... a great "playback singer." The voice behind (lipsynching) actors of Bollywood's golden era - roughly the 1950s thru the '70s.

Kishore Kumar, another great playback singer, was a natural with songs like this one; somewhere w/in him lurked a crazy little kid itching to get out (and often succeeding!), and his songs are infused with the oomph that is Asha Bhosle's stock-in-trade.

Rafi, and Lata Mangeshkar, excelled at the classic romantic song. Go to www.raaga.com, search for "Ehsaan Tera Hoga Mujh Par" - Hindi - Song - Exact ... and give the first two songs a listen. Great, huh?

Ah, good times.

The video is a hoot. With the obligatory Random Whitey(s) and everything ;-).

That was lovely. Thanks.

Inspired, I tell ya.

... straight, single men considered switching teams.

Please, please, please tell me the single women in our fair city are better than this banal bunch.

So she's still making the rounds of the yak shows, eh? Sheesh. I recall watching her on some episodes of Politically Incorrect, years ago, and thinking - Pity the man who's saddled with this broad for a lifetime.

Even the wing-nuts turned on her over something or other, a few months back. But I don't remember the details, and I couldn't be bothered to find out now.

This is going to be my inner conversation from now on:

"Your body is like Yo-Yo Ma's cello."

"Awesome!"

Thanks for a h-i-l-a-r-i-o-u-s video, Kerry.

... duller than dishwater.

So much for the "those gays are so fucking flamboyant" stereotype.

Middle America, rest assured that homosexuals can be as boring as some of you!

I like Ed Helms more than some of other TDS regulars, but for a segment set in San Francisco I thought this was very blah.

... has talent. Great impressions.

(Maybe I'm too easily amused by the Joe Pescis of the world?:-)

I thought Dickerson acquitted herself very well last night - she looked great, explained her point more than adequately, and was good-humored enough to be the butt of Colbert's barbs.

That is way more than I can say about some of the angry people here.

Please read carefully. And, if you disagree with her view of the world, say so - and move on! When I see folk tearing Dickerson down with a passion, I figure she's touched a really raw nerve.

Juniper,

Why don't you come visit the so-called liberal mecca (and Salon's hometown) San Francisco? I guarantee you this: You will run into your fair share of white people who'll proclaim their love of Obama in one breath, and in the next breath say something like "But the country (read: red states) isn't ready for a black president." This is usually followed by aren't-we-in-San Francisco-so-special looks all around.

If that isn't a self-congratulatory pat on the back, I don't know what is. Were I a smart black woman like Dickerson, I'd be itching to slap some sense into these folk too. Rock-solid logic and fool-proof case be damned.

Hyphenation is irrelevant when you belong to the majority - white, here - because everyone of every color perceives you as, simply, white. But someone who physically appears Asian, and is considered an Asian by whites, is more than merely Asian to an Asian-American. Differences abound among people of every minority group - which should be obvious to any thinking person, but rarely is to many/most whites - and while there isn't a pissing contest over who's "better," minorities are certainly intimately aware of these differences and wish everyone else would be too.

Given this country's sorry history with slavery, blacks aren't just another minority. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss someone like Dickerson, flawed though some of her argumentation may be, as a color-conscious writer who bellyaches about whites for a living.

She came off well y'day because she took the right tack: treating the back-and-forth as debate lite with a fake blowhard. Can we quit regarding this as an genuine intellectual debate? Thank you.

"Only the Colbert half of the debate was fake."

Before we run around trumpeting the man's satirical genius and proclaiming his victory, I'd like people to note at least in passing that this was not a real debate with real people bouncing real ideas off each other. It's the rare guest who can top a nimble performer like Colbert in this kind of faux q & a ... but it can be done! Go watch Tom Schaller's appearance, and see how his quick and clever retorts knock Colbert off balance.

"By the way, you don't get to set the conditions for how people post in this forum. Go be a control freak elsewhere."

I couldn't care less if you use this forum to wank off about anything on your mind. I'm just saying I won't engage you in conversation if you pretend this was a real debate.