• 22%of black men married outside their race in ’08

• 1:60the ratio of black man/white woman marriages to all others in 2008
• 1:1000the ratio of marriages like that when Obama’s parents married

• » Why this is becoming an issue: Simply put, black women in the U.S. are finding it harder to marry within their race. The new study released Friday by the Pew Research Center finds that fewer black women are married as a result of a gradual decline in the number of black men to marry. Prof. Steven Ruggles, director of the Minnesota Population Center, explains: “When you add in the prison population, it pretty well explains the extraordinarily low marriage rates of black women.”  Other races are also more willing to look beyond their heritage to marry. Half of all Asians in the U.S., for example, don’t marry another Asian. source

• We could have had the answers in the first couple of days down there had they done their job right. And this should have never happened what’s happened in Peru.
• Natalee Holloway’s stepfather, “Jug” Twitty • Discussing the recent arrest of Joran van der Sloot, a former suspect in Holloway’s disappearance in Aruba in 2005. Twitty feels that political connections (van der Sloot was the son of a prominent judge in Aruba) allowed him to go free, which led to the recent death of Stephany Flores in Peru. The U.S. recently charged van der Sloot with extortion related to the Holloway case. source

• $500,000 amount she spends daily

The result all that money creates

• 51% the tally the former eBay chairman has going into the GOP primary
• 25% the tally her challenger, Steve Poizner, has in the poll
• 24%haven’t made up their minds or plan to go for a minor candidate source

• 411,000 the number of added May jobs that came from the Census alone (i.e. most of them)
• 9.7% the current jobless rate; expect that to go back up when the Census goes away source

• Remember the hype around the Microsoft Courier’s awesome dual-screen format? Well, what if you made it bigger. Not just bigger, comically large? Like you were carrying around the Ten Commandments with you everywhere? Then you’d have the Kno, which has a pretty cool interface despite its insanely huge 14.1-inch dual screens and $1000 price tag. Cut both by about half and you seriously could knock out the college bookstore mafia. (In other news, what the heck is going on in this uber-disturbing press photo?) source

• yes The robots successfully got the pipe capped off, after many trying days and one stuck diamond saw.
• but Unfortunately, it may not be enough to stop the spill, even temporarily. It’s too soon to tell. souce

• This Dude wants to license journalists in Michigan. Michigan State Sen. Bruce Patterson submitted a bill to do just this, saying that with the rise of blogs and other varied content sources, the standards for journalism were lowering. “I thought you had to have a degree in journalism but apparently not,” Patterson said recently. “I could retire and be a journalist.” Or you could retire and give free mustache rides, something you’d actually be good at.Take your pick. source

• To those who say Conan isn’t funny and never has been, we submit this clip, where he engages in a dance-off with Stephen Colbert (and later, Jon Stewart). Full of win.