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Bill Cosby sparked controversy recently when he told black parents "your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day, it's cursing and calling each other [the N-word] as they're walking up and down the street. They think they're hip. They can't read. They can't write. They're laughing and giggling, and they're going nowhere." Also, Martha martyr or martinet? Should political advertising include references to Hitler? And your calls on wacky weddings.
Mad About Martha
Elaine Lafferty Editor in Chief, Ms. Magazine discusses the sentencing of Martha Stewart
Feel the Camp-Pain
Meredith McGehee President of the Alliance for Better Campaigns, a non-profit promoting "useful information" in elections says the Hitler-themed political ads on the left and the right represents a new low in negative campaigning
The Cosby Show
Debra Dickerson journalist and author, The End of Blackness (Pantheon Books, 2004) An American Story (Pantheon Books 2000) agrees with Bill Cosby's controversial comments and Christopher John Farley Senior Editor, Time Magazine disagrees with Cosby's remarks
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