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“The intolerance towards female bloggers, therefore, is not just a disincentive towards female participation online, but it is an attack on feminism, itself.”
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“Looks like BBDO, the agency for the $55 million Diet PEPSI Max launch has taken a LOT of creative license from a commercial for an Argentina Telecom by the Agulla & Baccetti agency.”
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Iran has rejected a request by United States filmmaker Oliver Stone to make a film about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the website of the news network Press TV reported on Sunday.
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“Glamour is planning a book based on the “Global Diary” columns Marian has written for the magazine. The book, In Search of Hope…will include a foreword written by Jolie. Glamour says all of the proceeds from In Search of Hope will be donated to charity
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“British author Salman Rushdie and his wife Padma Lakshmi , host of TV show ” Top Chef ,” are getting divorced, his spokeswoman said on Monday, just two weeks after he was awarded a controversial knighthood.”
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(fuck yeah!) “What’s red, white and blue — and made in China? A move is on in state legislatures to ensure that the flags folks will be flying and buying this Independence Day were made on this fruited plain.”
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“The way we deal with problems on a smaller level often affects the problematic situations we have on a larger level. It becomes difficult to view isolated incidences of racial inequality…without considering the larger framework…”
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“Yi Jianlian became the sixth overall pick in the NBA Draft last Thursday when the Milwaukee Bucks practically squealed his name to David Stern.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Angel H. wrote:
Carmen: Tag!
Posted 07 Jul 2007 at 10:46 pm ¶
LayLowLaw wrote:
Re: Laws require flags to be born in USA
Let me see if I have this straight: American flags fall under international trade agreements at the national level, while states are free to erect protectionist barriers for the same goods made overseas by individuals who don’t enjoy labor or human rights protections in the process of their manufacture for people in the target market who actively voice their preference to deny those same workers the right of entry to enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness under the simultaneous guise of “free market competition” *and* “homeland security”? If the biggest honor, indeed, that anyone can give the flag to have it made by American workers in the United States of America, I’ll be sure to tell all those who use its image in their cocktails and their swimsuits on the beach to not go the way of the supposed “desecrators” from China indeed. Geesh.
Posted 08 Jul 2007 at 2:51 pm ¶
Lyonside wrote:
>I’ll be sure to tell all those who use its image in their cocktails and their swimsuits on the beach to not go the way of the supposed “desecrators” from China indeed. Geesh.
I’ll go one step farther and say that all those flags in the gutters and highway sides that have flipped off those flimsy plastic poles are also a desecration. As is any flag left in the rain or unlighted after dark (hello, the 150 flags plunked in the mulch of my apartment complex).
Like any “flag” law or ammendment, it usually has good intentions (usually…) , but it’s used as a distraction at best and a tool of oppression as worst. People should respect any flag because of what it stands for (if they respect what that is – that’s a free-will option, not a condition of citizenship), not because of the fabric or production aspects.
A few quotes:
“I am a patriot and I love my country because my country is all I know.” – Little Steven, “I Am A Patriot”
“America is a pawn-shop window with decals of Old Glory made by children in China” – Roy Zimmerman, “America Is”
“Support your country always and your government when it deserves it.” – Mark Twain
Posted 09 Jul 2007 at 11:34 am ¶