PAULA NEAL MOONEY

...if not for Cory Booker having been a Rhodes Scholar, nor for his having garnered degrees from Stanford, Oxford and Yale Law School... ...if not for shirking the fabulous penthouse life Cory Booker could be living right now (with a high-blinging corporate job) to instead run for mayor of Newark, New Jersey— losing his first attempt then sticking with to win the next election... ...if not for Cory Booker putting up with NO HOT WATER for the past eight years along with other elderly residents living in the Brick Towers Housing Project in a rough section of Newark... ...but if only for these lines that Cory Booker spoke on Oprah yesterday when describing how he took a 15- and 16-year-old who both threatened his life under his wing, telling them: "The first thing I said is, 'You've got to dress properly. You've got to cut your hair… People judge you on how you present yourself,'" Cory Booker said. (I know he might catch hell for that "nappy hair...

So sad. I really thought REESE WITHERSPOON and RYAN PHILLIPPE were going to make it. I thought REESE WITHERSPOON and RYAN PHILLIPPE were an anti-Hollywood kind of couple. Now today comes news from TMZ that they are splitting up after seven years of marriage. She's so real and down to earth. He's so…so…I don't know…not as famous as Reese? I wonder if that had anything to do with the impending divorce. Ryan gave Joaquin Phoenix such guff when Joaquin mounted the stage to accept his Golden Globe for the EXCELLENT movie Walk the Line, which Reese also won a Golden Globe for . Ryan Phillippe yelled out to Joaquin (maybe he was just drunk and happy) in such a way that it made me surmise that Ryan wanted attention. Maybe to steal back some of the spotlight that both he and Reese shared when I first saw them together in Cruel Intentions. "Ryan Phillipe better hold on to Reese as much as he can ..." Pink is the New Blog eerily predicted earlier this year, posting, ...

Woo! 70 Bones! (Update: Looks like you can double that price since I last blogged about this kid-tough digital camera ) Still...I must have one of these new digital cameras for kids from the geniuses at Fisher Price , who obviously know enough about rowdy and Ansel Adams would-be kids to develop a kid-tough digital camera strong enough to withstand bumps and bruises. Fisher Price obviously also knows enough about us material-hungry parents raising pride-producing pint-sized Picassos (strike that, he was loony), miniature Georgia O'Keefes (yes, I know they were both painters -- you got the Ansel Adams reference above, right?) to know that we'll drop 70 bucks on a new toy instead of our mounting credit card debt to make for happy and prodigious munchkins. Tags: digital camera for kids kid tough digital camera kid tough digital camera real

Inmate Charged with Forcibly Tattooing the Forehead of the Man who Raped and Killed His 10-Year-Old Cousin I've seen this Katie's Revenge photo before. Today the story made the front page of AOL.com . I weep over the evil that is in this present world. Let that be a lesson to others like him. Probably cold comfort for Katie's family, however. I hope they can still somehow, from somewhere from deep within their grieving souls say: "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him..." Job 13:15 Read the story here. Tags: katies revenge katys pic photo katies revenge katies revenge photo katies revenge picture

Were the Gold Bottles of that Ace of Spades a Fake? Have we all been duped by Armand de Brignac 's so-dubbed "Gold Bottles of that Ace of Spades" that had the hip-hop community and poseurs pining away for a bottle after seeing Jay-Z's "Show Me What You Got" video? Armand de Brignac first issued this press release . Hip-hop heads Googled away. Then HipHopGame.com busted the game. Business Week has even buzzed about it, with Burt Helm heading down to an unassuming SoHo building to get to the bottom of the story. I'm kind of glad that the Gold Bottles of that Ace of Spades don't "really" exist, at least not how we thought it did. No wonder it's supposedly so hard to get your hands on a bottle. Anyhoo, I was having waking "alpha state" nightmares about any unintended young alcoholics I may have created by writing this blog post called Gold Bottles of That Ace of Spades that had Luxist all abuzz. Tags: antique gold gold bott...

