BlogHer's Maria Niles has a terrific wrap-up of Jazz Singer Rene Marie's decision to sing the black national anthem at Denver's mayoral state of the city speech yesterday, including a YouTube clip of the performance and the fact that presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama has now been asked to comment on the jazz singer's decision. It's a great conversation - join us! Photo credit: Alaboutjazz.com

What do you think of this? From The New York Times: Google Told to Turn Over User Data of YouTube, By Miguel Helft

Last night at my 'hood's annual block party, one of my neighbors pulled up a lawn chair and started lighting firecrackers and handing them to kids. Some kids threw them on the ground next to their own feet. Others threw them on the neighbors' lawns. Then I said in a lady-like tone, "THAT IS AMAZINGLY STUPID AND SOMEONE IS GOING TO GET HURT. BUT NOT US," and stomped home, family in tow.

"I think the right word to use in a situation like this is "dominant," writes BlogHer Sports CE Sarah who knows a little something about tennis. "Tomorrow will mark the third time the sisters will be meeting each other at the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Final. Then a couple of hours later they will be playing as a team in the Ladies' Doubles Finals."

The parents of a 14-year-old quadraplegic say they have NO scientific evidence that HPV vaccine Gardasil caused their daughter's neurological disorder, nor do they want to turn her into "a poster child for any of the many anti-Gardasil campaigns." Instead, they're blogging to try to find other cases like hers to save her life -- girls with pre-existing conditions that may have made them susceptible to a catastrophic reaction to the HPV vaccine.