WTF is up with this week? No mercy at all.
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01/02/2012 — 2 hours ago
dropbox of ideas
Take a look. Learn Things. Keep Reading. Be Happy. Get at me if you please.
It’s been said many times, but I find that I always need to be reminded that it is impossible to satisfy everybody.
So, do you and do your best. The rest will take care of itself.
Cheers.
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01/02/2012 — 3 hours ago
That’s the way cultural change works in America: the rest of us discard a prejudice that the right still clings to; in the fullness of time, the right comes around too, deploying clever rationalizations to forget they ever bore the prejudice in the first place. (Take their treatment of Martin Luther King – they went from initially blaming him for his own death, to, by the 1990s, lionizing him as a conservative role model – as an example.) Then they move on to some new existential terror, and the cycle repeats itself. Not so long ago, a black man marrying a blond woman was a lynching offense among American reactionaries; now we have a black man, a reactionary himself, married to a blond woman, on the Supreme Court. I like to imagine, as a thought experiment, the day, perhaps not too far off, when a Republican president nominates a Supreme Court Justice married to someone of the same sex, maybe even with the sanction of “orthodox” theology – with that gay Supreme Court justice casting the deciding vote that finally overturns Roe vs. Wade. It could happen. When the siren song of cobelligerency beckons, theological qualms tend to fall away. That’s the way it’s always been.
.redeye: So a friend lost her Graduate Assistantship because she corrected the Teaching Assisant (another graduate student) who... »
The friend is Tewa, has worked extensively across the country with many different Native Museums, Nations and Artists. She was the one who curated the education exhibit at the Heard Museum, has personal ties to different communities including Hopi, and considers multiple artists (like Rebecca…
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RΔW ΔDDICT: Soft: New vs. Old. »
Here’s the comparison between the old generation of “soft” rappers versus the new generation of “soft” rappers. Whenever you head a song from Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, The Roots and etc. it was a given that they weren’t “gangsta” rappers. One other thing that you did know though…
Drug cartel death threats force police in Mexico’s most violent city into hiding
Some 2,000 police are hunkering down in hotels in Mexico’s most violent city of Ciudad Juarez after a drug gang threatened to kill an officer per day if their chief refused to resign.
Eleven police officers, including four commanders, have already been killed in the city across from El Paso, Texas, since the start of the year.
The city’s mayor this week ordered police to use several local hotels as temporary barracks to protect themselves from attacks on the way home from work in the city at the heart of Mexican drug violence that has left 50,000 dead in five years. (Photo: Jesus Alcazar/AFP/Getty Images)
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Say by Olivia Broadfield (Mr. Kwazi's Raw Emotion ReFIX)
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Insane Spelling Bee Contestant
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27/01/2012 — 5 days ago
I’m lacking the presence of honest-to-God musicians.
Just watching the Will Sessions vids proved that to me.
I miss being around that.
I need it in-person. People who love music - people who love to actually listen to it and create it.
I need that.
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25/01/2012 — 1 week ago
Enough people need to not exist.
South Africa racism row breaks out on Twitter »
MPC2000 - Damu remakes K-Def’s “Mad Props” instrumental
People of Color Organize: Derail of the Day: “It Only Has Power If You Give It Power!” »
When someone uses a slur and a person from the marginalized group that the slur disparages calls that shit out, there are is a common reaction that piss me the fuck off and is downright abusive in how it twists why the call out is happening and how it should go down.
- “Well, it’s up…
Shoppers riot at Beijing Apple store over delayed iPhones
Enraged Chinese shoppers pelted Apple Inc.’s flagship Beijing store with eggs and shoving matches broke out with police on Friday when customers were told the store would not begin sales of the iPhone4S as scheduled.
Apple said later after the fracas at its store in Beijing’s trendy Sanlitun district that it would halt all retail sales of the latest iPhone in China for the time being, but said the phones would be available online, through its partner China Unicom or at official Apple resellers.
An announcer with a bullhorn told the Sanlitun store crowd around 7 a.m., before sunrise, that the phones would not go on sale as planned and that they should leave. As the crowd became more unruly, scuffles broke out between security staff and shoppers, many of whom had waited overnight in freezing weather. Police moved in and dragged some people away. Photos appeared on the Chinese blogosphere of a man who had brought raw eggs in a plastic bag, handing them out before people heaved them at the store’s tall glass windows.
“We’re suffering from cold and hunger,” a man in his 20s shouted to Reuters Television. “They said they’re not going to sell to us. Why? Why?” (Photo: Feng Li/Getty Images)
Crying because you can’t give your money away, son?
