Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Feb 9, 2012, 11:32 am
In this latest round of Not Helping, Cornel West decided to celebrate Black History Month by kicking a few other black people in the teeth in his continued quixotic quest do what ... I'm not too sure. Keep it real? West gave an interview to Diverse Magazine where he defended his oddly personal p...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Feb 9, 2012, 9:21 am
First Lady Michelle Obama participates in a tug of war with Jimmy Fallon in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House during a “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” taping for the second anniversary of the "Let’s Move!" initiative, Jan. 25, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)If...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Feb 9, 2012, 8:08 am
Live by the tweet. Die by the tweet.Nothing is private on the Internet. Except sometimes it's easy to get a false security of it. Like you share photos with your Facebook friends or friends on Twitter. Maybe only your closest friends actually comment or care. But maybe you have more than just your ...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Feb 8, 2012, 8:50 am
Adding to the bizarreness of an already bizarre GOP race for a presidential nominee, Rick Santorum won three non-binding Republican contests in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado. No one gets any delegates. (Missouri's contest was a "beauty pageant" the other 76 ethereal delegates up for grabs between...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Feb 6, 2012, 1:38 pm
Pulpy book of reality and literary fiction, "Game Change" is getting a film adaptation of HBO. But rather than focusing on the history-making drama that was the Obama and Clinton campaigns for the Democratic ticket OR the high drama that was John and Elizabeth Edwards' -- her cancer and his cheating...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Feb 6, 2012, 12:15 pm
In things that make you go "Wait? What now?" gay and lesbian activist organization GLAAD is calling for CNN to fire Apha Phi Alpha member and ascot-aficionado Roland Martin due to some insensitive tweets he made on his very well-retweeted Twitter page. As we all know, Twitter is a constant causa...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Feb 6, 2012, 8:57 am
M.I.A. is my favorite radically hardcore, international hipster masquerading as a ruthless Southeast Asian revolutionary married to a billionaire heir trust fund baby rapper ever. EVER. And her filing her nails while riding on a car tilted on two wheels is by far the most bad assed looking thing I'v...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Feb 6, 2012, 8:36 am
Howdy all! Snob here. Things are a-going in Snob World. And all the things are good, making me insanely busy. I took on a new writing project this winter that I'm hoping to finish up this week, but that's the main reason for the lack of posting, along with a new focus on my physical health, new soci...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Feb 6, 2012, 8:19 am
The Snob returned to PBS' To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe last Friday, discussing the fiasco that was Komen Foundation's defunding then refunding of Planned Parenthood as politics once again worked its way into women's health issues. Also discussed: a new documentary looking at sexual assault in th...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 31, 2012, 2:52 pm
Why are you doing this to me, man?* Why are you doing this to yourself? Mitt Romney won't stop singing/ruining "America, the Beautiful," one of the best and most beloved songs from the Great American Songbook. I think he thinks singing it constantly looks patriotic rather than pandering and pathet...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 31, 2012, 9:26 am
Today's the day of the Florida Republican Primary! (Although early voting has been going on for a bit and more than half-a-million votes were cast before today.) Although its still (technically) a four-man race, Rick Santorum is tending to a sick daughter and Ron Paul is focusing on greener primary ...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 27, 2012, 9:14 am
Can you see past a weakness so hard that it turns into a strength? Presidential wannabe Newt Gingrich tried to pull that off in an interview with CBN's David Brody where Gingrich tried to spin his "past weaknesses" as making him more "human" than everyone's favorite Republican Robot, Mitt Romney. F...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 27, 2012, 9:09 am
In today's post for BP Magazine's Bipolar Blog I talk about how remembering the needs of others, even when going through my worst bouts of mania and depression, helped me stay anchored to reality and not the world of negativity in my head. I wrote: "(W)hen my Bipolar Disorder became dramatically wor...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 26, 2012, 5:53 pm
During the 2008 campaign we were inundated in any and everything Barack Obama. From dolls (both cute and scary) to music (both good and Black Eye Peas bad), to tacky velvet paintings of Obama, MLK and Malcolm X while Jesus looks on them from Civil Rights Heaven. While Obama-mania is unlikely to str...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 26, 2012, 2:12 pm
There's another GOP debate tonight! Batter the hatches!  They thought he was dead. They thought they killed him in Iowa. They thought wrong. Newt Gingrich is back, baby! And like the awful B-Movie he is, he's out for revenge. At first it was just about teaching that damn Mittens a lesson, but th...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 26, 2012, 11:40 am
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's finger found her way into President Obama's face Wednesday when he stopped in the great state of sunning seniors and low allergens to do "presidential stuff." But another day, another indignity from people who act like it's the hardest thing ever to respect the office even ...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 26, 2012, 11:03 am
