July 2010
68 posts
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“If it collapses, we’re going to have the worst oil spill in history on our...”
– Aquaman - 2004
““There are no atheists in foxholes” - Uncertain
“There are...”
Tim Wise - "Black Power's Gonna Get You Sucka:... →
stfuracists:
Prominent white conservatives are angry about racism.
Forget all that talk about a post-racial society. They know better than to believe in such a thing, and they’re hopping mad.
What is it that woke them up finally, after all these years of denial, during which they insisted that racism was a thing of the past?
Was it the research indicating that job applicants with white...
“Michael Lewis’s The Big Short is considered the definitive history of the...”
– Ezra Klein, on one of the under-reported aspects of the financial meltdown. For a fantastic account of this whole ugly business, see Daniel Brook’s really nice “Usury Country” in Harpers. (via newsweek)
Fourteen examples of systemic racism in the U.S.... →
tart-tart:
One. The US has seen a surge in arrests and putting people in jail over the last four decades. Most of the reason is the war on drugs. Yet whites and blacks engage in drug offenses, possession and sales, at roughly comparable rates – according to a report on race and drug enforcement published by Human Rights Watch in May 2008. While African Americans comprise 13% of the US...
“Reagan won that election by promising — with a wink and a smile — to finally let...”
– How Ronald Reagan Killed Edith Bunker (via azspot) (via think4yourself)
WikiLeaks May Have Just Changed the Media, Too →
soupsoup:
While the impact of the documents and newspaper reportage on the war in Afghanistan will take a while to suss out, the publication of these documents will be seen as a milestone in the new news ecosystem. Unlike the Pentagon Papers situation, we’re “watching the traces of a major story unfold in real time,” said C.W. Anderson, who studies media culture at CUNY. “If you’re a PhD...
Nick of Time
Does the Tea Party “Refudiate” Racism?
These past few weeks, the “Tea Baggers” have been trying to rebrand themselves from the second coming of the KKK to the “hey, you have us misunderstood, we are not racists” folks. More notably, they tried to demonstrate that when the “National Tea Party” expelled the “Tea Party Express” because of an inflammatory blog post by its leader Mark...
49 Followers!!!
Who will be my 50th?
PALESTINIAN JAILED FOR RAPE AFTER CLAIMING HE WAS... →
I bet he said “how would you like it if I declared a Jihad on you baby”
ABC NEWS - Videotaping of Cops Gets You Arrested →
AMAZON - E-Books outsold hard covers.... →
I can’t tell you how this device has changed my reading experience for the better. As a commuter, to have the NY Times, periodicals, and books all in sliver case is super convenient. The fact that it also saves highlighted passages for easy reference is a must when you are as argumentative as I am. Some may prefer the “warmer” experience of having a book in hand, but this...
What if the Tea Party was black? →
tennroof:
ihatethismess:
mohandasgandhi:
Let’s play a game, shall we? The name of the game is called “Imagine.” The way it’s played is simple: we’ll envision recent happenings in the news, but then change them up a bit. Instead of envisioning white people as the main actors in the scenes we’ll conjure - the ones who are driving the action - we’ll envision black folks or other people of...
Reuters - Fears grow as millions lose jobless... →
Nazi Women... Europe's answer to the women on the...
Women’s Role in Holocaust May Exceed Old Notions
By ISABEL KERSHNER
JERUSALEM — Amid the horrors of the Holocaust, the atrocities perpetrated by a few brutal women have always stood out, like aberrations of nature.
There were notorious camp guards like Ilse Koch and Irma Grese. And lesser known killers like Erna Petri, the wife of an SS officer and a mother who was convicted of shooting to...
“Ronald Reagan said that his tax cuts would reduce deficits, then presided over a...”
– Paul Krugman (via azspot) (via think4yourself) (via bolagoodness)
this
If black people start to make rock music.
reservoirpuppy:
juthikalala:
newfilosofee:
meghaniswhite:
I swear I’ll never listen to music again. It would ruin it. You can’t have a good ass guitar and drum beat behind a black guy singing about alcohol, weed, and bitches. It just can’t happen. Rock music needs to be left to white people. Seriously.
Actually, they have so you can stop listening to music now.
Also Rock Music have...
“The growing divide and tension between the Obama administration and the business...”
– Obama’s Anti-Business Policies Are Our Economic Katrina - US News and World Report
What absolute bullshit. “What businessmen do when they’re free to conduct business” is lie, steal, loot, pillage, and blame it on you. The recession we’re in was entirely caused by the people who are now afraid Obama...
well said
tennroof:
We had no choice. If you’ve got an epidemic going on, you’ve got to treat the people who caused the epidemic as well as the people treating it or everyone is going to die. The public hates it, but it happens to have been a pretty damn good deal for the taxpayers. When all is said and done, that will not have cost the American people nearly as much as we feared. The cost will be...
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“Minutemen groups, a surge in Border Patrol agents and a tough new immigration...”
– Neo-Nazis Patrolling the Arizona Dessert
NYTimes
It’s funny how Obama was compared to Hitler while the Nazi party continue to be the ones to support the “Tea Baggers”.
(via brooklynmutt)
“Well, holy sh*t. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled today...”
– FCC | FCC Ruling | Profanity | Mediaite
Shit. The word you’re looking for is shit, as in “This is the motherfucking shit.”
(via nickdouglas)
I wish Carlin was around to see this.
(via soupsoup)
“It’s hard to read libertarians without concluding that they’ve never been out of...”
– What’s wrong with libertarianism (via azspot) (via think4yourself) (via bolagoodness)
Bill Maher Watching Mel Gibson in "What Women...
QUESTION FOR ALL...
Is anyone alse recieiving “pop-up” ads from Google that say “Stop Obama Care”? If so how can I stop this?
Nick of Time – “The Ongoing Bull-Shit of 9/11”
On Tuesday night a New York City community board listened to the hundreds of people imploring them to recognize a 150+ year old building in New York’s “financial district” that was once an unheralded clothing store, and some sort of pharmacy as a New York City landmark. Why? So the owners of the building don’t tear it down to build a community center which will also include Mosque which just...