Let me count the ways: 1- I love thee for the depth and breadth of Google feed crawls that are sure to drive up my blog numbers, along with the new comments Blogger Beta has caused me to receive in the middle of the night 2 - I love thee for the Beautiful Beta blogs that have appeared in your wake 3 - I love thee for the new post labels, which have aided my SEO with Google, especially on the popular Abbie Cornish Pics piece and I love Digital Inspiration for this tip on how to label old blogger postings 4 - I love to the heights that my soul can reach whilst never having to wait and watch that 23% published, 44% published, 77% published winding thing again in my life 5 - I love thee for keeping the Edit HTML tab alive 6 - I love thee for the drop-and-drag feature that allows me to easily design my blog page, along with the pretty color chart I can now reference instead of constantly Googling for the HTML color codes: 7 - I love thee for the ease of updating my blogroll 8 - I love t...

On The View today I saw clips of this new documentary called Deliver Us From Evil , which opened today in New York City. Directed by Amy Berg , the Lionsgate's documentary Deliver Us From Evil follows Oliver O'Grady, formerly Father O'Grady, a California priest who sexually abused dozens of children during the 1970s up until his arrest in 1993. Oliver O'Grady After serving only seven years of a 14-year sentence, "Father Ollie" now lives as a free man in Ireland. What is most striking about O'Grady is his sickeningly honest admission of being excited by young people, whom O'Grady is creepily nearby a lot in parks and such as Berg extracts his honest confessions. What is most heartbreaking are the accounts from the former young people he abused, now adults who weep in Deliver Us From Evil. One woman said that her last memory of O'Grady was intense pain before blacking out. What is most infuriating is that O'Grady was repeatedly protected and s...

Great. The misleading Conversations With God book is now a misleading movie . (Search inside all right, inside yourself, not this book!!!) I first read this Conversations with God back in 1996 and it spoke to everything I was looking for: * A "god" who doesn't punish * A "god" I didn't have to fear * Something smarter and more intelligent than that old Christianity I'd been running from all my life. Well, I found all these comforting platitudes in this little tome, but in 1999 when I suffered two miscarriages and my mother dropped dead suddenly, who was the Only One there to truly comfort me when no person or feel-good fluff couldn't? Jesus Christ. Put down this book and pick up the real Good Book -- that Walsch claims isn't real -- to find the true path to enlightenment and hope. Neale Donald Walsch does a disservice to folks by tickling their ears with teaching that does not lead to the true salvation plainly stated in John 14:6 where Jes...

...so sang the Tom Tom Club. Cocaine Yanked from 7-11 Shelves Think I'll stick with Red Bull and Starbucks. They don't make my heart palpitate and explode like this Cocaine energy drink, recently ordered pulled from 7-Eleven's shevles, probably would. Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Who needs to think when your feet just go ...Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon ... Can't you just hear the feet of preteens scurrying about to get the last cans of this stuff on the underground market like that sponge-worthy episode of Seinfeld? Read all about Cocaine here... Tags: cocaine energy drink 7-11 7 11 eleven seven redux beverages pulled shelves james kirby

...something sacred, something covenant-like, something biblical (or at least there should be) that makes me want to keep it between a woman and a man, for now. Yesterday, New Jersey's Supreme Court didn't go all the way as to require the state to allow same-sex marriage, but said same-sex couples can't be denied the same rights and benefits that male and female couples get. So now the state legislature has 6 months to figure out how to solve this dilemma, which includes the decision to allow civil unions. Civil unions I can deal with. Marriage, I don't know... I waver on this topic because I don't hold a vehemence against homosexuals as I do against abortion. With gay couples, at least no one dies a horrific death. Or, at least they shouldn't. Gay bashing is deplorable. What happened to Matthew Shepherd was a true, modern-day tragedy. Jesus was about love. God is love. Besides, I can easily see how same sex couples would be attracted to one another. My ob/gyn...

