May 2010
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What we teach our children about race
tennroof:
By Leonard Pitts
Last week, Soledad O’Brien made a young mother cry.
It came in the midst of a special series, “Black Or White: Kids on Race” on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360. The series was based on a new version of the famous “doll tests” pioneered by husband and wife psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark in the 1930s and ’40s, and recreated in 2005 by Kiri Davis, a teenage...
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More Than Just an Oil Spill →
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thecurvature:soofriends:so-treu:tobia:
“The fact that 11 human beings were killed in the Deepwater Horizon explosion (their bodies never found) has become, at best, an afterthought. BP counts its profits in the billions, and, therefore, it’s important. The 11 men working on the rig were no more important in the current American scheme of things than the oystermen losing...
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Day 18
champagnecandy:
jnell:
Day Eighteen - A song that you wish you heard on the radio day
“Doing the Unstuck” by The Cure
I’ve always considered The Cure to be one of my favorite bands, but it wasn’t until recently that I realized a) I don’t really listen to them that much and b) I really only like a few of their songs. So clearly, they are not actually one of my favorite bands and I’m just a...
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Ex-Cop Goes Rogue on the Drug War, Tells Pot... →
criminalwisdom:
Profile of former dirty cop turned pot advocate Barry Cooper, creator of the DVD series Never Get Busted Again.
” … if you have marijuana in the car, it’s a good idea to also bring along a cat, since that will distract even a drug dog. Got cops knocking on your door? Cooper says it’s best to lock it shut, and then tell them through a closed window that you won’t let them in...
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The Most Widely Read Magazine in the World →
givemesomethingtoread:
It’s the first Saturday of March and a perfect day for Jehovah’s Witnessing. The sky is clear, the air is crisp and a fresh copy of The Watchtower, stamped March 1, 2010, is ready to be distributed.
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“I’m just saying, instead of waiting for them to drop in their tracks? Let’s just...”
– seperis | stop me if you’ve heard this one already (via clingtomymouth)
KABLAM!
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Keeping the Mentally Ill Out of Prison →
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abbyjean:
USA Today reports that the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice have found that seriously mentally ill people are more likely to end up in jail or prison than in a treatment center. This is true across all states, but in some this was much more likely to happen. Arizona was 10 times more likely to put a mentally ill person in the ...
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“The U.S. already has one of the most pro-government criminal justice systems in...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via azspot)
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“An important belief behind the creation of the Declaration of Independence was...”
– Human Rights, Not the Rights of Citizenship (via azspot)
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“So Kagan is ‘Obama’s Harriet Miers’… It’s crazy. It’s like, no matter what...”
– JON STEWART, on pundits and Fox News personalities using terms like “Obama’s Katrina,” “Obama’s Enron,” “Obama’s 9/11” and “Obama’s Heckuva Job, Brownie!” to compare the current president’s crises to those of George W. Bush, on The Daily Show.
Stewart fucking nailed it.
(via inothernews)
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Ezra Klein Calls Bulls**t on Accusations that...
thepoliticalpartygirl:
equalitymyth:
Big ups to our colleague (for now, anyway) Ezra Klein, whose Washington Post column today thrashes the argument that Obama shouldn’t nominate two women in a row to the Supreme Court. Since women make up half the population, the odds of two women being seated to the high court in a row are a solid 25%. The odds that 34 male justices would be seated even...
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“I say to you this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via azspot) (via think4yourself) (via abcsoupdot) (via jonathan-cunningham)
Gives me goosebumps.
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Who were you in your past life? →
Your past life diagnosis:
I don’t know how you feel about it, but you were male in your last earthly incarnation.You were born somewhere in the territory of modern Scotland around the year 1475. Your profession was that of a artist, magician or fortune teller.
Your brief psychological profile in your past life: As a natural talent in psychology, you knew how to use your opportunities....
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“Sad to say, political sport has put Attorney General Eric Holder and his boss,...”
– Miranda Panders (via ryking)
This will be an interesting, and terrifying thing to watch unfold. Unfortunately there are many Americans who do not know their rights - you don’t have to talk to police, you don’t have to talk to investigators. You have the right to not incriminate...
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Officer Was On The Scene As Man Was Choked To... →
adamquinn:
The story of a man who was choked to death by a CVS employee after stealing toothpaste from the Chicago store on Saturday is getting even more scrutiny, after police admitted Monday that a Cook County sheriff’s officer was on the scene when the man, Anthony Kyser, was killed.
Kyser, a 35-year-old barber, was chased out of the Little Village store and restrained by an employee of the...
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DNA test clears American musician after 28 years... →
abbyjean:
In an extraordinary scene, barely noticed in America this week amid coverage of the enormous oil spill and the New York bomb plot, Mr Towler, a 52-year-old musician, walked free from a Cleveland court after spending more than half his life in prison for a crime of which he always maintained his innocence and which DNA analysis proved he did not commit. His case is not unique, but the...
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“Amid complaints about high taxes and calls for a smaller government, Americans...”
– Tax bills in 2009 at lowest level since 1950 - USATODAY.com (via kleptolovestory) (via bluishorange)
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