A column on the Psychology Today website earlier today caused a justified wave of Freud rage™ by asking “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?”

The post, which featured “research” of uncertain methodology by evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa, drew immediate condemnation, and the magazine has since deleted the article. A reprint of the article is still up at Something Awful.

Here’s a fresh angle on the Charlie Sheen saga: according to Natalie Hopkinson at The Root, Sheen’s “a new celebrity crackhead on the scene, and some folks can barely contain their glee.” Quoting a series of influential–and, yes, funny–black comics and stars like Floyd Mayweather, Tichina Arnold and Elon James White, Hopkinson concludes “it’s as if all of black Twitter and Facebook strained its collective neck to watch this 50-car pileup that is Charlie Sheen explode all over the mass media.”

Amid the football and hangovers of New Year’s Day comes a bit of television history: the launch of Oprah Winfrey’s brand new network, OWN, which began operations today.

Writing on The Root, Jennifer Mabry sums up her feelings about the Oprah Winfrey Network in one word: “disappointed.”

File under things you can’t make up. The Root, the online magazine aimed at a black audience launched by the Washington Post, posted a slideshow the other day featuring 33 of “the blackest white people we know.” Number two on the list — it’s unclear whether people have been listed in order — is none other than Glenn Beck.

Kweli was in You don’t mess with these hip-hop dudes. Melbourne Saturday doing a show with Jean Grae. The next day, trouble. But not for the forces of justice, thanks to Twitter, Facebook, and an innate respect for OPP.

Last week, Mediaite asked you who was the top online editor of 2009. This time around, we’re recognizing sites which are too vast and ambitious in scope to describe in terms of the work of just one editor. You know the drill, loyal, smart, and attractive readers: below is a list of our nominees for the top site of 2009, including The Business Insider, Ars Technica, and Talking Points Memo. Vote for your favorite, or leave any deserving candidates you think we left out in the comments:

Henry Louis Gates Jr., renowned Harvard professor and frequent Oprah Winfrey guest, was arrested at his home early yesterday morning under charges of disorderly conduct. Or at least that’s the version of the story that first hit the AP. The version that’s since come to light is vastly different. Get ready, this is one of those stories that once the cablers pick up could likely dominate the airwaves for the rest of the week, if not longer.

In a nod to Sally Struthers, the folks at Slate V have crafted a tongue-in-cheek commercial imploring viewers to sponsor poor newspaper journalists at “Buy One Anyway”