October 2011
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I am really enjoying Up All Night →
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After immigration ruling at Foley school with... →
ziatroyano:
FOLEY, Alabama — Many of the 223 Hispanic students at Foley Elementary came to school Thursday crying and afraid, said Principal Bill Lawrence.
Nineteen of them withdrew, and another 39 were absent, Lawrence said, the day after a federal judge upheld much of Alabama’s strict new immigration law, which authorizes law enforcement to detain people suspected of not being U.S. citizens...
September 2011
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Some Advice For Young Grads →
That said, it might be a good day to repost this?
(I think “who’s more oppressed” wars just end up reinforcing the problematic American attitude of ‘we’re all middle class!’ when really honestly we are all pretty much fucked right now, but at the same time, cheer up about it already!)
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Punk rock ist nicht tot
My main interest in gender stuff right now is in the ways traditional images of gender persist but in an altered form, and the effects of that transformation. We’re all figuring out how to be (OK, “perform,” but I’m trying to keep this user-friendly) the gender we are in the aftermath of the all-sortsa social transformations wrought by feminism. Obviously we’re not at...
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Here is a post written by the editor of Thought... →
It is called “Ten Reasons Why I Think Your Band Sucks” and here is reason #8, all [sic]:
There’s so much reverb happening! Don;t get me wrong, I love me some fuzzed out goodness but this takes it one step too far. I can’t even understand what you’re saying and I’m pretty sure that if you stripped away all of the effects, we would have a Jennifer Lopez situation going on.
The editor...
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Congress in the Archives: Guest Blog: What's a... →
This is neat if you are a research / archives / social history nerd.
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I felt like i gave birth to a ghost. →
This is amazing.
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Supercommittee operating in secret →
This is very encouraging! It’s a great sign that the supercommittee members aren’t talking, since it means they might actually be committed to resolving the issue via honest deliberation with their peers (well, their peers plus Pat Toomey). The worst possible thing you can do with budgetary policy is to grandstand it, so maybe we’ll get some good revenue increases and entitlement...
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“As Cervantes realized in the context of the newly born mass culture of the...”
– William Egginton, “‘Quixote,’ Colbert and the Reality of Fiction” (via langer)
Some day I will figure out how to write sensibly about Colbert, but this is very good.
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Republicans To Keep Threatening Shutdown Until... →
From March, this is now pretty much happening. Maybe the GOP is trying to normalize shutdown threats in the way the filibuster has been normalized? Thus it will no longer be seen in the way it was back in February - as an unusual event with possibly catastrophic consequences - but as an expected negotiating tactic that never has to actually happen to be effective, making cliff-edge budgetary...
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zachbaron:
Wrote a piece about “Nevermind,” generational change, demographics, the anniversaries we choose to celebrate, and the ones we don’t.
Billy Ray Cyrus content!
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“Asked if she knew that a documentary about her husband would invariably require...”
– ‘George Harrison - Living in the Material World’
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This Is For Emphasis, Bitch! - Television Tropes &... →
It’s basically ending a sentence with a comma and “Bitch!”, as a way of someone verbally making an exclamation point in dialog.
It did get overused, so now it’s a Discredited Trope. You’re as likely as not to see it thrown in a sentence just to be funny, even though there is no other reason to emphasize a point this way.
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“Perry appeared very cheerful during most of the debate — he has a way of cocking...”
– Gail Collins!
(The rest of the column, about how depressing it is that Romney is probably going to be the nominee, is very good too.)
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Melissa Lafsky’s piece on the Straw Dogs remake is great, and her point about the way masculinity is portrayed in movies is dead-on:
And that’s the real point we can take from the remake; that decades after feminism entered the cultural mainstream, after we’ve slogged through all these social and gender reconfigurations, the Act of Being Male still stirs up the same shitstorm it always...
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How Dan Harmon Drives Himself Crazy Making... →
This is just a fantastic article. There are a lot of great bits (especially about Abed, near the end) but this was my fav:
Harmon, for all the abject misery he feels when he’s making the episodes, savors the show just as much. Community is a series by, for, and about people for whom pop culture is both a near-divine presence and a lens through which to view the world. When a character compares...
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“The troubled American relationship with Pakistan prompted head-scratching...”
– I find it extraordinarily heartening that we’re not talking about Rick Santorum very much, but just FYI, he thinks Musharraf is still the president of Pakistan.
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Social media to curb 'rumors' in China - CNN.com →
standardgrey:
“Any mention of Ai Weiwei, including “AWW”, “the fat guy”, and even the phrase “love the future,” which sounds like his name in Mandarin, is blocked.”
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“Needless to say,the journalists who supplied national news in this period had no...”
– Herbert Gans in the preface to the 25th anniversary edition of Deciding What’s News, his mid-70s study of the CBS Evening News, the NBC Nightly News, Newsweek and Time.
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jeanthesecond replied to your photo: A reminder to myself.
that is probably best. i’m interested now though, even if i might hate you for it a bit
Well, I mean, I’ve seen a few people here write about how disorienting it is as longtime opponents of the death penalty to see people suddenly latch onto this case when these sort of things happen all the time, which I guess was what I was...
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Michele Bachmann: Live from the meat locker →
I know Mohney did a photoshop of this earlier, but I just cannot get over Bachmann’s plan here:
Bachmann will hold a business roundtable from the meat locker of Amends Packing Co. in Des Moines. The small business slaughters, cuts, wraps and freezes exclusively Iowa meat.
She’ll speak from the cutting room (and probably cut some meat), but in the next room are several rows of beef sides,...
