Monthly Archives: October, 2008
Race in the 21st Century
I was reading a forum post in which the college student was discussing something that happened in class that day. The students got into a discussion about the word nigger, if using it was ever appropriate and if it should be acceptable for Black kids to use while being unacceptable for most White kids to [...]
$108 billion to pay out bonuses to top bank executives
Democratic lawmakers are joining the chorus of Americans asking how slumping banks could hand out executive bonuses during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Following a letter from Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), has opened an investigation into the matter, according to a release from [...]
Islamophobia disguised under ‘freedom of speech’
Writing to Islam Online, Sadia Ali Aden complains that the freedom of speech is a cover for hate speech directed toward Muslims.
The heartrending reality of bigotry and Islamophobia in today’s American environment is overwhelming.
The Islamophobes use the media as a propaganda tool to poison the minds of the American people under the disguise of “freedom [...]
This is how fascism comes: Reflections on the cost of silence
Tim Wise has written a thoughtful and enlightening article in the Red Room that challenges Americans to either take an active stand against the encroaching fascism in our country or reap the rewards of silence.
For those who have seen the ugliness and heard the vitriol emanating from the mouths of persons attending McCain/Palin rallies this [...]
63 trillion votes so far from Florida alone
Florida voters are overwhelmingly supporting Palin for president. Even dead Floridians are voting for Palin. Vote silly in ‘08!
The Liberal Insult Generator
For all those who proudly call themselves Conservative, who subscribe to any far right position without reason or consideration and who cannot manage on their own to compose a killer comeback to those pesky, commie-loving, homo-supporting, anti-god, anti-troops, anti-American, spineless, sushi-eating, terrorist-coddling, Hollywood-humping, liberal defeatocrats: the internet brings you the The Liberal Insult Generator.
Now your [...]
The human barbarian
Two hundred thousand years may seem like a long time to us with our puny 80 year life spans. But on the evolutionary scale it’s not long at all. We are more similar to our early cousins than we are different. There have been modest increases in life span thanks to modern medicine, but physically [...]
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