For those who watched “Mad Men” instead of whatever that show is that John put up ten open threads about last night (via).
But talk about whatever.
by DougJ| 64 Comments
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For those who watched “Mad Men” instead of whatever that show is that John put up ten open threads about last night (via).
But talk about whatever.
by Imani Gandy (ABL)| 32 Comments
This post is in: Readership Capture
Today, I yammered about the Trayvon Martin case on the AlterNet Radio Hour, hosted by Joshua Holland.
Actually, I yammered via Skype on Friday, but the show aired this afternoon on We Act Radio in D.C. I, of course, streamed it on my iPad while tweeting about it, because it’s the twenty-first century and I’m nothing if not a slave to my iCrap.
The show is a good one, and has the added bonus of being fully-estrogenated. Three guests. Three women.
I’m second up (at around the 28 minute mark), after Dahlia Lithwick and before Sara Robinson. So… semper uteri! — or something.
Just roll the damn tape!
You’re welcome.
(I was also on the Hal Sparks Radio Show on Saturday. You can check that out here, if you like.)
[via AlterNet]
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This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Readership Capture
It’s the last day of the first quarter, so let’s go out with a bang.
Obama
E-Dub
I will add one in for the Scott Walker recall if I can find a link.
by DougJ| 137 Comments
This post is in: Readership Capture, Religion
Religion is always a contentious topic ’round these parts, but I found the discussion of ultra-orthodox Judaism in this thread very interesting, so I thought I might do another free-wheeling religious thread so we can all scream at each other about how we’re all ignorant bigots (though mostly that only happens when it’s Catholicism we’re discussing).
By chance, I’ve had a few long discussions with Hindu friends of mine recently, one a practicing believer, the other a cultural Hindu who has read a lot about religions but doesn’t believe or practice (beyond the annual excruciating Diwali festivities). One explained to me why people in India could build palaces next to ghettos and not have the plebes come and kill them and steal all their shit, because violent acts give you bad karma. The other told me that he thought the big difference between Hinduism/Budhism and western religions is that in western religion, you can repent and not have to pay for your crimes, whereas in eastern religions, you’d get my name’s Krish, and you ain’t talking your way out of this shit. And then I read in a Times article about Tibetan dumplings (it was annoying, so I’m not going to link) that Tibetans liked red meat because the karmic load of killing a single large yak was not as bad as killing a bunch of smaller, say, chickens.
Is that accurate, that the idea that you’ll have to pay via reincarnation for everything you do wrong — no excuses — is something that makes eastern religions fundamentally different from western ones?
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I heard the Lauryn Hill song “Every Ghetto, Every City” while I was riding the train yesterday and it got me thinking: what’s the best song ever about looking back on childhood? I’ll go with “I Wish” by Stevie Wonder, but I also like the Van Morrison song “Take Me Back” (especially the whacked out version JLL does in “Georgia”, as awful as it is). What else is good?
Please, don’t mention that Nickelback song “Photograph”, not even as a joke. There’s nothing funny about an existential threat.
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Congrats to ABL on her move to RawStory. You can hit the tip jar for her here. People think her appearance here was all John’s doing but it was really me who first started linking to her because I liked this phrase:
Yesterday on my way back from San Francisco, I stopped to buy a couple magazines for those excruciating 10 minutes during take off and landing when those asshole flight attendants make me turn my iCrap off. What am I supposed to do? Read the SkyMall catalog?
This post is in: Election 2012, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Readership Capture, Women's Rights Are Human Rights
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Also worth reading, if you missed it: Shelby Knox talks about “My Roommate, Gloria Steinem“:
IF young feminists believed in fairy tales, then moving to New York City and winding up with Gloria Steinem as your roommate would definitely count as one.
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That is what happened to Shelby Knox when she came here in 2007 from Lubbock, Tex., to work at a summer program dedicated to empowering teenage girls. Then 20, Ms. Knox was already somewhat known in the feminist world: In high school she was the subject of a documentary, “The Education of Shelby Knox,” about her fight to change Lubbock’s sex education curriculum, which taught abstinence-only, and how the battle gradually distanced her from the Baptist church in which she had been raised….
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At first, “I was incredibly intimidated,” said Ms. Knox, now 25. “As a 20-year-old would, I was like, ‘I’m not smart enough to talk to her.’ ”
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But then Ms. Steinem watched the documentary, and they started talking about Ms. Knox’s experience promoting it, when she traveled around the country talking to young people about her experience coming of age as a feminist in an evangelical community.
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“She said, ‘You’re an itinerant feminist organizer,’ ” Ms. Knox said. “And I was like: ‘What? This has a name? This isn’t just me avoiding getting a job?’ ” …
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“There’s all these stories about ‘someone will give you your chance,’ and she did,” Ms. Knox said. “It’s not like she did anything magical. It’s not like she anointed me ‘feminist whatever.’ She just said, ‘I’ll give you a roof over your head while you try to learn to make it in New York.’”