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the asian exclusion act: when u.s. immigration "worked very, very well," according to michele bachmann | angry asian man Where America went wrong, according to the Congresswoman from Minnesota, was in the mid-1960s when the evil liberal members of Congress lifted those good ol' laws of yesteryear — sigh — tearing open the gates to […]

FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are ‘Violent, Radical’ | Danger Room | Wired.com Focusing on the religious behavior of American citizens instead of proven indicators of criminal activity like stockpiling guns or using shady financing makes it more likely that the FBI will miss the real warning signs of terrorism. And depicting Islam as inseparable […]

Das Racist: Relax | Music | Music Review | The A.V. Club Das Racist is, after all, of the millennial generation; brown kids weaned on Yo! MTV Raps and the Cosbys, on the first Nintendo and the X-Men cartoon, on the emergence of new media and that thing called Twitter. A sarcastic embrace of social ills […]

Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga This incident is unfortunate in the extreme for multiple reasons: it's possible that diplomatic sources identified in the cables (including whistleblowers and human rights activists) will be harmed; this will be used by enemies of transparency and WikiLeaks to disparage both and even fuel efforts to prosecute the […]

Serfin’ USA! Teenaged Russkies Duped Into Taking Low-Wage Summer Jobs From American Minorities – By Jake Rudnitsky – The eXiled (tags: culture economy)

BBC News – London riots: Theresa May to meet police chiefs Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Kavanagh said: "Social media and other methods have been used to organise these levels of greed and criminality." He described some messages posted on social media sites as "really inflammatory, inaccurate" and said police would consider arresting people using Twitter […]

Top Gear's electric car shows pour petrol over the BBC's standards | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk (tags: media tv technology sustainability green)

Some Scientists Fear Computer Chips Will Soon Hit a Wall – NYTimes.com A paper presented in June at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture summed up the problem: even today, the most advanced microprocessor chips have so many transistors that it is impractical to supply power to all of them at the same time. So […]

Debt Ceiling Deal: The Democrats Take a Dive | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy The Democrats aren't failing to stand up to Republicans and failing to enact sensible reforms that benefit the middle class because they genuinely believe there's political hay to be made moving to the […]

The Secret Ingredient In Your Orange Juice | Food Renegade The reason your store bought orange juice is so consistently flavorful has more to do with chemistry than nature. (tags: food)