* * I’m so scared! There’s no escaping stale film references! It’s a cairn, dumbass. * * A good turnaround point.* * “Ah, when are they going to plug that up already?”
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Bill’s Bleeding Heart Show
Does Bill Maher think Matt Drudge is making up stories about black malice? No. He condemns Drudge’s editorial focus, not his veracity. Drudge pays undue attention to negative black behavior. Who decides what constitutes undue attention? Bill Maher says Bill Maher decides. But we already knew that. Bill wants you to know Matt Drudge is a racist. Bill missesContinue reading “Bill’s Bleeding Heart Show”
Hate in the USA
Black folk on the Walker recall defeat.Note how the site (Twitchy, which compiles political tweets from a Fox News-like “conservative” angle) sells this compendium as “angry libs” going off. Our furtive fascination with black American violence: the critique that dare not speak its name.
Not a Nation of Immigrants
Cultural survival for Bibi, not for thee, America. We should commission a giant statue, with a plaque calling for the world’s wretched, and ship it to Israel.
Shocked, Shocked
Prosecutors managed to revoke George Zimmerman’s bail today over a financial disclosure technicality. They, and Martin family attorney Ben Crump, want to jail him until an expected trial next year. From the AP: At Friday’s court hearing, De la Rionda and O’Mara also asked a judge to stop the public release of witness names and statements madeContinue reading “Shocked, Shocked”
The Audacity of Expedience
From this NYT article on Obama’s drone war: They describe a paradoxical leader who shunned the legislative deal-making required to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, but approves lethal action [drone strikes] without hand-wringing.(…)Yet the administration’s very success at killing terrorism suspects has been shadowed by a suspicion: that Mr. Obama hasContinue reading “The Audacity of Expedience”
The Staple Singers, A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall
Criminalizing Context Recognition
It had to end here. The Trayvonicus lynch-meme sputters on, but is starting to look like a particularly depressing Al Sharpton hoax as we learn George Zimmerman’s injuries were documented and consistent with a beating. Eyewitnesses testified to them from the start of course, but most Americans have only the legal discovery process to thank forContinue reading “Criminalizing Context Recognition”
Now Repeat After Me
The Derbyshire agitation has so excited the wolves The National Review has deemed it necessary to throw a second passenger from the troika. The pack won’t be sated as long as they’re on the scent of blood, of course, so the remaining riders must be eyeing one another warily. Who’s weak? Who’s suspect? Is itContinue reading “Now Repeat After Me”
SWPL Central
No longer did Wall Street mean Protestant Good Family. There were plenty of prominent Jewish investment bankers…plenty of Irishmen, Greeks, Slavs. That none of the eighty members of the bond department was black or female didn’t bother him…the bond trading room at Pierce & Pierce was no place for symbolic gestures. –The Bonfire of theContinue reading “SWPL Central”
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