I haven’t spent much time on the blogs lately, and so I missed a ton of the hot fire the good folks at Pandagon have been spitting for the last few days. First, there is Amanda Marcotte’s great post on the huge discrepancy between the U.S. media’s reaction to Michael Phelp’s marijuana use, and the recent revelation that Mexico Read More
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I have a few distinct reactions to this: 1) This is why I don’t watch television news. TWO minutes of a 22-minute broadcast devoted to this. They do a 2-minute run down of the headlines. Then let’s say another six minutes devoted to weather. Sports, two minutes. 2) Aside from her nonchalance about the domestic Read More
I went looking this morning after I heard that TMZ had gotten a post-altercation photo of Rihanna from someone in the LAPD. From the beginning, in dissecting this case, the debate I had was often over the term “visible injuries.” My closest friend was skeptical, saying ‘women fight dirty and we don’t know what happened…she Read More
I went looking this morning after I heard that TMZ had gotten a post-altercation photo of Rihanna from someone in the LAPD. From the beginning, in dissecting this case, the debate I had was often over the term “visible injuries.” My closest friend was skeptical, saying ‘women fight dirty and we don’t know what happened…she Read More
This is the scariest thing I’ve seen/heard in a very —very — long time: The terrifying part comes at about the 1:50 mark. (cross-posted from U.S. of J.)
Crossposted from slb’s site: I have so much to say about church since I stopped going regularly. Usually, I find myself grappling to adequately articulate it all. There’s a delicate balance between criticism and cruelty, especially when discussing “The Church,” an institution that doesn’t exactly welcome criticism of its practices. In church, I was indirectly Read More
[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.785904&w=425&h=350&fv=] Jay is spot on, as usual. He also makes a point that seems really Intro to Philosophy but always gets abandoned in conversations about racism/sexism/homophobia: intent and consequences can be unrelated. (Indeed, our criminal justice system is based on this idea.) Hell, I’d even argue that intentional bigotry motivated by animus isn’t close Read More
I wanted to lighten the mood a little bit, and open up the floor to talk about personal experiences with naked, unvarnished racism. (Like Chappelle said, shit you can’t even be mad at because you’re so stunned.) Fun stuff, right? I’ll go first. I was maybe 12 or 13, in my church’s sacristy. I was Read More
