Month: December 2009

Over the past decade, according to BTS, there have been 99,320,309 commercial airline departures that either originated or landed within the United States. Dividing by six, we get one terrorist incident per 16,553,385 departures.These departures flew a collective 69,415,786,000 miles. That means there has been one terrorist incident per 11,569,297,667 mles flown. This distance is […]

But if there was no piracy maybe they could have hit $20 billion: Claims by the MPAA that illegal downloads are killing the industry and causing billions in losses are once again being shredded. In 2009, the leading Hollywood studios made more films and generated more revenue than ever before, and for the first time […]

It is awful there’s no way to fund both: Berkeley High School is considering a controversial proposal to eliminate science labs and the five science teachers who teach them to free up more resources to help struggling students. The proposal to put the science-lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High’s School […]

More from Racialicious: But while it was clear before his philandering scandal that Woods was seen as black more than he was seen as Cablinasian, it has become inescapable since. Woods’ philandering is being interpreted via stereotypes about black men: he’s spectacularly unfaithful, and he has a hankering for white women. Within American culture’s racist […]

From Racialicious: There is something extremely generic about the woman who incidentally is Lady Gaga. She’s blonde, thin and wearing bright red lipstick. I read somewhere that Lady Gaga considers herself to be “redefining beauty.” Pullease! She’s a young skinny white woman who doesn’t wear pants. I do not see any boundary breaking there. Basically, […]