Because caipirinhas in Brazil.
Open Thread – Life purchased at the price of chains
Via wrenchwench at Little Green Footballs, this particularly fine article by Alex Tizon is probably one that should be read in private if you don’t want to be reduced to a blubbering mess at work like me. The ashes filled a black plastic box about the size of a toaster. It weighed three and a …
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A prayer for those who could not finish their prayers
From the address given by Imam Hassan Guillet at the funeral for 3 of the Quebec City mosque victims, Ibrahima Barry, Mamadou Tanou, Azzeddine Soufiane: The society that could not protect them, the society that could not benefit from their generosity still has a chance. The hands that didn’t shake the hands of Khaled or …
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Open thread – Someone should ask Frederick Douglass what he thinks….
Further to my earlier post, I want to note that I am not suggesting for a moment that Australia holds any high moral ground when it comes to immigration and race relations. It isn’t what anyone would call a good actor in this situation. Its attempt to fob off a thousand refugees on America is …
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Crikey, what a drongo
[ETA: Bonus points to CNN for the Breaking News banner.] Malcolm Turnbull may be a bit of a cock, but he’s going to come out of this looking quite good domestically, if only from sheer relief he isn’t Donald Fucking Trump. Standing up to a rich dickhead gets you a fair bit of kudos down …
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Miss you – Gabrielle Aplin Lying to You – Goldroom
Bring on the Presidential* tweetstorm
The federal court for the Eastern District of New York has officially issued an emergency stay, halting President Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S, The Verge reported Saturday. The court ruled on a habeas corpus petition filed by the ACLU on behalf of two Iraqi men who …