January 2008
28 posts
Britney > Bush
Despite the economy drawing “heavy coverage and widespread interest” last week, Americans and the news media see President Bush as a non-story, behind Britney Spears. Source: Think Progress
Beckham To Teach Brazilians Soccer?
this is the extent of his training program for brazilian youth. David Beckham is about to attempt the impossible… teaching Brazilians to play better football. The former England captain will fly to the South American country this week to launch a huge Beckham-branded football centre in Brazil’s Natal coastal resort. Beckham, 32, will announce plans for a sports complex bearing his...
Here’s your question, class: In his State of the Union, the President asked Congress for $300 million for poor kids in the inner city. As there are, officially, 15 million children in America living in poverty, how much is that per child? Correct! $20. Here’s your second question. The President also demanded that Congress extend his tax cuts. The cost: $4.3 trillion over ten years. The big...
WatchPalestinian hip-hop at Sundance! More info about the movie, Slingshot Hip-Hop
“No, no the book itself, the books, they write me. They decide, they decide...”
– Eduardo Galeano
State Of The Union
We are also standing against the forces of extremism embodied by the regime in Tehran. Iran’s rulers oppress a good and talented people. And wherever freedom advances in the Middle East, it seems the Iranian regime is there to oppose it. Iran is funding and training militia groups in Iraq, supporting Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, and backing Hamas’ efforts to undermine peace in the Holy Land....
What Will The Next President Do About Flaming...
An out-of-control US spy satellite is expected to crash to Earth in late February or early March, the Pentagon said Monday without specifying where it might land. Department of Defense spokesman Bryan Whitman said the satellite, which has lost power, would land “over the next several weeks … late February, early March time-frame.” Source: AFP
Top 5 Craziest Tenants In My Building...
Since I moved into my new apartment a few months ago, I’ve realized that there are an unusually high number of crazy people living in this building. Like batshit doing backflips off large oak trees blindfolded while singing Kiswahili lullabies crazy. Crazy even for New York City standards. Here are the 5 craziest tenants that I have encountered thus far in my place of dwelling… 1. Roller Derby...
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway...”
– Hunter S. Thompson
A Time To Break Silence
And some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. …I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution...
“Israel must have known” about the wedding party in the Gaza Strip near to...”
– John Dugard, UN special rapporteur on human rights
Breaking: Steve Jobs Is A Closeted Arab!
Born to syrian father Abdulfattah John Jandali, who, along with his biological mother, put him up for adoption at an early age, Jobs doesn’t like to associate with his Arab side. In fact, he is so distant from identifying as Arab, he threatened to sue author Alan Deustchman for including the Syrian backstory in the upcoming unauthorized biographer on him, “The Second Coming of Steve...
Warning: Sean Paul Now Causes Seizures
Now that surgeons have operated on Stacey Gayle’s brain, her favorite musician no longer makes her ill. Eighteen months ago, she began to suspect that music by reggae and hip-hop artist Sean Paul was triggering some of her seizures. She recalled being at a barbecue and collapsing when the Jamaican rapper’s music started playing, and then remembered having a previous seizure when she...
“Soccer is a slow, boring, low-scoring, meaningless, super-sucky pseudo-sport played exclusively by lesbians, small children and homosexual Nazi psychopaths with bad haircuts. And terrorists. Children who play soccer all grow up to be “asshole incompetents” and “knock-kneed milksops” and “flopping on the ground, writhing-in-pain homos”. Soccer is being...
Watchgreat report from Current TV about the reintegration of amputees back into society in post-civil war Sierra Leone.
Republican Pandering At The Detroit Auto Show
huckabee tries to figure out if the ford concept car he sits in is a product of creationism or evolution, while romney chuckles about the potential immigrant chauffeurs he could employ to cart his family around in that new chrysler while he hatches a plan to incarcerate and deport immigrants and their families.
Big Tings A Gwan In 2008?
Since the year two thousand and eight is suddenly upon us, here are The Hairdryer Treatment’s artists to look out for in the next twelve months… 1. Guilty Simpson Hailing from Detroit, this guy is pretty ridiculous with the punch lines and delivery. He has been slept on nationally for while now, but his gritty street themes and sharp lyricism are more compelling and convincing than most rappers...
“We treat these problems as if one is guacamole and one is chips, when …...”
– —Hillary Clinton, in a heavily Latino Las Vegas-area neighborhood, January 10. Source: The New Republic
Watchthis is a video from tinariwen’s nyc visit in november. there is a nice little interview segment/background on the tuareg people and their struggles as well as a couple songs at an in-store performance. i saw them play the night before this video was filmed in what turned out to be one of the best concerts of my life. these guys are ridiculous on the guitar.
John McCain Will Get The Job Done... In 10,000...
On CBS’s Face The Nation last week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) claimed Americans would not be “concerned” if the U.S. spends “10,000 years” in Iraq. Earlier in the week, he said it “would be fine with” him if the U.S. military stayed in Iraq for “a hundred years” or even a “million years.” Source: Think Progress
Candidates With The Most Health Care Industry...
Hillary Clinton (D) $1,695,830 Barack Obama (D) $1,330,743 Mitt Romney (R) $1,041,267 Rudolph W. Giuliani (R) $1,026,452 John McCain (R) $568,880 Source: The Center for Responsive Politics
The scandal of Africa's trafficked players →
timely article in the guardian about the widespread human trafficking of soccer players from africa to europe. this is what happens when big money sports, global wage inequality, and throwback european colonialism converge. They come to Europe to play for AC Milan or Paris St-Germain, but the reality for many talented young African footballers, children not much older than nine, is that they...
Classic New Rudy Giuliani Ad...
brown people screaming? check. arabs with guns? check. throngs of angry men burning the american flag? check. a narrator saying that muslims are ‘a people perverted’? check. political exploitative clip of Benazir Bhutto? check. buildings and trucks burning after fiery explosions? check. 9-11 imagery? check. Ahmadinejad? check. Osama? check. Palestinians? check.
This Is Democracy??? →
Bush liberated her. US-LED coalition and paramilitary forces in Iraq were responsible for some 24,000 violent civilian deaths in 2007, according to an independent group monitoring casualties in the war-ravaged country. The Iraq Body Count (IBC) whose figures are tallied from media reports, morgue and hospital data, non-governmental and other sources, said in a report that there were...