links for 2008-05-21
- Specifically, David Banda, the child Madonna adopted, is compared to an adopted monkey from the zoo. – LDP
- “[The] latest foray into pseudoscience: he has declared American superiority to be genetic, encoded in our good old American DNA. [...] Oh, except for those who are descended from slaves.”
- “”Houghton Mifflin Harcourt did not nor would we ever authorize or approve this use of the Curious George character, which we find offensive and utterly out of keeping with the values Curious George represents,” said Richard Blake, the company’s spokesman
- “US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama became an honorary member of a native American tribe today and promised policies to help tribal people if he wins the White House in November.”
- “Indians have doubled their presence at U.S. campuses in the last decade. Numbering more than 83,000 last year, they are the largest group of international students in the country, overtaking the Chinese in 2002, surveys show.”
- “The reviews may not dwell on the Indians, but check out the poster below. What a surprise to see spearchucking savages chasing Indy…not.”
- “It was after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that Ms. Novak, who used to work not far from the World Trade Center, first took an interest in the Arab world. “I thought it would be a good idea to write in the English-language Arabic press on subjects we
- “Old-guard Wasps appear to feel threatened by the newly rich and their growing influence around the city, and dismiss new money as “tasteless and gauche.” When discussing vastly rich people who are Jewish, it is not uncommon for them to use anti-Semit
- “As I’ve pointed out before, it’s odd how white Americans were generally upset over the remarks of an African American candidate’s African American minister, but they tended to overlook the racism of Hillary Clinton’s own remarks on race.”
- “White adds, “Readers don’t come to Cosmo to learn about the genital mutilation of women in the Third World.” – See, this is why I love Cosmo. They are unrepentant. Fuck you and pass the glazed donuts for dick horseshoe! – LDP
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