July 2009
June 2009
this custody situation is turning into a nightmare...
The biological father of Michael Jackson’s children, Prince and Paris, is dermatologist Arnold Klein, former boss of Debbie Rowe. Klein and Rowe signed an agreement to never reveal the truth. So much for agreements. Meanwhile, Jackson never adopted any of them. (wow)
this is equivalently convoluted to a torts hypo i remember, where a car accident caused a car to hit and knock down a...
Bank of America accused of exploiting Latino... →
Gabby Ornelas, a former teller at the giant Bank of America Corp Ornelas was instructed to use her Spanish language skills and Latina heritage to sign up customers for as many kinds of banking services as possible, she said — services that led to lucrative fees for the bank and financial entanglement for many customers.
“We were coached every day to push multiple checking accounts, credit cards...
“Did [accusations of partisanship] damage the census? Yes, it damaged the idea of...”
– Kenneth Prewitt served as Bill Clinton’s director of the US Census Bureau from 1998 to 2001 . Currently, he serves as a part-time consultant for the US Census Bureau, appointed by President Obama. (Mother Jones)
sigh
katoleary:
bowlingalleylawyer:
I guess being white makes you racist by default just like being a man makes you a misogynist by default.
I love the way Tumblr thinks.
But both of those things are kind of true. I mean, it’s nearly impossible to live in a society where racism and sexism have basically been built into the framework and not internalize these things. The problem is thinking...
the worst opening sentences of novels contest
via the monkey cage, your winners, ladies and gentlemen:
Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon, when the wind is blowin’ off Nantucket Sound from the nor’ east and the dogs are howlin’ for no earthly reason, you can hear the awful screams of the crew of the “Ellie May,” a sturdy whaler Captained by John McTavish; for it was on just such a night when the rum was...
“Consider the illiberal capitulations that Google and Yahoo have made to the...”
– The Cost of Hashtag Revolution | The American Prospect (via igather)
“So now we got a domestic violence czar - an adviser. What the hell kind of...”
– Rush Limbaugh (via ohfortheloveofdog)
Ultrasound Kills Red Tides →
Dangerous red tides that kill fish and marine mammals and are toxic, even carcinogenic, to humans, might be destroyed using bursts of ultrasound. Researchers at the U of Hull in the UK experimented with ultrasound on a species of algae that can cause respiratory disease and liver cancer in humans. The 1-megahertz band was most effective—probably by bursting the buoyancy cells filled with nitrogen...
“I’ve seen a lot of people totally wreck their lives by refusing therapy or...”
– Tiger Beatdown: So am I the only person who thinks therapy is kind of a load of crap? (via notemily)
bruno
Sacha Baron Cohen was on The Tonight Show last week, promoting his new film Brüno, in which he plays a “flamboyant” gay reporter with the ostensible objective of exposing homophobia. But just like every other promotional appearance for the film, SBC arrived in character and made Brüno’s sexuality and gender expression the continuous punchline throughout the interview. The only...
Tech Tips: Obscuring Spoilers in Comments - Screen... →
great link on how to screen spoilers on blogs but still be accessible to screen readers.
accessibility - you’re doing it right to think about and find solutions to issues like this.
note to self
be careful checking the reblogs of the jay-z blocks chris brown performance at BET awards story. there’s some positive comments applauding jay, but there’s also a fair amount of nasty stuff:
jay-z is an evil drug dealing gangster from marcy gardens so clearly cannot have moral authority on any issue in any way. thug. also, he has been disrespectful to women in the past so cannot work...
go hov!
the source confirms that jay-z threatened to cancel his performance at last night’s BET awards if chris brown was allowed to perform, which caused BET to cancel brown’s performance.
Insiders tell TheSource.com that Chris Brown was confirmed to put on a tribute for the late icon on Friday. Brown had even rehearsed for three days in L.A. for the show, however, once Jay-Z caught wind of...
“Terry Gilliam—Ledger’s friend and mentor, and the director of Doctor...”
– How is this ANY of Terry Gilliam’s business? (via wannablessedbe)
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing Phase Three of [X, Always A Dude] Was A Tragic Hero Unfit For This Fallen World: the His Girlfriend Was A Bitch portion.
(via tigerbeatdown)
health care stories from the united states
ezra says: A few weeks ago, Barack Obama’s Organizing for America put out a call for health-care stories from its members. Thousands flooded in. Now they’re online. This one, from Tristan, is particularly brutal:
I had health insurance through my employer after I graduated from college. I was having problems with my stomach, I vomited blood at least once a week. I went to a doctor to...
Center of the French Speaking World Shifts to... →
If you’re a human being who speaks French, you’re more likely to be African than European. La Francophonie’s demographic center of gravity is now somewhere around Bamako, Mali.
If you’re a human being who is literate in French — say, at a high school graduate level — you’re probably European. But not for much longer. Demographic growth plus the slow-but-steady rise of literacy rates in most of...
Giving up my iPod for a Walkman, by 13-year-old... →
It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette.
“For the record, I find cis- to be offensive. In general, I thought our community...”
– A commenter at Pam’s House Blend:: Enough Already
Awww, baby wants a cookie for not saying tranny and for accepting bisexuals. Baby’s feelings are hurt because those mean transfolk pointed out that he’s got a gender identity.
What’s more disconcerting is how readily the Pam’s House Blend blogger,...
“A black woman was reading her work–and I kept thinking about how self-centered...”
– flipfloppingjoy
homeless weddings in the nytimes
in one of the few moments of awareness that a world exists outside upper class over educated white people, the nytimes had not one but two short pieces on homeless weddings in the vows section yesterday. it’s a nice reminder that the homeless do more than panhandle and drink - they are real people with real lives and relationships.
article about the wedding of jennifer keen and paul sousa
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-28) →
Prince (10)
Clipse (10)
Major Lazer (9)
The Gossip (9)
En Vogue (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
this is uncomfortable
so i am watching the BET awards and they are primarily a michael jackson tribute show, as you would imagine. but all of it has been entirely uncritical, he’s a legend, he’s a great man, he’s responsible for all music everywhere ever. and then joe jackson, michael’s father is there. joe’s abuse of michael is well documented:
Joe Jackson says “I whipped...
all of these bathtubs are perfect
tub with stupendous view, hill house, mount washington
tub with stupendous view, hidden valley house, eagle rock
tub with stupendous view, baxter house, silver lake
not a bathtub, but an amazing outdoor shower with tree, three trees house, eagle rock
“It would be more useful if, instead of lionizing MJ, his passing could open up a...”
– comment on Tiger Beatdown: Michael Jackson, Celebrity, Empathy, and the Culture of Silence (via igather)
And people are believing this shit?????
thecurvature:
Oh yeah, I’m totally wrong to believe two separate children who didn’t know each other who accused a man of sexual abuse, especially with the knowledge of how rare false accusations are.
But it makes TOTAL FUCKING SENSE to buy some bullshit written on a blog with no sources or major news outlets to back it up or even a single google news hit. At least, when it calls a victim a...
“All right, let’s predict what’s coming next: the list of drugs MJ was allegedly...”
– liz spikol.
