Passion Pain & Pleasure couldn’t have come at a better time. Few R&B albums have been released within the last weeks and our ears were yearning to be moistened with a soft tongue (pun intended).

The House campaign of Democrat Rick Waugh says an African American couple in Louisa, Virginia, found a plastic sign in their yard defaced last night. I'm no expert in handwriting, but it looks to me like whoever did this came very, very close to spelling their racist graffiti wrong. Anyone else think the second "G" seems like it came this close to being another "E"?

Elias Abuelazam, the man suspected of being a serial killer has a Texas connection. Police say Elias Abuelazam terrorized people in three states during a string of random stabbings. But Abuelazam's ex-father-in-law, Jim Hirth of Crowley, Texas is surprised at what he's learning of his daughter's former husband.

It seems as though things are moving backwards instead of forwards in this country. First blacks, now latinos...I thought it was 2010 not 1910.