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Interesting Perspective on Arizona Law

What I suspect further polling will reveal is that a significant element of public support derives from a general empathy and encouragement Americans want to express toward Arizonans for doing something--anything--in the face of Washington's continued foot-dragging. This is essentially the point--or, rather, one of the points--the highly-controversial Arizona anti-immigration icon Sheriff Joe Arpaio made this week: If nothing else, Arizona's actions now force Washington's hands. But that does not necessarily mean Americans favor rounding up and/or profiling people for deportation, or that they are xenophobic racists. Instead, some of them surely are tired of and frustrated by inaction on the national level, of more talk than action--and they approve of the fact that Arizona this week sent a shot across Washington's bow, which it undoubtedly did.

- Gallup: Plurality of Americans Like Arizona Immigration Law

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interesting perspective on the oklahoma laws.

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zuh? ft. puppet chang and the statue.

Oh My Gaga

A replacement for “Oh My God” (O.M.G) among China’s young Internet users.

now for something a little lighter....

A Fort Worth, Texas police officer has been caught smoking marijuana while wearing his badge and uniform in his patrol car.

arizona is not racist. they promise.

The Arizona House of Representatives recently approved a provision requiring President Barack Obama to prove that he is a natural-born citizen before the state agrees to place him on the ballot in 2012. He must have his birth certificate approved by the state's attorney general in order to run in the next election.

Political blog, go!

The Oklahoma Legislature voted Tuesday to override the governor’s vetoes of two abortion measures, one of which requires women to undergo an ultrasound and listen to a detailed description of the fetus before getting an abortion.

Though other states have passed similar measures requiring women to have ultrasounds, Oklahoma’s law goes further, mandating that a doctor or technician set up the monitor so the woman can see it and describe the heart, limbs and organs of the fetus. No exceptions are made for rape and incest victims.

What made me almost spit my coffee all over my computer is this blatant contradiction.

Opponents argue that the law will protect doctors who purposely mislead a woman to keep her from choosing an abortion. But the bill’s sponsors maintain that it merely prevents lawsuits by people who wish, in hindsight, that the doctor had counseled them to abort a disabled child.

Sounds like they came with a decent reason for this, right? Nope.

“This is a good day for the cause of life,” said State Senator Glenn Coffee, the Republican majority leader.

So, list of states to never visit:

1) Arizona
2) Oklahoma

Not that I wanted to visit either of these places to begin with.

Strict Abortion Measures Enacted in Oklahoma

Robinson nails it

Activists for Latino and immigrant rights -- and supporters of sane governance -- held weekend rallies denouncing the new law and vowing to do everything they can to overturn it. But where was the Tea Party crowd? Isn't the whole premise of the Tea Party movement that overreaching government poses a grave threat to individual freedom? It seems to me that a law allowing individuals to be detained and interrogated on a whim -- and requiring legal residents to carry identification documents, as in a police state -- would send the Tea Partyers into apoplexy. Or is there some kind of exception if the people whose freedoms are being taken away happen to have brown skin and might speak Spanish?

- Arizona's new immigration law is an act of vengeance

This week is full of interesting articles

The Pill at 50: Sex, Freedom and Paradox

The most modern story in all of America

An anal vibrator believed to be a bomb caused the California Highway Patrol to briefly evacuate its South Lake Tahoe area office on April 7.

why haven't i been watching rupauls drag race my entire life?

The more you know

Ending the Slavery Blame-Game

I was not aware of the role that Africans played in the slave trade prior to 1807, so this was a pretty eye-opening article.

GOProud and Log Cabin Republicans

A Conservative Conundrum

I have always thought that if the GOP dropped evangelicals and embraced gay rights, they would absolutely kill the Democrats in elections.

what if the tea party was black?

omar little

Spoilers, kinda

Someone left a Call Sheet for one of the final episodes of Lost in a restaurant...

I can't really figure out this one

Cops: Seminole man robbed banks wearing Hollywood mask

"A former Tampa Bay resident is accused of wearing a Hollywood-style mask to disguise his race while robbing five banks in Ohio.

