You made [Name Redacted] poke Glenn Greenwald. 1 hour ago
April 27, 2008
The Colonialization of Kong
In light of feminist outrage over the supposedly RACIST! way some Vogue photographer posed LeBron James and Giselle Bundchen (LeBron being a man — and a Black man, at that — was too stupid, presumably, to notice that he was being used by the white power structure to denigrate his own race; and Giselle, being a “pretty white thing,” was probably too frail and fearful to put an end to
In the Land of Oz (CraigC)
In an article about the White House Correspondents Dinner, AP writer Christine Simmons attempts to give some context to President Bush’s tweaking of the current candidates: Bush then referred to scandals that have dogged the campaigns of the two remaining Democratic candidates, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, in explaining their absence: “Hillary Clinton couldn’t get in because of sniper fire and Senator Obama’s at church.” During the ongoing campaign,
"You cranky, magnificent bastards." [Karl]
The Late, Late Show’s Craig Ferguson has — in the course of becoming a US citizen — read our book: Please, never, ever, ever agree with each other. Never stop arguing, never stop fighting. You cranky, magnificent bastards. Thus is a late-night comedian revealed as getting America more than Barack Obama and John McCain. All of which is a high-minded way of saying that TVNewser has a picture of Julie
Dems 2008: Sunday Obamaland round-up [Karl]
Despite the general level of Obama fatigue, it is hard to ignore that more about the characters that populate Obamaland continue to bubble to the surface in the blogosphere. Larry Johnson notes that Obama has been less than honest about his relationship with unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers. We already knew that Ayers held the first fundraiser at his home to help launch Obama’s state senate campaign in 1995, and that
Persian Hospitality? [Dan Collins]
Five British hostages who were kidnapped in Iraq almost a year ago are being held inside Iran by Revolutionary Guards, according to two separate sources in the Middle East and London. The hostages were handed over to the Revolutionary Guards by their Iraqi kidnappers last November, the sources believe. One of the sources said they were being held in the western Iranian city of Hamadan. If confirmed, the involvement of
Depraved Imperial Storm Trooper Killbots [Dan Collins]
force doomed Iraqi children to bust a move before . . . (h/t Thor)
Maybe it's time for the North to secede from the Union [Karl]
I do not know whether Michael Hirsh should be blamed for that Newsweek sub-headline, as he cites evidence that the North is seceding from the North: As John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge observed in their 2004 book, “The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America,” the nation’s population center has been “moving south and west at a rate of three feet an hour, five miles a year.” That is the ironic
Dems 2008: Do the Huckabarack! [Karl]
Barack Obama’s slipping poll numbers are likely to further fuel Democratic disquiet that the protracted fight between Obama and Hillary Clinton is creating a racial divide in the party: “If this party is perceived by people as having gone into a back room somewhere and brokered a nominee, that would not be good for our party,” House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (S.C.), the highest ranking African American in Congress, warned

Shannon Elizabeth comments on "white privilege" as it obtains in feminist circles
Elizabeth: “One time, while explaining to Marlon Wayans and Method Man why it wasn’t cool for them to pin me down and smear my breasts with Coconut milk and Aveeno, I had what we sisters like to call an epiphany — namely, that I was being unfair to my Black brothers, holding back the fruits of my white privilege from the victim class like that, even if I was doing