Rihanna Poses for GQ Cover

Your favorite "Good Girl Gone Bad" Rihanna is determined to have the No. 1 album over Chris Brown, even if she's getting help. That is all. #justsayin


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'Civil Rights Suits': Coming Back?

The term, "Civil Rights suit" was once just a quick one-liner that comedians threw out to mean someone had an old suit on. But the term quickly stuck with no abiquity: People old and young knew exactly what you meant when you said 'so-and-so rocked a civil rights suit.' Know we see the latest GQ with none other than NBA manchild LeBron James rockin' what? A civil rights suit. Are they coming back? Me thinks so.

GQ "Darkens" Obama on Cover

Whoa.
Is that Barack Obama on the cover of the new GQ, or is it ... Bryant Gumbel? The Photoshop wizards over at GQ should have learned a lesson about artificially "darkening" people from the O.J. Simpson fiasco in the 1990s. To compound matters, this goes on top of the Beyonce "lightening" scandal earlier this year. Black people come in sooo many different hues, one can understand if due to lighting and such the images are off a little bit, but Obama is waaay more chocolate than he truly is in the GQ cover. Message to art director: Add a litte more vanilla, less mocha. Or perhaps they should stay away from the airbrush tool after all, or don't stop at Starbucks before heading into the office. Either way Obama's true complexion is fairer than most. Why is this so difficult? To be fair, this has happened to white men as well, most recently ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit earlier this autumn (which he demanded be redone). But seriously, we're not mad at GQ; they've got it right countless times before. Just remember, ease up on the airbrush.