• Do you know what happens to your electronics after you recycle them?

• The world just gets hotter and hotter — not in the Paris Hilton sense of the word.

• Bill Clinton warns Americans that obesity will cause our nation’s collapse.

• But a little extra meat on the bones never hurt anyone.

• Blacks and Hispanics after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s than whites. For once.

Gotcha! This isn’t really an open letter to “the haters.” I’m not even sure who “the haters” are, although there are certain people out there who like to refer to this nebulous group of vengeful people whenever possible. These individuals find themselves so important and controversial that they believe there is a troupe of dissenters out there whose mission is to willfully detest their every move. I hate to say it, but if you’re not Beyonce or Hillary Clinton or LeBron James or someone of similar notoriety, this is almost surely not the case.

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• In real life, Carrie Bradshaw’s not exactly Mr. Big’s type, know what I’m sayin’? [MG]

• Robin Roberts goes G.I. Jane on GMA to be an inspiration to other women undergoing chemotherapy. [CL]

• Just say no to camel toads. [TAN]

• Donda West is eulogized. Dr. Jan Adams is sought by the authorities. [MTV]

• Congressman Keith Ellison calls voter photo ID requirements a modern-day poll tax. [IHT]

50 Cent on how rappers are held to different standards than fallen pop stars:

“I guess they have their rules that apply individually to each artist separately: ‘Oh no, he can’t say that, ’cause he feels like that about that person,’ ” he said. “But it’s not a rule that applies to everybody else. Matter of fact, my next single, I’m going to start it [with], ‘It’s Britney, bitch!’ “

While some people might feel a certain way about the way Eve’s paw-print tattoos look when she’s in formal wear, I actually think that she pulls them off. It’s like a trademark.

It should be said that it’s not the sort of thing a non-rapper/sort-of-actress can make work as successfully. More pics from the 7th on Sale Black-Tie Gala, where Eve showed off her class and sass, after the jump.

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Thousands of protesters flooded DC today, and, led by (who else?) Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, marched to the Justice Department, where circled the building “seven times in a gesture reminiscent of the biblical Joshua’s procession around the walled city of Jericho.” Okay.

Well, the marchers are marching to protest the Justice Department’s lax response to “hate crimes and hate signs” that are popping up all over, most notably since the Jena Six story hit the mainstream.

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I know there are thousands of people who are fond of Barry Bonds. And millions more are fond of baseball. I am not one of those people. So when I heard the news that Bonds had been indicted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, I was kind of like, “eh.”

If Marion Jones had her medals taken away for taking steroids, it seems unfair for Barry Bonds (and others, yes, I know) to get away with both taking steroids and lying about it and being really obnoxious and surly. The latter two aren’t criminal offenses, I just thought I’d add them. So. I guess there goes Barry’s career? I wish he had gotten arrested so I could make some sort of “Barry’s out on Bond” joke, but, as it is, I’ve got nothing. These baseball posts kill me.[ESPN]

I wonder if that “pretend I’m Beyonce” line has been successful for Tyra in the past.

I can think of $millions$ of reasons why it’s good to be Will Smith, Barack Obama, Tiger Woods*, and Denzel Washington. Low on the list is that they have all graced the cover of Men’s Vogue in 2007. While I’m sure it’s sort of “whatever” to them, it’s kind of a big deal in the fashion mag industry, where covers featuring black celebs are few and far between. Take Men’s Vogue’s female predecessor, Vogue, for instance: Jennifer Hudson’s March cover was only the third in the magazine’s history to feature a black female celebrity. And there was not a single black model in the October issue’s fashion spread. Incidentally, the same went for Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Glamour and Cosmopolitan.

I suppose it’s not entirely accurate to say that black people aren’t “en Vogue.” Just those unfashionable black women. [Portfolio]

*Cablinasians need love, too.

A murder case in Northern California has local civil rights activists crying racism. A 22-year-old black man will go on trial for a murder that everyone, including law enforcement, knows he didn’t commit. Renato Hughes was charged under a rarely-used legal doctrine called the California Provocative Act, which allows a person to be charged for murder if it can be proven that their illegal actions caused a series of events that would lead to bloodshed.

According to police, Hughes and two of his friends broke into the rural NoCal home of (white) Shannon Edmonds, where they demanded marijuana and beat the man’s stepson, who is now brain damaged, with a baseball bat. Edmonds shot the two friends in the back while Hughes got away. Hughes, whose mother said he went to the house to buy weed, not break in, .

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