Detectives say 30-year-old Conrad Zdzierak used a mask known as "The Player" to alter his appearance and make him look African-American."

soooo hows your baby......

last night was pretty amazing.
and we found out that the smoke monster was, in fact, christian shephard.
i started re-reading the paper i wrote on the first season last semester. i've included an excerpt below because its actually pretty fitting for last nights episode:

Kumar gets robbed on 420.

NBC news thought it would be appropriate it start out a story on armed robbery with a pun. i can't say i disagree in this instance:
Guess Kumar should've stayed at White Castle... or at least the White House. Actor Kal Penn -- who recently spent a year working for the Obama administration -- was robbed at gunpoint early this morning in the District.

Additional reasons to not go to Arizona

A hurried political analysis, so there are some generalizations:

John McCain is in a competitive senate race with J.D. Hayworth, a man who has this creepy-incredulous-used-car-saleman-sex-offender look to him and actually said that gay marriage would lead to man-horse marriage.

Anyways, to combat the Hayworth-mobile, McCain has had to swing super far to the right to appeal to the Tea Party/anti-immigrant crowd and now supports a bill that essentially allows for the racial profiling of Hispanics throughout Arizona. While on the O'Reilly Factor, McCain struggled to explain coherently why he supports bill, and at some point states that illegal immigrants intentionally cause traffic accidents on the highway.

The sad part is that you kind of have to support McCain, because the alternative is so bad.

I will not be your father...

Obama gets heckled...

...for not repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell. I wish more Obama hecklers were like this.

from complex magazine

guerilla feminism.

velvet is a strip club in downtown richmond. if you've ever been to shockoe bottom you probably know velvet by the mural of lady di painted on building beside it, though last i checked someone had painted over it. anywho, velvet is pretty much the worst place ever for a few reasons- the owner, same moore, is a class A piece of shit, for starters. he has plead guilty to contributing to the delinquency of and having sex with (read: raping) a minor. oh yea, he filmed it too. he's also been accused of threatening richmond police. in february of this year, the club lost its liquor liscense for allowing, not surprisingly, underage drinking, among a slew of other allegations. also *fun fact*- Bob McDonnell has just appointed Moore's former defense attorney as the chairman of the ABC board. conflict of interest much?
velvet also has recruiters walk around VCU's campus to find "talent"- i was handed a card in between classes one day. clearly i went to college in hopes that a strip club recruiter would find me on campus! anyway they have a fleet of these trucks with naked women on the side that drive around the city. the worst part is that the "horn" is programmed to sound like a wolf whistling and they have a loud speaker to aid in their frequent acts of street harassment. almost every woman i know that lives in the city has an encounter with one of these vehicles. needless to say, the women of richmond have spoken. these pictures make my heart smile.

pictures by rumors.

Ke$ha is a poor man's Lady Gaga

I was writing an incredibly lengthy defense of Lady Gaga and why no one, especially Ke$ha, should try to emulate her. The videos speak for themselves.

Edit: The second performance was also a copy of the Sia performance on Later...with Jools Holland. Ke$ha is also a poor man's Sia.

so i may have posted this already

Danny Glover arrested in Md.

GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (AP) -- Actor Danny Glover and 11 others have been arrested during a labor union protest at the headquarters of a food service company.

lol awkward

"An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of black pepper."

Obama asked the Secretary of Health and Human Services to set up rules to make sure all hospitals that participate in the government-funded Medicare and Medicaid programs respect the rights of patients to designate who may visit them.

It said hospitals could not deny visitation privileges on the basis of sexual origin, race, religion or gender identity.

"Every day across America, patients are denied the kindness and caring of a loved one at their sides -- whether in a sudden medical emergency or a prolonged hospital stay," Obama wrote.

He cited widows or widowers without children, members of religious orders as examples of people who have been unable to choose the people they want to be at their side in the hospitals that follow a relatives-only visitation policy.

