It’s a “joke,” but it reflects the very real belief that the only problem with race in America is white people being falsely accused of racism.
Month: January 2014
Back in the Gilded Age, every strike, every worker movement, every bit of organizing was seen by the plutocrats as the coming of a revolution that would kill them all. See the response to the Tompkins
I saw Lonnie Holley open for Bill Callahan in October. I had never heard of him before. I looked him up and found out he was some kind of artist but that’s it. So I appreciated this long profile
Hundreds of years from now, after disease and fire and famine have thinned the human herd to a shrunken patchwork of sagging, skeletal bands of jagged, half-mad wraiths — when the parched soil chokes forth desiccated roots and the air is a toxic brume slumping down on the arched, knotted backs of the still-barely-living — […]
Some early evening Friday links: Yesterday, alicublog gave birth to a healthy, bouncing baby meme. Please congratulate the parents. And–if you’re on your second scotch–please give us you
I think that the NSA’s metadata program is legally dubious and worse than dubious as public policy. But trying to stop it through nullification, as several state legislators have proposed, is a
Only, it’s more like “every time as farce, and hopefully not tragedy.” And leaving aside the fact that they’ve already had their bluff called twice, the nominal basis of their bluff is particularly pathetic. They seem very impressed with their shiny new “bailout” idiocy, but if there’s anything the funders of Republican Party will like […]
I have a longer piece about the report of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board up. To me, the key takeaway is that even if we assume arguendo that the program is legal, it certainly imposes
It’s entirely likely that if the United States government ever does anything about climate change, it’s going to be spurred by corporations worried about how it will affect their future pr
This is cute and all, but San Francisco landowners are not failing to invest in the development of their property because they haven’t been sufficiently incentivized to so. They’re failing to invest because practically the whole damn city is ‘historic’ and they can’t even consider allowing 8 stories on top of a damn BART station. […]
In the music and theater business, “papering the house” means giving away a bunch of free tickets in order to make demand for a show look much higher than it actually is. Villanova’s
Radical cleric Mike Huckabee has some deep thoughts: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says that Democrats are pushing women to believe “they cannot control their libido or their reproductive syste