March 2012
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I got nothing.: Resigned →
rosa—sparks:
I really did cry last night. I didn’t weep or come undone or wail like a widow, but I cried.
I posted a quick, from my guts post about my anger and sadness at hearing and seeing this. The response to my post is overwhelming. I can’t believe that many people have read ANYTHING I would write, in…
“We know the candidate Barack Obama what he was like. The anti-war government nig...”
– Rick Santorum in Janesville, Wisconsin, March 27, 2012 (via morbidsymptoms)
Good heavens. The racism is eating him from the inside out.
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He probably says n*gger all day long. That’s why it flows out of his gob so easily.
Stay classy Rick Santorum and stay classy, America!
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Blogelstein!: On some WTFery →
jeanhannah:
Here is a woman. She’s chilling out, naked but for a trenchcoat and some stilettos. Legs parted. Airy.
When we saw her being put up on a billboard within clear view of our office a couple of weeks ago, some colleagues and I watched with mild interest. As the image was formed with the panels…
“I had a bright pink shirt on that day,” the manager said. “I was an easy target.”
– Young white men in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, say they’re targets of NYPD’s stop & frisk tactics, too - NY Daily News
Presented without comment. Found via Gawker.
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The White Savior Industrial Complex, by Teju Cole →
“I want to tread carefully here: I do not accuse Kristof of racism nor do I believe he is in any way racist. I have no doubt that he has a good heart. Listening to him on the radio, I began to think we could iron the whole thing out over a couple of beers. But that, precisely, is what worries me. That is what made me compare American sentimentality to a “wounded hippo.” His good...
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Eat The Olympics →
Eating our way through the cuisines of the 205 nations taking part in the London 2012 Olympics.
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A question...
Why is Mumford and Sons?
I’ll wait.
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The NYPD - Winning Hearts and Minds By Accusing... →
“At this point, I realized that there were 2 people banging and they now identify themselves as the Police and yell that we open the door. One of them yells out- “YEAH YEAH, GO AHEAD HIDE ALL THE STUFF”.
I called 911, confirmed that they had sent cops to my apartment and then we opened the door. The first thing one of them says to me:“ARE YOU GUYS HIGH ON LSD OR...
tentacular:
Stand down: literature has defeated the Thought Police. Belgium’s supreme court has defeated the mischief-making of the whining PC brigade. Tintin is not banned. Huzzah!
The badness of the bad faith involved in the commentariat’s discussion of this issue, the relentlessness of their categoric elisions, the unpleasantness of their crowing over the victory, should come as no...
