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Uh, we win?
(Oops! I just realized that I’d forgotten to actually post this after saving it as a draft for two days.) Hey all, I’m Dexter, and I’m an angry, if somewhat tired, brown queer living in Vancouver, BC, fresh from 5 years in New York City and Washington, DC. I am honoured to rant alongside Jack.…
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The NY dailies: never flagging in their ability to annoy
During my morning commute, I regularly get assaulted by images and headlines from NY’s astoundingly obnoxious dailies, the Post and the Daily News. I generally do my best to avoid those papers, but with so many people holding them up in front of my face on the F train on my way into work, I…
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Yet another reason to hate FOX
As if we didn’t have enough reasons to hate FOX… They’ve gone and cancelled Arrested Development, which I would put right up there with Desparate Housewives as one of the best shows currently on network television. (I can’t talk about cable since I haven’t had it in years.) Those bastards! WARNING TO DESPARATE HOUSEWIVES FANS:…
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The downward spiral of the Civil Rights Division
Seems that the recent behavior of the Justice Department is part of a greater trend towards conservatism and a not-so-gradual rollback of what little progress has been made towards true equality and civil rights. From Prometheus 6: Civil Rights Focus Shift Roils Staff At Justice: The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which has enforced the…
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The bastardization of civil rights
Few organizations make me as angry and disgusted as the Center for “Equal Opportunity”. Their website claims that their mission is to “to the promotion of colorblind equal opportunity and racial harmony.” How do they work towards this mission? Primarily, by promoting a twisted bastardization of civil rights thinking and legislation through lawsuits against colleges…
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Slightly disturbing; also, the required post-election snippet
Today, while reading this ABC news article about al Qaeda’s attempted justification of the bombings in Jordan, I glanced down at the bottom of the screen and noticed the “Most Sent Headlines” section: Can Your Cat Make You Crazy? Cat Show Plans Memorial Service for Dog Warm, Fuzzy Winter Bra Unveiled in Japan Apparently, ABC…
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Voting mishaps to avoid
First off – I hope y’all either voted already, or are planning to later! As the social justice calendar on my wall says, “Vote, but realize it is a small part of being a citizen and creating a truly democratic system.” Hell yeah. Also, for New Yorkers who have not yet voted: note that the…
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Avian flu: who’s really at fault
This morning, I stumbled across this article on avian flu and the US poultry industry’s response to it: Asian governments must provide financial incentives and shut down as many backyard poultry farms as possible to halt the spread of bird flu, a leading U.S. poultry industry official said. “We cannot control migratory birds but we…
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More Lies from BushCo
From Reuters AlertNet: A captured al Qaeda operative who told U.S. authorities that Iraq had trained al Qaeda members to use unconventional weapons was identified as a probable liar months before the Bush administration began using his claims to make its case for war … “Saddam’s regime is intensely secular and is wary of Islamic…
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Legislating love
From my friend Dex: He looks too ‘aloof’ in photographs, so Immigration rejected his wife. This is a Canadian incident, but similarly racist, xenophobic, and just plain heartbreaking applications of immigration laws occur in the US every day. As Dex put it, “this is what happens when the government tries to legislate love.” Speaking of…