Election Results commentary

Hmm. Congratulations Sen. Clinton. You did very well. I do hope that you refrain from continuing the negative attacks though and start opening up with issues like education and the environment. I've already heard enough about health care. Something new for a change? In any case, your move, Sen. Obama.

I like this though. People are invested in their future, as can be seen from the mammoth voting turn-outs. More of this kind of stuff, please, less fear-mongering.

Of interest

Transformational politics

Grins happily.

The TV Tropes Wiki? Is ridiculously hilarious. And it covers everything from fanfiction to anime to television shows to movies. Go thou and be entertained!

And I commit blasphemy

For some reason, I do not particularly like John Barrowman. I find him boring, though I do like his "Captain Jack" character. he honestly comes across as an irritating child to me. And I have really tried to like him. Honestly.

"Dirty Laundry" By Don Henley

Dirty Laundry - Don Henley

I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something that I can use
People love it when you lose
They love dirty laundry

Well I could have been an actor
But I wound up here
I just have to look good
I don't have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
We need dirty laundry

Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em all around

We got the bubble-headed bleach blonde
Comes on at five
She can tell ya 'bout the plane crash
With a gleam in her eye
It's int'resting when people die
Give us dirty laundry

Can we film the operation
Is the head dead yet
Y'know the boys in the newsroom
Got a running bet
Get the widow on the set
We need dirty laundry

You don't really need to find out
What's going on
You don't want to know just
How far it's gone
Just leave well enough alone
Keep your dirty laundry

Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em where they sit
Kick 'em all around

Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers
In ev'rybody's pies
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry

We can do the innuendo
We can dance and sing
When it's said and done we haven't
Told you a thing
We all know that crap is king
Give us dirty laundry

Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em all around

Dear God! My FAVORITE LOVE SONG!!!

The Pet Shop Boys "Home and Dry"

God alone knows WHAT they were thinking about the rats, here's a more palatable fanmade vid.:

So March is Women's Month (Part Two)

Another link dump with the rest of Black Herstory series by Dairy of an Anxious Black Woman

Nikki Giovanni: Poetess, Black Activist, Professor at Virginia Tech

Katherine Dunham: Anthropologist, Dancer, Choreographer

Margaret Garner: A Runaway Slave who, when pursued by slave cathcers, tried to kill her family to avoid their return to slavery

African Queens

Drana, Delia, Celia:Some slave women worth remembering

Billie Holiday:Singer of the blues

Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield:The First Black Opera Singer

Marie-Joseph Angelique:Canadian Slavery and the burning of Old Montreal

Daughters of the Dust

Claudia Jones: Trinidadian-born Marxist and Feminist

Lorna Simpson: Photographer

Black Feminist legacies: From the Past to the Now, From here, to abroad

Who speaks for Sally Hemmings?

Audre Lourde:Feminist, Queer, Poetess, Black Activist

Go thou and read!

From: WOC Phd comes posts that are chock full of info on WOC feminist for Women's History Month. I could die of teh happy.

Women of Colour Feminists in their own right

Af-American Feminism-The Combahee River Collective Statement

Arab-American Feminists:Understanding the Other Sister

Asian/APIA feminism

Indigenous Feminists

Oh God! Damn and blast it all!!!

The short version, via shati


5:37 pm - and justice for all.
Late at night on February 3rd, a student at my college was stalked, harassed, threatened, and called racial slurs by two men (not students, and unconnected with the college) lurking outside his window. Which they then smashed. The student -- Jason -- called the police, but before they arrived, the two men busted into the dorm and attacked Jason, breaking his nose. He defended himself, and the men were stabbed (no one's said whether the men brought the knife in with them or whether it came from somewhere else); all three of them had to be transported to a hospital afterward. When the police arrived, they restrained and handcuffed Jason, who is of Jamaican descent, before finding out that he was the one who had called them for help.

Jason has no previous criminal record -- instead he's got a record of social service and volunteer work. He's been arrested on multiple charges, including two counts of assault with intent to murder. At first he was the only one charged; since then, one of his attackers has been charged with hate crimes and disorderly conduct, and the other still has not been charged at all. Both are white.

There's a blog up called Justice for Jason. It has more information on the incident, on the legal fallout, and on how to help Jason's family with the legal costs of his defense, which could be as much as $15,000.

Window repair: probably a couple hundred at most.
Legal defense: possibly as much $15,000.
Bearing the legal brunt of your own racist victimization: priceless.

ETA: Feel free to copy any part of this post if you want to help spread the word. (Which would be very appreciated.)

Full Details at the blog

For more in the makes-you-wanna-holla department..

Voter Suppression in Ohio

Are we surprised? WTF will be going on the general election if this shit is happening in the goddamn primaries? Spread the word!

In some earlier entry, I was screaming about the REAL ID ACT

and someone asked me what it was. I never answered. I'm sorry about that. Here's the information...The REAL ID ACT

See also :Real ID ACT is a Real mess

Also go here from some truly disturbing stuff that's going on under our nose:papers first

And really? These are issues that should be discussed in this election. Will Obama, Clinton or McCain abolish the Dept. of Homeland Security and put the kibosh on the growing resemblance to fascism and Orwellian folly?


FBI admits to spying on us

Best. Blog Entry. Name. EVAR.

Th e Unfolding of the Supercalifragislistic FubarDemocratus

And spot on political analysis too.

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Petshop Boys "Being Boring"

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L'ame Immortelle "Judgement"