I've been working overtime of late doing some academic research and writing that I hope will soon see the light of day, as well as doing my best to stay afloat in the ever expanding blogosphere.  Two of my recent contributions to The Huffington Post have focused on our food crisis or what I call a "subprime food industry."  Our volatile housing market and rising fuel costs in our cars are not the only things we need to be worried about.  As the recent protests in Egypt, Haiti and India rising food costs are also legitimate concerns.  The second article is a more recent one from this Friday and it addresses the verdict in the Sean Bell murder trial.  Here I present my thoughts on the discomforting relationship that exists between Sean Bell and Barack Obama because of the overwhelming media coverage that these two Black men have received for very different reasons.  Here's an excerpt:

I have also recently contributed to the Applied Research Center's Daily Blog Racewire.  My first post was on Tuesday's Democratic Primary in Pennsylvania.  Entitled "Still A Big Man's Game" it explores the role of party officials such as Pennsylvania's Governor Ed Rendell in keeping Hillary Clinton's campaign afloat.  It's surprising that with all the calls asking Howard Dean, John Edwards or Al Gore to intervene and advise Clinton to bow out of the race, there's very little discussion about the diehard Clinton supporters in the upper echelons of the Democratic party who have been ensuring Clinton's victories in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania. 

 Last but not least, The Night Shift Chronicles is still running.  We are still in the process of upgrading the layout and adding more content on a regular basis.  Slowly but surely it's taking to it's new incarnation. 

 Ok, I'll stop here for now.