Hey Folks!  It's that time...AGAIN!  Check out Afronerd Radio tonight at 7pm eastern.  The "brain" food being served on the menu this evening is: the U.S. financial rating has been downgraded to a AA rating for the first time in history; the block is hot in Philly-miscreants shoot upon innocents on a public bus; (a leftover from a previous show)-Precious author, "Sapphire" has a new book entitled, The Kid and it's lower tier exploitation at its best (or is that its worst);  Dburt reviews Rise of the Planet of The Apes and by extension how works of fiction grow closer to reality than we'd like to believe and folks in DC ask-Does gentrification always have to be perceived as a bad word? Oh and another leftover from last week-Howard Stern Show's Robin Quivers had problems with the historical plausibility of Captain America: First Avenger. Stop by and join in on the discourse!