President Barack Obama hugs Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., on the floor of the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., before delivering the State of the Union address, Jan. 24, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows President Barac...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 26, 2012, 10:43 am
For Clutch Magazine this week I tackle the complicated path the third wife of Newt Gingrich must walk. Last week, Gingrich's second wife spoke to ABC News about how she got dealt dirty by former Speaker of the House... just like his first wife. And the story of Gingrich's past loves is a series of...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 25, 2012, 1:41 pm
On Wednesday, The Snob returned to the Beauty Shop segment of NPR's "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin.  We talked about President Obama's State of the Union address, the GOP response (Ugh, Herman Cain ...), The Washington Post's recent survey on Black American women, and the end of Victoria's Secre...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 24, 2012, 12:24 pm
President Barack Obama talks with Jon Favreau, Director of Speechwriting, in the Oval Office, Jan. 23, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) State of the Union is tonight! It's time for the president to tell us what's what! (And to unofficially kick off his 2012 re-election by reminding ...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 24, 2012, 9:50 am
Newt Gingrich. Did you know that he's an awful old curr who gets run out of Congress by his own party, took a whole lot of money to become an ... ahem ... "influence peddler" and is probably eye-balling wife No. 4 somewhere in the crowd? What? You already knew that? Hmmm. What if Mitt Romney shouts ...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 19, 2012, 1:06 pm
Jane Velez-MitchellThe Snob will be on Headline News at 7:30 p.m. EST tonight talking about the many loves of Sir Newton Leroy Gingrich. Are those loves controversial and will voters care about this latest ex-wife "open marriage" bombshell? Find out when I chat it up with Jane Velez-Mitchell on HLN ...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 19, 2012, 10:37 am
Rick Perry (Click to Enlarge)Rick Perry, in his effort to be your man in Washington, has finally realized it's time to pick up his Buzz Lightyear and Woody cowboy dolls and threats against our NATO allies and go home to Austin. I imagine there will be a lot of grimacing and pouting, but the dude had...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 17, 2012, 12:57 pm
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama dance together during the Governors Ball in the East Room of the White House, Feb. 21, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)Get it, gurl. Go, Michelle. It's your birthday.
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 17, 2012, 8:00 am
... easier and quicker to diagnose than the myriad of problems that could make it hard for a woman to get pregnant. The result is that for every Fertile Myrtle there, pushing out kids in defiance of a looming menopause, there are a lot of folks weighing fertility treatments versus surrogacy ver...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 16, 2012, 1:02 pm
What I love about this is that if I didn't know this was an elaborate stunt to point out how ridiculous our campaign financing laws are put together by comedians Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart there's a good chance I'd think this was a for-really real ad. It's no less hysterical that what's passing...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 16, 2012, 12:30 pm
Jon Hunstman, the Republican president candidate who could never shake that "Obama hired me to be Ambassador to China," moderate conservative stink off himself, dropped out of the GOP race today. Huntsman, naturally, endorsed the man who he most resembled without all the complications of being a hor...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 16, 2012, 11:44 am
The legacy of slain civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. is always in flux. This summer he was immortalized as the first African American and non-president to get a monument on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The statue (which is a lot more impressive in person than in photographs), was al...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 13, 2012, 3:04 pm
For Clutch Magazine Online, The Snob penned a piece on how the move to natural hair has opened up a whole new bag of anxieties for many women who were already anxiety prone when it comes to black hair and what it symbolizes. How can you separate your politics from your hair when human nature is all ...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 13, 2012, 12:04 pm
In today's post for BP Magazine's Bipolar Blog, I write about my past battles with insomnia and how I came to realize I needed to take not sleeping seriously when it came to self-care: "Not being able to sleep was usually an indicator that something had gone terribly wrong, because while the high of...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Jan 12, 2012, 10:09 am
Pushing back against what the White House has described as an over-dramatized portrayal in New York Times reporter Judi Kantor's new book "The Obamas," the First Lady told the CBS This Morning many have wrongly tried to paint her as an "Angry Black Woman." In the book (which I'm patiently waiting t...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Dec 15, 2011, 11:04 am
... TV reporters tossing up their papers in frustration! News anchors being forced ... the candidate in more as we get closer to the end…It’s been a good, ... number of supporters in Ames at 1,350 — is a sight to ... president as did," despite his success in Iowa. "Iowa Republicans' paroch...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Dec 15, 2011, 9:56 am
Pew recently released a study announcing that the United States married population has dropped considerably since the 1960s! Today, of people 18 years old and up, only 51 percent are married. But in 1960, that number was more like 72 percent. While I'm sure (very sure) some folks will use this to cl...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Dec 14, 2011, 11:27 am
