• Eighty-three percent of minority elected officials want the U.S. out of Iraq, which is 29 percentage points more than the public at large. [USAT]

• "It is time for 50 Cent to be a man of his word, and retire," Mark Dice, spokesman for The Resistance, explained. "The world will be a better place when this Satanic piece of filth retires and stops making music." And what more is there to say? [SOHH]

• A black columnist at the Indianapolis Star was fired for writing a column about the black city council president called "Coons for Power." [RP]

• Minority female associates are not feeling the law firm gig. [Law]

• Jay-Z plans to tie Elvis Presley for most #1 albums, but he's got to get through lukewarm reviews and Chris Brown's teenyboppers first. [AHH]