I found an interesting post about 'Ebonics' and linguistics, on Dean's World, via Anil Dash:

"The world is full of non-standard languages. French, German, English, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and every other major language has related variants which are looked down upon by the dominant culture as "stupid" or "ungrammatical" or "illiterate." But if they are carefully studied it usually comes to be found that they are not stupid or ungrammatical, they simply follow a set of rules different from the dominant tongue."

In a related vein, check out Languagehat, if you're at all interested in linguistics.

I'm too tired to explain why Yoko Ono is important in music history right now, for my friend Wes. So, I'll do it later. I'll just say I find it sad that the woman is so reviled, when really, all she really is, is a widow.