Kobe Bryant, Jason Kidd, Dwayne Wade, LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Tayshaun Prince, Carlos Boozer, Chris Bosh, Chris Paul, Dwight Howard, Michael Redd, Deron Williams.

Those would be the names of your coming US Olympic basketball team. Oddly absent would be a single Celtic, which will surely cause outrage on the East Coast. But let’s hope this bunch can right the US tradition of gold, as nothing else is deemed acceptable.

Just when you thought Vice was mixing it up by hiding a BMW ad on the front cover, VOGUE steps into the ring with this:

I initially thought, “What’s the big deal? It’s LeBron and Gisele, two celebs fitter than fiddles. ‘Cept Gisele’s dress is kinda lame.” But then I read what the more critical eyes saw: “Others, however, see it as the embodiment of racial and sexual stereotypes, that it’s a depiction of an aggressive, black man in a King Kong-like pose, embracing a white woman, a Fay Wray-like ‘damsel in distress.’” Source

Oh. I guess I can see that now, too. But riddle me this: is it better to see the racial connotations and object, or to not see them at all?