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“In a world of blogging and pagerank, critiquing trolls gives them both literal and figurative capital. That’s frustrating as hell.”
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LOL! “Barack Obama is a PATRIOTIC AMERICAN. He has one HAND over his HEART at all times. He occasionally switches when one arm gets tired, which is almost never because he is STRONG.”
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“In the first six months of this year, 25% of the 56 gang-related slayings involved either blacks killing Latinos or vice versa. That compares with 13% for the same period last year.”
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“On Wednesday, the McCain camp launched “Campaign Cribs: Straight Talk Express” on Facebook, an application that allows users to take a video tour of McCain’s campaign bus.” McCain also redid Space Invaders. Who did he hire from MTV? – LDP
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“I knew there had to be at least a handful of reader letters, and I was ready to delve in…and I was reading to see if perhaps [Vogue] would issue an apology [for the LeBron cover]. I looked at the Editor’s Note…no sign.”
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“Her Majesty Mahealani Kahau and her government ministers hold court every day in a tent outside the palace of Hawaii’s last monarch, passing laws and discussing how to secure reparations for the Native Hawaiian people.”
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“If ever social change was propelled by photographs, it was during the civil rights movement.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
atlasien wrote:
I saw the Civil Rights photo exhibit at the High Museum a few weeks. Wow! The real standout for me was the sequence of photos capturing the attack on the Freedom Ride bus — the NYTimes article leads off with one of those photos.
When the bus stopped in Anniston, townspeople slashed its tires. Then the bus drove on the rims for six miles desperately trying to escape the townspeople, who followed in about forty cars. Eventually the posse caught up to the crippled bus, attacked the passengers and set the bus on fire. The riders were injured but amazingly none of them died that day.
Posted 23 Jun 2008 at 8:47 am ¶
DEAF FEMINIST PUNK!! wrote:
the civil rights photos were really awesome. I’d love to see more of those.
Posted 23 Jun 2008 at 10:24 am ¶
carmela wrote:
This is my fave:
Barack Obama has the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE tattooed on his stomach. It’s upside-down, so he can read it while doing sit-ups.
Posted 23 Jun 2008 at 8:38 pm ¶
Vodalus wrote:
wait, isn’t that just a recycled “Chuck Norris” legend?
Posted 25 Jun 2008 at 5:30 pm ¶