Critics trying to take the ‘ho' out of hip-hop

In the wake of radio host Don Imus' firing for comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team, critics are moving down the radio dial to take on hip-hop. Pointing out that the rapper Mims uses “ho” and worse epithets in his chart-topping song “This Is Why I'm Hot,” one critic asked: “What kind of relief do we get from this deadening, coarsening, dehumanizing barrage from young, black rappers and their music-industry enablers?”

The 210 take: As if things weren't already hard out there for a pimp.

San Antonio gets all cultural ’n’ stuff

The $12 million Museo Alameda del Smithsonian opened with much fanfare. Its mission is to tell the story of the Latino experience through the eyes of Latinos and focuses more on “blending” experience of immigrants. The 40,000-square-foot museum is expected to attract 400,000 visitors a year and have a multimillion-dollar impact on the local economy.

The 210 take: Yeah, sure, but do they have a lifelike Sandra Bullock replica like the Plaza Wax Museum?

News alert: Teens like sex, pledge cards void

Students who took part in sexual abstinence-until-marriage programs were just as likely to have sex as those who didn't and first had sex at about the same age as other students — 14.9 years. The results are from a study ordered by Congress looking at the $176 million spent annually on abstinence education.

The 210 take: In hopes of a guaranteed success, the government has shifted focus to a nerdy until-marriage program and is issuing Dungeons &Ö Dragons games to all 14.8-year-olds.

Babies cry out for a TV station of their own

A new 24-hour channel aimed at babies may soon be hitting more local televisions. BabyFirstTV is in talks with area cable companies to carry the channel. The average age at which kids start to watch TV is about 9 months, compared with 4 years in the 1960s.

The 210 take: A channel that caters to infantile minds that just sit there drooling and staring at the TV until they get hungry or soil themselves? FoxNews, watch out.

World Bank chief fixed lover’s spending cash

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz was fighting to keep his job after it was revealed that he personally dictated the terms under which the bank gave his girlfriend more than $60,000 a year in raises and promotions in exchange for temporarily leaving her job there during his tenure as bank chief.

The 210 take: Who knew that the World Bank president could be the ultimate sugar daddy?

From staff and wire reports