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About Me


"If you have the motivation, resources, and skills to compete, you're a player; otherwise, you're scenery"
-Ron Burt
Brooklyn kid getting a PhD in the Midwest. Currently, life is pretty mundane so online communities provide a nice distraction from dissertation...
I'm studying Organizational Behavior. It's a mix of economics, strategy and sociology. I spend most of my time reading anything I can get my hands on and writing writing writing...
I'm a big hip-hop head. I listen to other stuff, but that is my bread and butter. Current rotation: "Paper Trail" T.I., "The Recession" Young Jeezy and "Mood Muzik 3" Joe Budden
Politically, I'm a black libertarian. Technically speaking, Libertarians believe the answer to America's political problems is the same commitment to freedom that earned America its greatness: a free-market economy and the abundance and prosperity it brings; a dedication to civil liberties and personal freedom that marks this country above all others; and a foreign policy of non-intervention, peace, and free trade as prescribed by America's founders. -- I interpret that as the freedom to work hard and be prosperous (equal opportunity for education and skills training), the freedom to do what you want in your own house as long as it doesn't impinge on other's people liberties, and the refusal of the government to constantly intervene with other countries issues (lets make sure we take care of our own issues first)....

My Blog

Hip Hop Year in Review 2007

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, "Huh. It works. It makes sense." -Barack Obama A black presid...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:48:00 GMT

god wanted me to write something....(pardon the typos - i’m in a rush)

people been hitting me up to write a blog and i have been like "ehh, i have not been as inspired lately".  then on the day that i come home to visit my momma a tornado hits brooklyn...a TORNADO h...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:43:00 GMT

Hip Hop Year in review 2006

Poot: "It's a cold world, Bodie,"Bodie: "Thought you said it was getting warmer,"Poot: "The world goin' one way, people another,"- The Wire Episode 47  "There's nothing fair about who live...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:13:00 GMT

communication is the key to any and all relationships..

Here is something that bothers me about marriage (or any other kind of serious romantic relationship) - you have to talk so damn much.  i like to think that as a relationships between two people ...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:53:00 GMT

marathon recap

I ran my first marathon this sunday here is the recap:Got to downtown Chicago around 6:45am.  It was cold, wet, and cold.  I shivered as the gun sounded.  I started off slow and enjoy...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:32:00 GMT

how long before Google becomes Microsoft?

it's funny how fast things change so that they can remain the same.  at one point there was a definite grassroots internet social networking revolution.  between facebook and myspace we were...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:43:00 GMT

facebook has gone all frankenstein on zuckerburg

I don't know how many people are Facebook users (I am), but they added this new feature on there that lets you see all the actions by all your friends in one condensed list.  It's kinda cool and ...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:23:00 GMT

a man is dead and yet i can't help but feel conflicted

Steve Irwin, "The Crocodile Hunter " was killed today when the barb from a Stingray hit him in the chest and pierced his heart: http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/blog/2006/09/remembering_st e.html From ...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:24:00 GMT

best commerical out right now...

if you haven't seen the latest Snickers commerical you are missing out on pure comedy.  it's my favorite kind: retarded and melodic, kinda like DangerDoom (have people peeped the remixed EP it's ...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:34:00 GMT

east coast rap

Got a recent e-mail from a friend of mine about the state of east coast rap.  he was disturbed.  he said he liked Rick Ross and T.I.'s songs, but didn't understand why they were dominating t...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 01:55:00 GMT