I guess it's time to set the old microwave clocks, oven clocks, clock radios in the bedroom and everything else that doesn't roam or automatically reset itself back this weekend due to daylight-savings time starting earlier than it will in years to come thanks to a law passed last year. According to an AP report , "it's the last time this will happen in October." Daylight-saving time will end later "beginning in 2007," says the article, "lasting from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November." It cautions drivers to be extra careful driving in the dark on Halloween to avoid children. The official change occurs at 2 a.m. Sunday, though most folks will make the change before going to bed Saturday night. Areas that don't observe daylight-saving time? Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas. Daylight-saving time will come back like a lamb on March 11 2007.

Vista Print Business Cards Normally I don't click on the emails I get that are loaded with colorful photos that look like spam. But today, when I got an advertisement email from VistaPrint , for 250 free full-color business cards , I took it as a sign from God. You see, my old business cards from Office Max are great (only 11 bucks for a row of a thousand) but they are plain black and white with the newbie type of writer quill and ink well logo. Plus, they had my home address on them, and I felt uncomfortable handing them to just any Joe Blow that I needed to interview, even if I did meet those Joe Blows at church. There are No Coincidences Months ago I was clicking around Amazon looking for authors of forthcoming books to interview, and I came across Katina Z. Jones , author of several books. Amazingly, we discovered that we both live in the same town -- Akron, Ohio -- only blocks away from each other! (You gotta love that Net to bring the world closer together, heh?) So Katina a...

Madonna on Oprah Today Setting the Record Straight About Adoption I stand by what I said before about Madonna's adoption of an African baby boy . Today on Oprah, Madonna was authentic in her explanation about how little David captured her heart. "I wanted to open my home and give a life to a child..." Madonna said of little sick David, who is getting better now, is HIV-negative and a part of her family. He could have been one of the many who don't make it to age 5, Madge said. God love her! Every person criticizing her should follow her lead. Tags: madonna oprah madonna oprah show madonna on oprah madonna baby photos madonnas baby madonna black baby madonna adoption madonna africa adoption pictures madonna baby madonna baby pictures madonna adopts baby madonna+baby+black madonna baby pix madonna baby adoption madonna madonna madonna madonna new baby madonnas new baby madonnas+baby+black madonnas baby pictures madonnas baby pics madonnas baby photos...

"The little girl has red hair but it should be black," a man said tonight, pointing at images whirring on a projection screen at a baby girl in India with auburn hair so thin it showed her scalp. "It's red because she's not getting enough nutrients," he explained, and that's when I saw her bare bottom peeking beneath her shirt. The baby crawled around the dirty streets with no diaper or anything on at the feet of grown men. I had to hold it together. I was at The Chapel on the campus of The University of Akron, during their world missions night. Each room was set up as a different country, and in each I learned a little about the amazing work these admirable people of God are doing across the globe. Could I be like them? Like the beautiful woman with the beautiful Spirit who told me she did fear being killed by the guys in Indonesia who are allowed to kill their wives with spears and no earthly retribution? Can I be like the people who give up their ho...

The crazy Carter boys from the House of Carters warmed up Tyra Banks ' couch during today's episode of The Tyra Banks Show . Here's the lowdown: Aaron didn't cheat with Paris Hilton after she and Nick broke up; Aaron was just being a faithful brother and finding out who Paris did cheat on Nick with... Nick said he didn't beat Paris ... Aaron loved Hilary Duff the most, his "first love," in between breaking up and hooking up with her and Lindsay Lohan a gazillion times... Nick has a crush on Tyra Banks , who said she's old enough to be Nick's aunt and Aaron's mama... Tag it up: nick aaron carter the tyra banks show paris hilary duff lindsay lohan cheat crush abuse tyra banks hit

