Category: Politics
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Happy JFK Day
JFK at the 1960 Democratic Convention.
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Obama kills Osama, relief and validation.
News and a Presidential press conference last night confirmed that Osama Bin Laden was killed in a raid on An compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan. As I listened to President Obama’s press conference, I felt not just relief that the prime public enemy was dispatched, but also relief from the fear that I carried of my neighbors […]
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American Akira: whitewashing, identification and appropriation.
The following is cross-posted from my Race, Gender and the Media class blog. I’m having a great time in that class. I tend to dominate in-class discussion, usually to answer misconceptions brought on by privelidge deniers, A few people in the class must think I’m a jerk. I blame the great coffee across the street, […]
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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow explains a nuclear meltdown
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I always like news media that can educate as well as inform. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow explains the technical details of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant with nerd like enthusiasm. Moreover, she does it without the pretentious, nostalgic authority symbolism of Glenn Beck's chalkboard. I […]
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“Political Correctness” is a reactionary term against the loss of privilege. « Restructure!
“Political Correctness” is a reactionary term against the loss of privilege. « Restructure!. Berg believes this is what political correctness is all about: “The term politically correct is a reactionary term,” he said. “[It was] created by people who were worried by [social] changes…that affected their everyday understanding of the world in ways that pointed […]
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The Wall Street Journal Explains “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” | Racialicious – the intersection of race and pop culture
The Wall Street Journal Explains “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” | Racialicious – the intersection of race and pop culture.
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Reasons to be Cheerful – Charlie’s Diary
Reasons to be Cheerful – Charlie's Diary. Author Charles Stross puts the decade into perspective I'm sorry to note that most of the good stuff didn't happen to those of us in the developed world — but the human world is indisputably in better shape overall in 2010 than it was in 2000. And what […]
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Juan Cole — Death of Pakistani Secularism Much Exaggerated | Informed Comment
Death of Pakistani Secularism Much Exaggerated | Informed Comment.
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9 Major Stories Everyone Got Wrong This Year | Cracked.com
9 Major Stories Everyone Got Wrong This Year | Cracked.com.
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…when good people do nothing — On Slackistan and “Sanity”
I learned a few things from my coverage of the 2009 Tax Day Tea Party rally. Along with providing a preview of the white, middle-class anxiety that was molded by GOP charaltans and corporate funders into a reactionary movement, I also experienced the mood a young observer who ironically derided the motivated-yet-misguided crowd in front […]