The Hate that Hate Produced

Melissa Harris-Lacewell lays it down. I don't know how much more hate and stupidity I can take (the two go together), but I guess I better get used to it because it's not going away.

Better halves.

No political rant today because I'm lighting up the blog boards. Controversy du jour is Skip Gates and the white folks who are saying calm the fuck down - to which I say, people of color will calm the fuck down when we all admit that there is a problem with institutional racism and acknowledge that a black man does not see a white officer entering his home the same way that a white man sees it. And that's how I feel about that.

Artist of the Day: Keith Urban. I liked him a lot back in 2004-5. Then I went to China and there were sadly no country music stations. That's why we have youtube. Here is a live version of one of my favorite songs of his, Better Half.

Dumb Ass

Birthers. I don't even know why I'm legitimizing this shit by posting, but it's almost 8a and I haven't slept or done much writing and this just about makes me want to shit my pants it's so crazy. The dumb ass birther conspiracy goons have invaded cable news and will not get a motherfucking life. They brewed this Molotov cocktail of stupid, racist shit and now are lobbing it into every news show they can find. I can't even write about how illogical, unnecessary, and RACIST this all is. I've never smashed my head into a brick wall, but I don't need to; I just listen to fuck up birther goons.

Here is Chris Matthews squaring off with a straight up crook, G. Gordon Liddy. I'm posting this because of all the interviews on this stupid ass subject, Liddy's broke ass, punched in the face one too many times response sums up the whole deal. Matthews presents him with the facts and the evidence more times than he has fingers and all Liddy can say is Obama's step-grandma gave a signed deposition stating he was born in Kenya (later shown to be a gross mistranslation). Fuck you.

Round Three

Rachel spitting the truth.

Here's the shit that started it all, if you can stomach listening to this.

Let's kill racism once and for all. I'm sick of this guy. I'm sick of writing a thesis about race in the 19th and 20th centuries and drawing parallels to the 21st. Stop the hate already.

Round Two

Another Daily Kos post that refutes Pat Buchanan's nonsense. Word to your mother, fucker.

Pat Buchanan is racist and other observations.

Pat Buchanan has been spewing crazy again. He tussled with Rachel Maddow over the Sotomayor hearings, and the result was an ugly, intolerant, patronizing, self-absorbed train of verbal shit in a week where there was a lot of it to go around. It was racist plain and plain, effortlessly distilled into the one argument that "This country has been built basically by white folks." Yes, that's right, he said it. Rachel Maddow smacked that bitch around a bit, but he needs to be whipped (figuratively, not literally - no violence here). MSNBC needs to stop treating him like a grumpy old man because he ain't just a grumpy old man; he's a grumpy old racist man and there ain't no reason for that to be on television - unless it's some made-for-tv movie on ABC Family (is that channel still around?) about old school bigots back when Jim Crow was still flying high. Daily Kos breaks it down but you can find similar chatter all over the blogs. Bastard.

Glenn Greenwald offers an enlightened take on Walter Cronkite's passing, more specifically on the self-serving journalistic lovefest that these tv tributes are turning into. I'm glad he wrote about it because I had similar feelings watching Anderson Cooper 360 today. The Silver Fox gave a short memorial but he wasn't anchoring; in his place was John King who waxed lyrical about Uncle Walter's lasting contributions to journalism and to the nation and about his irreplaceablity. Clearly CNN did not see the irony in pushing two of its pretty stars to expound on the greatness of journalism past. I've said before that I do enjoy some of Cooper's reporting, namely on 60 Minutes, but giving him a show kind of ruins it. Once these cable folks get a show, they have to become a brand. Good reporting doesn't have to be snazzy though; it just has to be good.

U2's I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight. Sounds like a win-win situation. Actually sounds like my daily predicament. From their Letterman appearance earlier this year.

Bits and Bobs for 7.11.09

News of the Day:

• Pee in a bottle. That's what a family in Bristol have done in an effort to find their lost dog. Dogs have a crazy sense of smell, but unless it regularly smells your wee, this is futile, and gross?
• O-M-G. Monkeys show that you betta watch what you eat.
• A new bus system that could alleviate traffic congestion and carbon emissions. I like.
• Hey, sister, soul sister. Where nuns go to die.
  
• A.O. Scott takes on Bruno.
• Good deal, Nicholas Kristof. On responsibility and saving the world, one life at a time.
• Cheap! Cheap! Fun! Fun! No more designer duds for your 6 month old.
  

Soul Train Video of the Day - The Five Stairsteps and Ooh Child

Bits and Bobs for 7.9.09

News of the Day:

• GQ hits China. This could be so good, or so lame.
• When stars go to die. (Real stars.)
• It came from the sky: falling ice chunks.
• The BBC asks: Who is Neil Armstrong? American Hero.
• Apollo gadgets. Why are all the space news and Apollo commemorations coming from the UK?
• The Chinese government is laying the smack down once more no the Uighurs. The who?! An FYI about some of the major ethnic groups in China.
• French tourists suck. Didn't know there was something worse than stupid, but apparently it's arrogance.
  
• Larry King interviews MJ's doctor, and a journalist calls him out for doing a shitty job. Since when was Larry King a good interviewer? He doesn't prepare and prides himself on his ignorance of the guest and/or topic.
  
• In light of recent news that science has brought us synthetic sperm, The Times decides to forward 101 reasons why men are still necessary. This list was clearly written by a man as any woman knows most of these things are reasons NOT to have men around.
• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. The Catholic Church softens its stance on suicide. It's still a sin so don't kill yourself, but they are now counseling compassion rather than blame. Nice. Now show some compassion for gay people.
• To send your kids to Hogwarts or not to send your kids to Hogwarts. That is the inane question being bated around on The Times education blog, with links to even more detailed essays on the merits, and demerits, of said education. Most of the time my thesis makes me want to kick things, but at least I'm not writing about wizarding pedagogy.
  

I just discovered the Soul Train channel on Youtube, and it's one of the most brilliant things, ever. Awesome clothes, awesome hair, awesome dancing, but most of all, awesome voices. This is playing right now.

The O'Jays and Backstabbers:

Stuck in a moment.

Of course. U2 has the song for everything. Actually, half this song is advice a depressed person does not need. The end is nice though.

And if your way should falter
Along that stony pass
It's just a moment
This time will pass.

The Australian guy

Embarrassing. My so-called blog is quickly becoming a gallery of man. I haven't slept in at least 36 hours now, possbily more but I'm not lucid enough to do the arithmetic. I can still spot a hot guy, though I admit my eyes crossed a few times trying to pick a suitable picture. So the latest guy to be pasted on my wall o' fame is Chris Hemsworth, or Jim Kirk's equally hot pa, or the musclely kid from Home and Away, or that one Australian dude who will blow up on your screens in the next year or two. He has Thor in the pipeline, whatever that means. I'm guessing it's some comic book hero I should be privvy to? We shall see. In the meantime, massive eye candy because I refuse to act my age.


(And I still managed to get my Anderson Cooper on today.)