My friend gave me a joke book from 1914. It walks a fine line between unintelligible and racist.
May 19, 2013
May 17, 2013
"I think some of the most powerful feminist depictions in art are the ones that show us how bleak life was for women before feminism, or for women who couldn’t or didn’t embrace feminist ideals."
May 17, 2013
May 16, 2013
"Benghazi was not a terrorist act. Or an act of terror. Or an act of terrorism. Before my Republican friends start getting red in the face, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t awful. Many awful things are not terrorism. Pearl Harbor wasn’t terrorism. Jeffrey Dahmer’s murders weren’t terrorism. Adam Sandler’s Jack and Jill wasn’t terrorism. Terrorism is something quite specific: the intentional killing of civilians in order to achieve a political end. It’s the “civilian” part that makes it terrorism and not something else. Perhaps some conservatives think that any violent action committed by Muslims is terrorism, but it isn’t."
— Benghazi Was Neither a Terrorist Attack Nor an Act of Terror
May 16, 2013
npr:
The U.S. will soon begin to open combat positions to women. That’s already the case in Israel, where women say it is an important step but doesn’t guarantee full equality. The military’s upper echelons remain male-dominated.
— Women In Combat: Some Lessons From Israel’s Military : Parallels
Photo: Larry Abramson/NPR
May 15, 2013
"Why, exactly, is it more in reporters’ interests to be more aggressive in its coverage of Obama right now than it was before? Easy. Now that ”the town” has turned on Obama, being as aggressive as possible in going after him will lead to accolades among media colleagues and ingratiate you with sources, including even Congressional Democrats who will presumably now distance themselves from the White House, in the knowledge that ”the town” has decided the President is in political trouble."
May 15, 2013
"The child boxers bring prize money back to their families. And Chai’s village and trainers, yelling advice and pushing up against the barricades of the ring, don’t come just to cheer for him. They come to bet on him."
— As Gamblers Gather, Thailand’s Child Boxers Slug It Out : Parallels : NPR
May 15, 2013
"The Obama administration is forecast to turn a record $51 billion profit this year from student loan borrowers, a sum greater than the earnings of the nation’s most profitable companies and roughly equal to the combined net income of the four largest U.S. banks by assets."
—
Obama Student Loan Policy Reaping $51 Billion Profit
(via bostonreview)
May 14, 2013
Man, 75, Accused of Running Prostitution Ring in New Jersey Senior Housing Complex | NBC New York
A 75-year-old resident of a New Jersey senior citizen housing complex is suspected of running a prostitution ring that employed some elderly residents as sex workers, NBC 4 New York has learned.
May 14, 2013
Pictured above are The Wild Feathers. Their drummer, Ben Jarvis, made a tour diary that you should check out HERE.
I hope it was written by his mentor, BenJarvus Green-Ellis.
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