by John Ridley
At the risk of sounding like that old guy in Gran Torino telling those "young punks" to "get off my lawn," it's gotten to the point that whenever I hear somebody talking about Twitter or twittering or tweetin
by John Ridley
I've made it to Prague, and let me just say it's a beautiful city. Particularly if you happen to be into old world Europe, 'cause there's a lot of that going on here. The weather's been beautiful, and that only adds to the charm.
by John Ridley
I've never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that's where Ferraris are from. That's about it.
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by John Ridley
The thing about working in Hollywood is that at some point you really get tired of hearing how godless you are, and how if you and the rest of the heathens in Tinseltown would put more God-centric shows on TV, people wouldn't be abandoning prime t...
by John Ridley
When you read the headline it's one of those what-the-heck moments: John McCain has co-sponsored a Senate resolution asking President Obama to posthumously pa
by John Ridley
The meme going around like a bad cough is that President Obama relies "too much" on teleprompters. A line so oft repeated it's officially reache
by John Ridley
You probably can't tell, considering all the focus on President Obama's Tonight Show appearance, and also with the likes of Eric Holder, Michael Steele and Richard
by John Ridley
This weekend's 67 percent drop in box office receipts sealed Watchmen's fate as a disappointment of a film. But the conversations at Tinseltown lunches we
by John Ridley
I did not know this, or I certainly would have made a bigger deal out of it, but this past Sunday was International Women's Day.
by John Ridley
If you said Kabbalah, you spend too much time reading People magazine. If you said Muslim, you've probably read The Gallup Center for Mus
by John Ridley
OK, maybe you want to equivocate on the New York Post's racist editorial cartoon conflating a runaway chimp with President Obama's stimulus bill. But there's no equivocating on this one: Dean Grose, mayor of Los Alamitos, Calif., sent out an
by John Ridley
Freshly minted Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele gave an interview with the Washington Times in which he detailed his plans for makin
by John Ridley
So it's February. That means school kids across America are learning that George Washington Carver didn't actually invent the peanut, and a black man did invent the stoplight. And while the kids are learning, February by February, grown-ups
by John Ridley
It's pretty safe to say that it's nearly impossible to make the transition from some other political slot to the presidency without hitting some speed bumps. Recollection of the gaffes, the flameouts, the regrettable nominations, could make for a ...
by John Ridley
Republicans can be a funny bunch. They're against affirmative action, but they always seem to be able to find people of color to fill a slot just when they're most needed.
