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06.18.13 - 4:17 PM

The latest award for Breathtaking Tastelessness In the Iffy Name of Selling Stuff goes to Vice Magazine, which ran a "fashion spread" reenacting the suicides of female authors, complete with blood and fashion notes. After a howl of outrage they pulled it with an equally tasteless non-apology saying their spreads are arty and cool and take "an art editorial point-of-view (not) typical fashion photo-editorial one" so what's our problem? Suicide rates are sharply up in this country, exceeding traffic accidents as a cause of death and bringing untold anguish to many, many people. That's our problem.

-Abby Zimet
06.18.13 - 4:03 PM

Seeking to bypass an almost-total corporate media blackout of the rising movement against GMOs, a coalition of anti-Monsanto groups is launching a campaign calling on people to make and share online videos highlighting the issue. Much more to help reclaim our food.

06.18.13 - 2:17 PM

Testimony to the power of one: Turkish performance artist Erdem Gunduz - soon known, God love the internet, as Standing Man - stood silently for eight hours in Taksim Square, facing a portrait of Turkey's founder Kemal Ataturk, to protest violent repression by police. He was soon joined by hundreds of others, some of whom police arrested. By then, Gunduz was gone. He had explained, "I'm nothing...The idea is important: why people resist the government."

“Standing does not constitute a crime...Humanity cannot find a more democratic type of protest.” - Turkish Bar Association's Metin Feyzioğlu

-Abby Zimet
06.18.13 - 12:10 PM

Yes, these people are still here. They were just at the Faith and Freedom conference bearing the evidently straight-faced title, Road to the Majority, wherein speakers said immigrants are more fertile, we need to protect the unborn, if America doesn't step up to fight radical Islam who will and the GOP needs to lean even further to the right without actually falling off the planet. Sarah Palin! Herman Cain! Phyllis Schlafly! Muslim jokes! They are still here, and despite the polls and elections and lay of the land, they want to be your future.

-Abby Zimet
06.17.13 - 11:42 PM

The Obama administration has for the first time identified 46 prisoners held at Guantánamo as "indefinite detainees," men allegedly too dangerous to release but who cannot be prosecuted due to lack of evidence - a seemingly untenable category nonetheless valid under current law. The list was released to The Miami Herald, which had sued the Defense Department. Held in limbo are 26 Yemenis, 12 Afghans, 3 Saudis, 2 Kuwaitis, 2 Libyans, a Kenyan, a Moroccan, a Somali. Shame.

-Abby Zimet
06.17.13 - 9:42 PM

In a brilliant if unholy juxtaposition of messaging and marketing, Pope Francis celebrated a Mass by both blessing thousands of Harley-Davidson riders thunderously marking the bike's 110th anniversary - 2013 slogan: “Live life on your own terms" - and hosting an anti-abortion rally by warning believers that "power and pleasure" lead to God being "replaced by fleeting human idols which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom." Oddly, nobody seemed to sense any discrepancy between the two sound-and-fury talking points.

-Abby Zimet
06.17.13 - 11:55 AM

With Australia's military facing its own sexual scandal, Chief of Army Lieutenant General David Morrison made a video to make it clear where he (at least says he) stands on the issue. It's clear.

"I will be ruthless in rooting the army of people who cannot live up to its values, and I need everyone of you to support me in achieving this...The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."

-Abby Zimet

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