The theme for Old School Friday is "Men With Perms." Mike had a curl then, but a perm now. This one goes out to Michael Jackson in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Thriller. This is a trip down memory land for many of us. Make sure to check out these other great Old School Friday posts: Electronic Village - Chatting Over Cocktails - Ms Grapevine - Quick - Marcus LANGFORD - Cassandra - Danielle-Lisa C -Chocl8t - DP - Kreative Talk -MarvalusOne ...

Is anyone surprised? As reported by the New York Times, "Three detectives were found not guilty Friday morning on all charges in the shooting death of Sean Bell, who died in a hail of 50 police bullets outside a club in Jamaica, Queens." Hours before his wedding this young life was taken. And apparently it was nobody's fault.

Everyone is pulling at the racial heart strings of America, except for the black candidate. Obama can't bring up race -because his race is a negative in the eyes of American voters- but Hillary Clinton is now playing to females, because it's a positive. Positive because females make up 54% of the population and 55% of registered voters. McCain made an odd trip to Selma last week, but his stroll down the streets of the lower 9th ward in New Orleans brings his strategy into focus. McCain called the government's response to Hurricane Katrina "a perfect storm" of mismanagement at the federal, state and local levels. "Never again, never again, will a disaster of this nature be handled in the disgraceful way it was handled," McCain said.  McCain is after black voters. While Hillary Clinton and her campaign continue to demonize Jeremiah Wright, Fmr. President Clinton stokes the racial flames in his own right. "No. I think that they (the Obama campaign) played the race card on me. And we now know, from memos from the campaign and everything, that they planned to do it all along," Clinton told a Philadelphia radio station. I think black ...