Archives for: August 2010
08/31/10
Quote of the Day
Tim Wise has a very interesting point to make about last weekend's Glenn Beck rally, and the famous Martin Luther King quote: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their… more »
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Christian Science Monitor: Entire US-Mexico border to be guarded by Predator drones
County Fair: Huffington Post highlights difference between left and right blogosphere
Denver Post: Bedbugs back, hit U.S. households with a vengeance
New York T… more »
If you ever got arrested now since infinity
The Washington Times reports that "California lawmakers OK 'Chelsea's Law'":
A group of bills related to child abduction and sex offenders, including one that would incarcerate the most violent sex offenders for life without parole and provide hars… more »
New Left Media
"Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" Rally - Interviews With Participants."
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08/30/10
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Glenn Greenwald: Anti-mosque sentiment rages far from Ground Zero
Glenn Greenwald: Howard Kurtz and the WashPost's contempt for its readers
Tim Wise: Farce on Washington: Glenn Beck and the Assault on Historical Memory
Wall Street Journal: Whit… more »
Not Schadenfreude
Glenn Beck's inane "Restoring Honor" rally got just 87,000 people to show up, despite all the pimping FOX News has done over the last few weeks.
It's not schadenfreude that makes me glad he failed to reach the 100,000 he predicted he'd get, but a rea… more »
08/29/10
The least among us
I have no idea why so many people take prison rape to be a joke:
An estimated 4.4% of prison inmates and 3.1% of jail inmates reported experiencing one or more incidents of sexual victimization by another inmate or facility staff in the past 12… more »
08/28/10
Drug Warz
George Will writes about the problems he sees besetting the black community in "For black children, daunting divides in achievement and family life":
Writing in the American Interest, [Nathan] Glazer, a sociology professor emeritus at Harvard, cons… more »
08/27/10
Grown folks is talkin'
"TIME Announces New Version Of Magazine Aimed At Adults." more »
Quote of the Day
[John] Eastman wants to drastically expand the power of the American Government and subject U.S. citizens to sprawling, unaccountable surveillance, all because he’s petrified of a handful of extremists hiding in caves who cause fewer deaths to Americans… more »
08/26/10
08/25/10
For those who hold you back and mislead you
Thomas Sowell fear mongers over health care in "Medical Care Facts and Fables":
. . . the media spin is that various countries with government-run medical systems have life expectancies that are as long as ours, or longer. That is very clever… more »
08/24/10
The Sneak Attack
"Media Matters to run ad on Fox News touting News Corp's $1 million donation to GOP."
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Not bad. By shooting straight they get free publicity when FOX rejects the ad. more »
Don't try to come and creep through my hood
The Washington D.C. Tea Party guide to avoiding black neighborhoods? more »
08/23/10
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Adam Serwer: The "Blood" On Wikileaks Hands
Chicago Tribune: Credit card rates hit highest level in 9 years
Daily Tech: Something About Malware: Cameron Diaz Most Likely to Get You Infected
Raw Story: Black Republicans: Palin ‘no longer fit to… more »
True Blood
I was going to link to the NewsBusters post complaining about a scene in True Blood where they thought one character rapes another (when in actuality, the woman involved was willing, rather than raped - these guys can't get anything right), but I ended… more »
08/22/10
She was quick with the Bic just to get that autograph
"Blagojevich pulls in $50 an autograph at Comic Con."
Seriously, don't people have better things to do with their time? more »
08/21/10
Internet Thugs Attack
There Internet is boring me today, so I'll share some nutball right wing YouTube videos without further comment:
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08/20/10
And how many courts of the law can you sue me in?
"Might as well face it, you’re addicted to a MMORG."
The only thing that keeps me from dismissing this as a nuisance lawsuit is that MMORPGs almost exclusively use what's known as a "variable ratio schedule" (VRS), which research shows is the most ad… more »
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