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Actually, the show is called Love & Hip Hop—premiering March 14—and none of the women are actually married to rappers but are in various stages of unofficial commitment and divorce. Some of the women featured on the show are Emily Bustamante, Fabolous' stylist/baby mama, Mashonda, ex-wife of Swizz Beatz (now married to Alicia Keys), and Chrissy Lampkin, longtime girlfriend of Jim Jones. In fact, Jim Jones is the only male rapper to appear on the show and from the looks of the trailer, he—and his mom, who is so reminiscent of Frankie Lons, with a near identical scratchy voice—know how to make good reality TV. More »
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It's official! Barack Obama has designated Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State and Janet Napolitano as his Secretary of Homeland Security. In addition to those women, Susan Rice will become our Ambassador to the UN, Eric Holder is headed to the Department of Justice, Robert Gates will stay at the Defense Department and Jim Jones will be his National Security Adviser. The Secretary of Rainbows And Unicorns has yet to be announced. [CNN] More »
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• The word is, again, that Hillary Clinton has been offered and will accept the Secretary of State job. It might not happen until after Thanksgiving, officially, though, because Obama announced he's rolling out the economic team first on Monday. [NY Times]
• Some people are a little concerned about who else she might bring to Foggy Bottom, though. [Washington Independent]
• On that economic team roll-out Monday, the top dog appears to be Timothy Geithner, the current president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who it's said will be our next Treasury Secretary. [The Hill]
• He might well be sharing the stage with Bill Richardson, who everyone is saying will be the next Commerce Secretary. Interesting note: if he is, he'll be the second Latino in a row to hold the position, like Clinton would be the second woman in a row at State. [CNN]

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Strange NY Times story on the courthouse behavior of celebrities. Inside, these tidbits: rapper Jim Jones once put a kaffiyeh over his head and pretended to be Yiddish when someone asked if he was famous outside of a courthouse; Foxy Brown uses her post-perp walks as excuses to show off her glamorous designer duds. And Courtney Love, no stranger to court appearances, jokes with reporters as if she's walking the red carpet at a B-list event. Which, we suppose, in some way, she is. [NYT] More »
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