April 2010
22 posts
Cosmic Navel Lint: "Imagine if the Tea Party Was... →
“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 color instead. The object of the...
“…It’s the drivers of cars who have illegals in it that are...”
– John McCain on why the Arizona immigration law is necessary
via REALITYCHEX.COM
Whatta guy.
Color-blind racial ideology linked to racism, both... →
waifsworld:
robot-heart-politics:
According to Tynes, a color-blind racial attitude is the prevailing racial ideology of the post-Civil Rights era, and is the view that seeing race is inherently wrong.
“If you subscribe to a color-blind racial ideology, you don’t think that race or racism exists, or that it should exist,” Tynes said. “You are more likely to think that people who talk about...
“No, tea baggers believe stupid shit because they want to. It’s willful...”
– pandagon.net (via greaterthanlapsed) (via savagemike)
Teabaggers are willfully ignorant.
(via stfuconservatives) (via nachty)
Cook-book misprint costs Australian publishers... →
“An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed ‘salt and freshly ground black people’ instead of black pepper. Penguin Group Australia had to reprint 7,000 copies of Pasta Bible last week, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.”
Oops!!
To Be Alive
To be alive: not just the carcass
But the spark.
That’s crudely put, but…
If we’re not supposed to dance,
Why all this music?
—Gregory Orr
Upcoming E-Waste Recycling Dates →
Hey, New Yorkers — the fabulous Lower East Side Ecology Center is doing e-waste recycling a few times over the next couple of weeks. If you have old computers, TiVos, etc., bring ‘em to be recycled. It’s easy, and the Earth will thank you.
brooklyn mutt: Murdoch Stumped! →
Watch here Fox News’ head honcho Rupert Murdoch stumble and mumble as he can’t name a single Democrat who works for his “Fair and Balanced” “news” network. He had earlier claimed that MSNBC and CNN lean left while employing Democrats and his network hires people from both sides. Thus the…
“I’m not filling out this [census] form. I dare them to try and come throw me in...”
– Erick Erickson of CNN (via Realitychex)
::facepalm::
WatchObama on healthcare polls. Is it any wonder I love this guy?
“Conservatives frequently choose to believe versions of events that aren’t real,...”
– Steve Benen, They’ll Reject Our History & Replace It With Their Own, The Washington Monthly (via smart-tart)
“Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to...”
– Eloi Cole: Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he’s from the future (via datn)
Kit Kats for everyone? Communist chocolate hellhole? Sign me up!