"I ran the largest and best police department in the world, the New York City Police Department. I saved more black lives than any of those people you saw on stage.” -- Rudy Giuliani, for some utterly baffling reason commenting on Beyoncé's performance at Sunday night's MTV Video ...read more
In this week's issue of Banter M: My Chemical Romance - Chez Pazienza marks the 10th anniversary of the surgery that removed a tumor the size of a pinball from his head with a highly revealing account of what life is like now -- particularly after turning to testosterone boosters ...read more
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the craziest conspiracy theory of 2016. In an amazing 10 minutes of utter lunacy from 'InfoWars' nutjob Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist lays out why he genuinely thinks Beyonce's latest video 'Lemonade' was paid for by the CIA in order to ...read more
Someday the angry masses who seem to make up the entirety of the internet will find something better to do with their time than be pissy over every little goddamn thing. Sadly, that day is not today. The latest target of their wrath: Amy Poehler. Specifically, a joke that turned ...read more
Maybe it's not a coincidence that last week marked the 15th anniversary of Metallica's lawsuit against Napster. Surely you remember, as one of the biggest bands on the planet took on a rising star file sharing service that allowed people to trade and download songs on the ...read more
It was a foregone conclusion that one day, eventually, the cold war between Gen-X and Millennial culture would finally go full-on nuclear. It turns out all it took to make it happen was an upset win at an otherwise tedious Grammys presentation. You already know what happened ...read more
(Photo: Nasty Little Man) If you're wondering what caused that violent rip in the fabric of reality that happened right around 11pm East Coast time on Sunday, it of course has to do with Beyoncé -- as all things do these days. Beck's excellent Morning Phase won Album of the ...read more
Hot on the heels of his race-shaking quasi-announcement of his pseudo-candidacy, Mike Huckabee sucked up a lot of media wind with an excerpt from his new book, God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy, in which he slammed pop superstar Beyoncé, and called her husband a pimp: “Beyoncé is ...read more
Mike Huckabee wants to run for president again for some reason, and he has his sights set on one crowd that he's had some trouble reaching as a white, middle-aged Republican man: The Youths. For his new book, God, Guns, Grits and Gravy -- which sounds like a rejected recipe from ...read more
Every once in a while, a news item comes along that provides a perfect snapshot of the times -- that neatly encapsulates everything a culture is all about at a moment in its history. Out of Houston today comes a story like that, the kind of thing you can stick a pin in along our ...read more
Last week, Solange Knowles attacked 'rapper' Jay Z, reminding everyone of the vast and pernicious security state that is droning babies around the world. Mr Z, a lackey of the White House and known Obama accomplice, has explicitly condoned the use of drones, rapping in the song ...read more
The British newspaper the Daily Mail was so outraged by Beyoncé's admittedly ridiculously hyper-sexual performance at the Grammys last night that they ran the following headline on their site today: The article then cataloged angry tweets from viewers outraged that Beyoncé ...read more
"Can you pay my bills? Can you pay my telephone bills? Do you pay my automo' bills? If you did, then maybe we could chill I don't think you do So, you and me are through" - "Bills" by Destiny's Child Beyoncé Knowles-Carter wrote what some are calling an essay on feminism ...read more
Like any white beta male, I'm a very big fan of Beyoncé. I delight in dancing to Single Ladies with my own life-partner lady, despite some concerns over the cisexist overtones of the song, and when the Queen Bey played the Super Bowl earlier this year I tuned in only for that. ...read more
It's Monday morning, so you know the drill. Time to get back to work. But take heart: the next few weeks should provide ample room for slacking off. Unless you're me, of course. Here's some crap for you to read. 1. Supplying Demands If you figured the recent budget deal in the ...read more
Remember that intro I wrote for last Friday's Morning Banter? Yeah -- just recycle that here. 1. 140 Character Assassination Twitter is the weapon of choice when it comes to voicing outrage these days. So you can imagine what happened when Twitter suddenly changed the way users ...read more
After news emerged that Kanye West demanded his dressing room at the BBC should be 'all white' and have ironed carpets, we thought it appropriate to gather a list of the top 10 most ridiculous things celebrities insist upon for them to cooperate with the outside world. 1. If ...read more
During First Lady Michelle Obama’s well-publicized Let’s Move fitness campaign that began in 2010, the pop music singer known as “Beyoncé” encouraged America’s youth to quit consuming blizzards of distilled sugar and landslides of lard and, occasionally, raise their heart ...read more
They raise money for charity just by being them. No one can really argue against raising money for charity, can they? A good deed is a good deed, whichever way you look at it. A charity by its very definition is good. Isn’t it? And there are no celebrities out there who don’t ...read more
Just as a young black man should be free to sing opera, there's no reason an upper middle class white woman shouldn't have the right to rap. Music isn't owned by any one racial demographic - it is an expression of human creativity and talent to be shared by anyone who enjoys ...read more
Back in 1997, after a few years out west working for KCBS, I was approached by NBC-owned WTVJ in Miami about the possibility of returning to my hometown. During negotiations with the station over a producer position, I went into pretty good detail about my reservations when ...read more
The fact that Jay Z and Beyonce went to Cuba on vacation apparently means that the celebrity couple endorse communism, dictatorship and all the abuses committed by the Castro government over the years. Republican lawmakers Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart sent a joint ...read more
Last week on our podcast, Bob Cesca threw out the question of whether it was a good idea for liberals to take on football and demand changes when it comes to the safety of players. He made a great point about how doping may be part of what's creating monsters on the field so ...read more