... ' dunderheaded obviousness caused a flurry of collective eye rolls across the ... you're essentially the responsibility of some adult until you turn ... words sounded pretty. "Dreams deferred" by the poverty of circumstance happens ... when she had the benefit of fame and money, how can ... ...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Dec 13, 2011, 12:11 pm
... , like, nine hundred-and-ninty-nine movies this summer! But it's going to take more than recasting this political romance to get the Romney fires -- that were never burning that hot in America to begin with -- flaming again. ... if he did and I didn't know it does that mean I'm out of touch?...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Dec 12, 2011, 1:07 pm
Guess who's all up in your Essence Magazine this month? Yours truly! The January edition of Essence is out and I'm featured in it, talking about how I survived the recession (and, consequently, Bipolar Disorder). I'm featured in their story "The Interruption of Everything" featuring first-person acc...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Dec 12, 2011, 12:09 pm
... were that I met. In the end, only good things can come from ... at The Bakersfield Californian, Tim and Anne Bragg and their adorable son Vincent. And that I got to ... occasional expositions on Black Conservatives became the "things" I was known for and ... I survived both Bipolar Disorder...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Nov 16, 2011, 12:30 pm
Howdy all! Blogging from beautiful Studio City, Los Angeles, California, The Snob has left her home base in Washington, D.C. to go out on a work assignment in the city where it hardly ever rains. This week is rather hectic, so I'll be blogging sporadically. Hopefully by the time I work out a regular...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Nov 15, 2011, 10:06 am
Libya! Did Barack Obama have enough "intelligence" on the issue? You know? With all that diplomacy and CIA intelligence gathering and talking to generals and NATO allies and putting together a strategy that lead to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi getting all kinds of dead. But what would a BUSINESS M...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Nov 11, 2011, 11:11 am
From Texas Beyond History: "The Redoubtable Sergeant" by artist Don Stivers depicts Sergeant Emanuel Stance (second from left) and troopers of the 9th U.S. Cavalry—part of the famed Buffalo Soldiers—at the Battle of Kickapoo Springs against Apache Indians north of Fort McKavett in 1870. It was o...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Nov 11, 2011, 10:01 am
I spent most of this week avoiding reading and writing about what was going on at Penn State because all I could likely add to the conversation would be a long string of curse words. A tale of how no one likes to be proven right about the more disgusting side of the human condition. The truth that s...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Nov 2, 2011, 12:48 pm
... , Citizens United!) It made the Mormon Ned Flanders sound less like the Mormon Ned Flanders and a lot more like Phillip Seymour Hoffman's super villain from Mission Impossible III. Man, Hoffman was brutal in that movie. You know how in some movies the bad guy is so charming you kind of root f...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Nov 2, 2011, 12:02 pm
Writing! It's how I make my livins! Over the past week-and-a-half Clutch Magazine online began running several posts by yours truly about modern lady life, starting with a humorous piece that asks "Is Your Marriage Too Big to Fail?" -- the answer to the question of why people stay in unhappy marria...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Nov 2, 2011, 11:47 am
The Snob returned to NPR's "Tell Me More" Tuesday to chit chat about President Obama's student loan pay down plan, Kim Kardashian's "soap opera" love life, the gender complexities of modern love and marriage, and how the "scarcity model" (re: EVERYBODY MARRIAGE PANIC!) affects women views of relatio...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Nov 1, 2011, 10:17 am
Herman Cain spent all of Halloween Monday rearranging the deck chairs on his unsinkable disaster presidential campaign after Politico ran a story on Cain being accused of sexual harassment during his tenure with the National Restaurant Association. It started with him first responding to the allega...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Oct 28, 2011, 9:23 am
... out for its egging on of the OWS-ers coast to ... mention a favorite touchstone figure of postmodern Liberal media columnists, Father ... organizations should protest the disappearance of black, brown, and others from ... this. The alleged "thought-leaders" of media today -- whatever the d...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Oct 27, 2011, 10:31 am
Danger! Danger in the campaigns! After nearly all of her New Hampshire primary campaign staff quit, Michele Bachmann became the ONLY Republican running for president who filed her papers for the NH primary via Pony Express, aka "the mail." But she's not the only GOPer lacking staff these days. Godf...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Oct 26, 2011, 8:36 pm
Wednesday I made another stop at Michel Martin's "Beauty Shop" on her show Tell Me More on NPR! Along with The Root's Cynthia Gordy, US World News & Report's Mary Kate Cary and The Wise Latina's Viviana Hurtado we discussed Rick Perry's "bright idea" to bring back former presidential candidate and ...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Oct 26, 2011, 2:49 pm
Click to enlarge. Yesterday the pundit class was a-chatter over Herman Cain's quixotic YouTube ad featuring his smoking man chief-of-staff, and comics Stephen Colbert and Conan O'Brien responded with their dual parodies. But my favorite thing about how easy it is to squeeze a giggle out of Cain com...
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Danielle B. posted an article on The Black Snob - Oct 26, 2011, 10:14 am
Topics today: Rick Perry's new "Flat Tax" fetish; the African American response to the "Slutwalk" anti-street harassment campaign; and Mariah Carey's "trust" issues. I'll be on with three awesome women I've been on the show with before and/or know in-real-life, Cynthia Gordy who blogs on politics f...
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