28

Monday-Punday #28   SirLoin, an amateur maritime historian, offers the following tidbit concerning the offshore sailing log of the USS Constituti...
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Monday Punday # 27

Monday-Punday #27   SirLoin notes that one of the delights of teaching History is the occasional jewel of a student blooper in a essay, derived f...
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Monday Punday # 26

Monday-Punday #26   Ah, the limerick – 5 lines of delightful nonsense (often ‘unclean’) – thus:   And now for the &#...
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A Rose by any other name: Pastel Pink Beauty Trend...

This is my ode to pink. A color, that if I were put into as a child, I’d scream bloody murder. I hated the feminine soft color, so Barbie, so gi...
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3 Off the Runway Beauty Trends for SS 2014

I don’t know if you can feel it, but Spring is in the air. And hopefully like me you have already started to scour the net to find the upcoming ...
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QOTW: “Why Can’t I Just Be a Baby Mama...

One reader asked us to discuss the potential option of black women opting to co-parent over having a partner full time. Here’s my take....
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Hey Folks, Meet ‘Friends of Jay’

Anyone ever wonder what the frequent commenter, ‘Friends of Jay,’ who often tells the story of the black woman he once loved who got away?...
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Monday Punday #25

Monday-Punday #25 SirLoin, up to his usual tricks, offers these groaners for your examination: A group of people are touring the White House in Washin...
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Blessed? Amazing?! Wonderful?!! How Is Your 2014 L...

Thus far, my year has been all of the above and more! How many of you made New Year’s Resolutions at the end of 2013? Well, now that one month h...
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Nichelle Gainer, style, fashion, book, black women, history, inspiration, vintage black book

Vintage Black Glamour Is Coming to a Coffee Table ...

Beauty. Class. Style. Grace. Talent. Nichelle Gainer, writer and proprietor of the tumblr site Vintage Black Glamour, is set to publish a coffee table...
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Apollo Nida, Phaedra Parks, Angela Stanton, book, work out video, Atlanta, lawyer, attorney, racketeering, Federal charges, arrest, rumors, indictment, marriage, felon, choices, black men, black women, swirling, RHOA, Real Housewives of Atlanta, reality show, arrest, felon, news,

Apollo Nida, Husband of RHOA Star Phaedra Parks, G...

This is foolishness at its finest. I’m not a Real Housewives of Atlanta Fan. In fact, I’ve never watched the show other than the occasiona...
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Monday-Punday #22

Monday-Punday #22   Well, it’s THAT time again, and SirLoin can serve up another set of groaners. Look at it this way … it keeps your...
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Michael Johnson, gay man, videotape, college, investigation, online dating, condom, safe sex, get tested, risk, awareness, Craig Lamar Davis, HIV, conviction, sex, married, minister, predator, jail, prison,

One Man Found Guilty of Not Disclosing HIV Status,...

Consider this post a friendly public service announcement about the importance of safe sex. It’s not just high schoolers who need this message. ...
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Monday Pun Day #21

Monday-Punday #20 Here’s a Pun Fact: Ferdinand Feghoot is a character invented by Reginald Bretnor, writing under the pen-name Grendel Briarton ...
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