by R.A.B. Air America falls silent, and so my friend and former boss and fellow badass Megan Carpentier is back in the market for a writing gig. The year so far, for me at least, has been all about unemployment and liberal setbacks; this particular collision of both has shaken some talented, good people. I’ve Read More
Phillybeard.com presents: The Sunni Beard from Chikodi Chima on Vimeo. This started catching on back when I was in school, although obviously back then few of us could really pull it off. (Freeway probably has the most famous Philly beard of all times. ALL TIMES!)
The musical Cats first debuted in London on the 11th of May, 1981. It ran, according to Wikipedia, for 18 years in the United States (from 1982 until 2000) and has been translated into over 20 languages. Though it officially closed in 2000, it still pops up randomly like a huge, heaving zit that you Read More
Larry Wilmore informs us, as if we didn’t already know: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The First 364 Days 23 Hours www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis But somehow, I still think a lot of people – including an increasing number of progressives – Read More
(crossposted) Via Think Progress (by way of Kay Steiger) is the most comically racist thing I’ve seen in a long time: A new professional basketball league boasting rosters made up exclusively of white Americans has its eyes set on Augusta, but the team isn’t receiving a warm welcome. The All-American Basketball Alliance announced in a Read More
From Colorlines: New Orleans city police and the district attorney’s office are using a state law written for child molesters to charge hundreds of sex workers like Tabitha as sex offenders. The law, which dates back to 1805, makes it a crime against nature to engage in “unnatural copulation”—a term New Orleans cops and the Read More
By R.A.B. Over at Education Week’s LeaderTalk blog, former school superintendent Dennis Richards asks, “Should high school students take college courses?” Richards revisits a 2008 study by the Community College Research Center, where Karen Hughes and Melinda Karp asked, “Why would we take students who are not necessarily prepared for college, put them in a Read More
Fresh from the “WTF?!” Files: Taco Bell has a diet menu? Not to be left behind by other fast food chains plugging more healthy options, Taco Bell has bumped up the marketing of their “Fresco” menu items, dubbing it the “Drive -Thru Diet”. Their spokesperson Christine Dougherty claims to have lost 54 pounds over the Read More
But I’ll leave it to PhillyGrrrl at Sepia Mutiny who writes: Words like “fetishism” and “objectification” came to mind as soon as I saw it. The chorus, “Girl do that Indian dance/Dance for me now/Dance for me now” is nauseating enough, but “Ma got hair like Pocahotantas/Hands on the ass of an Indian goddess” induce Read More
Scott Brown is doing his part to bring sexy back to the Senate: Because John Thune can’t hold it down all by his lonesome. A special, holiday-delayed edition of the roundup follows: 1. It’s zero hour in Massachusetts. Martha Coakley, once the prohibitive favorite to win the special election to fill Ted Kennedy‘s Senate seat Read More