White & Nerdy Lyrics and Video by Weird Al Yankovich This guy just cracks me up! If you need a laugh at work, turn down your speaker and watch the White & Nerdy video by Weird Al Yankovich, then read his amazingly funny lyrics. Al, you've got us R-O-T-F-L-O-L! My non-white but still nerdy tags: white nerdy video lyrics and weird al white and nerdy white and nerdy lyrics white and nerdy video yankovic straight outta lynwood straight outta lynwood

I was in Boston the only time anyone ever called me a nigger to my face. A bunch of us college interns were pumping gas, and a cherry-red pick up containing a couple of white boys sped by and screamed the word.Our group stopped and stared. Things moved in slow motion. We were stunned into silence. The Departed is Bloody Hell This memory emerged this weekend, when my husband took me to see The Departed , Martin Scorsese's ultra-violent pseudo remake of Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak’s 2002 Hong Kong action film, Infernal Affairs. Set in the gritty side of Boston, away from the cobble-stoned niceness of Newbury Street, The Departed opens with Jack Nicholson using the slur. I sat there in the packed theater and tried to play it off like most blacks do in that sort of situation, pretending it didn’t really matter, and went ahead and absorbed myself into the crime drama, experiencing it as sort of a black fly on a rough white underworld wall of the Irish Mob. Besides, Scorsese has a pre...

Uh oh. Just when I defended Madonna's adoption of little 13-month-old David Banda , now his father, Yohane Banda, says he never meant to give up his son for good . Read the report... Tags: madonnas madonna Reuters Television Yohane Banda David

Just when I thought we'd all have to start diving under our desks like during the Cuban missile crisis, North Korean leader Kim Jong II claims he is sorry for the previous nuclear blasts and says he won't do it again. Read more... Tags: north korea sorry apologizes kim jong nuclear test bomb atomic atom II

T.R. Knight and R.J. Helton Both Say They Are Gay My mother always said that back in the slave days, slavemasters' wives would many times call their husbands by their first initials in front of the slaves, so that the darkies wouldn't get too familiar with their bosses and remain mysterious. Turns out that another couple of initial-named stars had secrets too. According to the New York Post's Page Six column , Grey's Anatomy star T.R. Knight confessed to People.com that he was gay. Now we know what was behind the fight on the set of Grey's Anatomy recently. Supposedly, Isaiah Washington outed T.R. Knight , the beloved goofy-haired and sweet-faced George , when Dr. Preston Burke fought with McDreamy's Patrick Dempsey and George came to McDreamy's rescue. The National Enquirer quoted Washington as saying some very unsavory things about T.R. Knight , who told People, "I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me." ...

Turns out the Holy Bible didn't make this list of "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" , but I would've put it at numero uno on a list of good reads you might want to get in before meeting your Maker. Tags: 1001 books you must read before you die 1001 books must read before you die

Tammy Skinner Shoots Herself in the Stomach, Kills Full-term Baby Girl and Gets Acquitted I don't even feel anger over today's acquittal of Tammy Skinner , a poor black mother of two who shot herself in the stomach on the morning she was due to give birth to her third child. All I feel is sinking sadness. I can't help but wonder what this says about our nation, when a full-term baby can suffer an horrific death like this and have the murder case dismissed. I also wonder how this rock-bottom event will turn the tide against our "abortion culture" on Nov. 7... Read the sad story here... Tags: pregnant , woman , shot , herself , stomach , dismissed , acquitted , tammy ,skinner , tammy skinner , shot baby , fetus , killed , child , judge , westbrook parker , circuit , court , dismissed , acquitted , Westbrook Parker , Circuit Court JudgeWestbrook Parker, Judge Westbrook Parker, Judge Parker, grand jury , grand jury , unborn , abortion , gun , murder , girl , poor