"Also uniquely affected are gay and lesbian Americans who are often barred from the bedsides of the partners with whom they may have spent decades of their lives -- unable to be there for the person they love and unable to act as a legal surrogate if their partner is incapacitated," he said.

Obama said he was taking the measures to expand visitation rights to "ensure that patients can receive compassionate care and equal treatment during their hospital stays."

He also ordered hospitals participating in Medicare or Medicaid to ensure that all patients' advance directives, which include appointing someone to make healthcare decisions if necessary, are respected.

radiobrien

Somalia!

Somali stations air animal noises to protest extremists' music ban.

Speaking of Somalia...

i agree completely.

HBO renews Treme after the first episode.

A preemptive grumble

"Jeggings" are unacceptable.

apparently...

and more timeless wisdom from charlie kelley.

i'ma blow out your blog candle

So Tina Fey was on SNL and it was actually kinda funny

Neo-Confederate History Month

A very interesting take on Confederate History Month.

Gifs of Popular Rappers

The Greatest Television Moment Ever

Billie Joe Armstrong explaining gravity bongs to Bill Maher. Start watching at 0:50. It gets amazing around 1:55.

The Greatest Television Moment Ever

Fox has to be some be some big performance art project

This explains so much.

Lil' Wayne's address in prison

Eric M. Taylor Center (EMTC)
Dwayne Carter NYSID# 02616544L
10-10 Hazen Street
East Elmhurst, NY 11370

I'm 95% sure I'm going to write him a letter.

you'd laugh too

grumblecakes gives his final(?) theories on lost

So, to be perfectly honest, I'm not a big fan of Lost right now. It's not the plot or the way they seem to close up loopholes in a rather arbitrary fashion. It is that I've given about 4 years of my life to this show (I watched seasons 1-3 on DVD) and now that it is over, I am asking myself "Why the hell did I watch this?" I have tried to avoid theorizing too much as well, because the show is over in a few months and what's the point on theorizing when the end is in sight?

But still, I have two theories to present.

Theory #1: "The Sickness" will only affect people who feel an immense loss.

So think about. Claire lost Aaron, she goes crazy. Sayid lost Shannon and Nadia, he goes crazy. Rousseau lost Alex, she goes crazy (though was she ever friends with smoke dude?). All of Bizarro Locke's friends, much like Bizarro Locke himself, lost something big and are now crazy. Sawyer, Kate, and Jin, for whatever reason, are still good because their shit is a little more together.

Theory #2: Jacob is an asshole.

So as he explained, Jacob brings people to the island to prove Bizarro Locke wrong. So you could be living your life, doing your thing, and then Jacob's like "Oh I'll just drop this guy on a freaky island where there is a very good chance this guy will be eaten by some mystery creature he cannot possibly comprehend. But it's cool, I'm Jacob." Mr. Eko died to settle a bet. Gee, thanks Jacob.

This is good, I guess?

a Glee parody featuring the roots and the cast of parks and rec.

this is probably the funniest thing i've seen in a while.

this caption is perfect.

This makes me want to marry Betty Draper more than I already do.

wanda sykes is hilarious.

this is what happens when democrats get lazy in state elections.

Bob McDonnell issued a proclamation declaring April to be confederate history month.
this is less than a month after he essentially gave the thumbs up to state discrimination against gay people.
most politicians try to hide the fact that they're bigots. this guy fucking celebrates it.

jerssayyy shore preview....

Long overdue

A fashionable response to the unfortunate phrase "No Homo."

densest/scariest social movement ever.

Mixtape Monday

The Roots do a bunch of J Dilla songs. For those of you not in the know, J Dilla (1974 - 2006) was a producer for A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, The Pharcyde, Common, Erykah Badu, Busta Rhymes, Janet Jackson, The Roots, Funkmaster Flex, Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Four Tet, MF Doom, Ghostface Killah, and Raekwon. So basically, all of Tron's best friends.

And he produced the song "Love" on Erykah Badu's new album.

I'm still pretty upset about not being a single lady

so...i read a lot of theories about lost online. because i'm a nerd and its an excellent way to procrastinate. i usually don't put too much thought into them but i really like this one