Month: April 2007
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VTech Shooter Bought Gun Online
Did anyone else’s mouth fall open when AC360 used the phrase ‘online gun store’?
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Iranian Lesbian Blogger Faces Her Faith
(via Frostpaw) Let me tell you something. I really believe in God, Mohammed, and Ali. I believe in some of the prayers like “Ayatolkorsi”, “Naade Ali”, “Va En Yakad” and so on. And I say these prayers whenever I’m going out of the house. But I also believe there are some rules that are getting […]
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Artist Javier Lara Asks America About Gun Control and the Virginia Tech Shootings
My buddy and Venezuelan sculptor Javi emails and asks: I am so sick of the poor reporting that the USA news are doing about the incident in Virginia, they are talking about everything , but no one is addressing the real problem GUN CONTROL…..what is it going to take for a 6 year old to […]
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Toys R Us to Sell Rapist Action Figure from Grindhouse
I don’t fully believe it yet: Apparently Quentin Tarantino’s character from the new Grindhouse movie Planet Terror, Rapist Number One, is being made into a toy and sold at Toys R Us stores across the country. Seriously. Garance doesn’t buy that the doll will be widely avaiable, and thinks that this is “a manufactured outrage […]
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Saudi Newscaster Buthayna Nasser Does an On-Air Takedown
This rocks. Saudi newscaster Buthayna Nasser does a live-TV takedown when a fundamentalist man tells her that she shouldn’t be allowed to be shown on television. (via Feministing)
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Getting Things Undone
T writes about productivity, lack thereof and other under- and over-whelmances: Part of it is also a fear of mine: that if I do everything I’m supposed to do, when I’m supposed to do it, I won’t have any time left for the things I want to do. That and the realization that a lot […]
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Conservative Pundit: VA Tech's Men Failed
Classy: (via Think Progress) College classrooms have scads of young men who are at their physical peak, and none of them seems to have done anything beyond ducking, running, and holding doors shut. Meanwhile, an old man hurled his body at the shooter to save others. Something is clearly wrong with the men in our […]
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Kucinich: Articles of Impeachment To Be Filed On Cheney
Articles of Impeachment To Be Filed On Cheney Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), the most liberal of the Democratic presidential candidates in the primary field, declared in a letter sent to his Democratic House colleagues this morning that he plans to file articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.
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Asian Photographer Arrested in Virginia – Then Released
Nice. The Asian man seen being cuffed in this photo is Shaozhou Cui, a photographer for the VT student newspaper. HE IS NOT “THE SHOOTER!” The only thing Shao can be accused of shooting is photographs. Without having heard from him yet, I assume that maybe he got too close to the action before the […]