Updated Post: Antique Gold or Gold Bottles of that Ace of Spades? The New Hip-Hop Brew? So I guess Cristal is out, and Armand de Brignac is in. Following a public "brewhaha" when Frederic Rouzaud, the managing director of Louis Roderer Cristal, dissed hip-hopper's like Jay-Z 's predilection for his tasty bubbly, Jay Z's 40/40 Club decided to no longer serve Cristal to their customers. Jay-Z also said he wouldn't partake in Cristal in his personal life either. Now Jay-Z , the self-proclaimed h-to-the-izzo, or "Jehovah" of rap, has come out of retirement in his new "Show Me What You Got" video, which features a striking gold bottle of more sparkling stuff. I must admit, the bottle of Armand de Brignac Champagne is striking. " Gold Bottles of that Ace of Spades ," the rapper calls it. No doubt plenty of other poseurs will be doing some mad Googling to get their hands on a beautiful bottle to pour on some sad half-naked girls in th...

TMZ is reporting that Melanie Brown , better known as Scary Spice , the only black member of the hugely successful '90s girl band, the Spice Girls, is four months pregnant with Eddie Murphy 's child. Continue reading, please... Tags: eddie murphy scary spice eddie murphy baby scary spice pregnant spice girl pregnant eddie murphy spice girl eddie spice girl scary baby scary spice eddie murphy spice girl eddie murphy melanie brown pregnant scary spice baby eddie murphy pregnant spice girl baby eddie spice girl murphy+spice+baby

I guess the lesson here is to "render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s," heh? Where's Wesley? I have my own personal brush with Wesley Snipes' production company story. Back in the late 1990s, I self-published a lewd and lascivious novel. My lofty fantasies of fame approached reality when I came home one day and replayed a message from a woman who worked closely with Wesley Snipes at Amen-Ra Films , Snipes' production company. Continue reading... Tags: wesley snipes wesley snipes tax wesley snipes tax evasion wesley snipes tax fraud wesley snipes prison wesley snipes arrest wesley snipes arrested wesley snipes IRS wesley snipes wife wesly snipes wesly snipes tax wesly snipes tax evasion wesly snipes tax fraud wesly snipes prison wesly snipes arrest wesly snipes arrested wesly snipes IRS wesly snipes wife wesly snipes taxes wesly snipes tax cheat wesly snipes production wesly snipes wesley snipes amen ra amen ra amen ra films wesly snipes film co wesly ...

In this photo Jennifer Toof , better known to Flavor of Love Season 2 viewers as Toastee , looks like a cherubic angel. In other naked pics setting the net abuzz along with a weird adult video wherein Toastee turns a man's face purple by clasping his head between her athletically strong thighs, Toastee brings to mind a girl exemplified in City High's "What Would You Do" lyrics... Read the article... Tags: flavor of love flavor flav flavor of love 2 girls flavor of love 2 girls pics toastee toastee pics toastee video toastee porn video toastee pix toasteee pics flavor flav pics toastee nude pics toastee naked toastee porn toastee porno toastee nude flavor of love 2 girls pics toastee jennifer+toof+pics toasteee video toasteee porn video toasteee pix toasteeee pics toastee kicked toasteee nude pics toasteee naked flavor girl flavor flav toastee flavor 2 girl flava pics toasty toasty pics toasty video toasty porn video toasty pix toasty pics flavor flav pics toasty n...

Stripper Reveals New Information About the Night of Alleged Rape by Duke University Lacrosse Team Members. During my freshman year of college I became friends with a girl I’ll call Lolita, a thin and wiry girl with a shock of puffy hair that stood about her head like a dome of dark cotton candy. One day Lolita came to the campus pool where I frolicked with other friends, but stood outside the chain-link fence. Walking closer, I saw tears and redness in her eyes. I noticed that one of the shoulder straps of her white cotton jumper was undone. As Lolita and I sat on silver bleachers, she told me she had just come from the dorm room of her football-star boyfriend, a guy I’ll call Gary. Trailing off into ever-increasing sobs, Lolita left space for me to ask the most pivotal question I’ve perhaps ever asked anyone: "Did he rape you?" Click here to read the article... Tags: duke university rape duke university rape 60 minutes duke rape 60 minutes kim roberts interview duke rape str...