All Further Articles for 2013-02-sites
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Really? The new Bloomberg Businessweek cover, with grotesque caricatures of people of color, suggests greedy shiftless minorities are coming for your money and your houses - a mind-blowingly racist claim that observers more astute than the Bloomberg editorial staff note is also entirely inaccurate. Welcome to post-racial America. Read more |
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Just Like Other Agencies, the U.S. Marshals Service Doesn't Really Want to Talk About Their Drones Evidently uninterested in the notion of government transparency, the Marshals Service took months to respond to a FOIA request from the ACLU for information on their drone program, finally sending two of 30 existing pages so heavily redacted they "reveal almost no information." What's known is that the Marshals tested - and crashed - two small drones a while ago, may or may not have continued the program, and are in no hurry to tell us. "We should not have to guess whether our government is using these eyes in the sky to spy on us." Read more |
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How Peace Spreads Celebrating the common language of music, the Daniel Pearl Memorial Violin has carefully passed to this year's recipient - along with the viola, cello and second violin that are the Daniel Pearl Quartet - as instruments of peace. Named for the journalist and amateur violinist killed in Pakistan, they are the work of Maine luthier and fiddler Jonathan Cooper who, after Pearl's murder, saw them and the power of music as "a way to help counteract all that darkness." Each year, four instruments pass to four young musicians who play them, share their message of tolerance, and pass them along. Sarah Hubbard, 19: "This is how peace spreads." Read more |
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Surreal Juxtaposition of the Day: Rosa and Scalia Even as Antonin Scalia led his right-wing cohorts in trying to gut the Voting Rights Act, labeling it a “perpetuation of racial entitlement,” Obama and Congressional leaders unveiled a statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks across town. The law was challenged by Alabama officials who argued "the problem to which the Voting Rights Act was addressed is solved.” Uh, right. Read more |
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Ellison Slams the "Worst Excuse For A Journalist," Epic Battle Ensues In one of the teevee's most lively moments, Minnesota's Rep. Keith Ellison ripped into Sean Hannity as immoral, a Republican shill and “the worst excuse for a journalist I have ever seen” after the Fox host ran a ridiculous segment showing Obama leading us into a sequester Apocalypse. It was all downhill from there: Both men yelled at each other, Hannity threw him off the air. Speaking of downhill, Hannity's ratings are down 35%. Try to get through the clip and you'll see why it couldn't happen to a better guy. Read more |
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The Year's First Crocoduck Nominee Says (Obviously) Evolution Is Hogwash Citing the "Darwinist mass hypnosis" that has afflicted the world, Adnan Oktar a.k.a. Harun Yahya has won the year's first nomination for the Golden Crocoduck - honoring the biggest breach of the 9th Commandment by creationists - for his Atlas of Creation. Video. Read more |
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Florida Students Admirably Unhappy Their Football Stadium Will Be Named After For-Profit Prisons Called Cesspools Students at Florida Atlantic University with more backbone than their sports-loving, money-grubbing whores of school officials staged a sit-in to protest a decision to give $6 million naming rights to their new football stadium to the nearby GEO Group, a massive private prison company accused of horrific abuses at their facilities, including unnecessary deaths, "barbaric" conditions for juveniles, and what one judge called “a cesspool of unconstitutional and inhuman acts," because what could go better together than football and violent, abusive, for-profit incarceration? Let the games begin. Read more |
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This Happened: College Rape Victim Charged with "Intimidating" Her Rapist By Talking Out Loud About It After going public with her story of sexual assault, a University of North Carolina sophomore faces expulsion or a range of other sanctions for being “disruptive” and “intimidating” her alleged rapist - who she hasn't named - thus possibly violating the school’s “Honor Code." Undoubtedly completely coincidentally, Landen Gambill was one of many other sexual assault victims who earlier filed a federal Civil Rights complaint alleging school officials pressured a dean to under-report such cases. Read more |
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No Banker Left Behind: How We Give Big Banks $83 Billion A Year In Our Taxes It seems the country's top five banks - JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs - aren't just too big to fail. They're also too big to turn a profit, which is why the profits they report are essentially transfers from us to their shareholders: We give them at least 3 cents on every dollar in taxes. More on how we pay these monsters to endanger us from that bastion of Marxism, Bloomberg Business. With Ry Cooder telling it like it is. Update : Today, a fierce Elizabeth Warren grilled Ben Bernanke on the same $83 billion subsidy. Read more |
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Yoga Wlll Turn Kids Into Godless Sun-Worshipping Pagans, Lawsuit Charges Arguing that schools are turning children into "religious guinea pigs," a right-wing legal center is suing a California school district on behalf of parents who say a student yoga program violates their kids' religious freedom by teaching them what school officials describe as “stretching, moving, breathing.” Though the program is optional and carefully stripped of even Sanscrit names for poses, lawyers call yoga "a serious breach of the public trust," especially when kids stretch their hands to the ceiling and thus sorta kinda almost worship the sun. From one freaked-out parent: "They’re teaching children how to think and make decisions... They’re teaching children how to meditate, how to look for peace and for comfort." Read more |