January 27, 2012
"The office of East Haven’s mayor was blasted with prank phone calls and a delivery of hundreds of tacos Thursday after his now-famous quip that he would address accusations of anti-Latino bias by eating tacos, a remark that left emotions raw in the town’s large Hispanic community."

—

(via muppetpants)

If I say I want tacos, will people send me free tacos?

(via jasencomstock)

Oh man racists get FREE TACOS too??

(Source: newyork.cbslocal.com, via jasencomstock)

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January 27, 2012
"It is unclear precisely how much money Paul made from his newsletters, but during the years he was publishing them, he reduced his debts and substantially increased his net worth, according to his congressional and presidential disclosure reports. In 1984, he reported debt of up to $765,000, most of which was gone by 1995, when he reported a net worth of up to $3.3 million. Last year, he reported a net worth up to $5.2 million."

— Why are we not ALL writing racist newsletters?

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(Notes: 23)
  
January 26, 2012
jawnita: ALSO, can we stop creating this false dichotomy between Portland and Brooklyn? People are comparing a small-sized city with a legitimately white-majority population, to some myopic media perception of maybe like one or two neighborhoods in THE MOST POPULATED BOROUGH OF NEW YORK CITY. Brooklyn has 3 fucking million people living in it, and Mr and Ms Media Reducto over here are reducing it to a few banal and dated stereotypes about the privileged white people who live on Bedford Avenue and/or Park Slope. GUESS WHAT, Williamsburg existed before “hipsters” moved there. This borough is 42% white, 35% Latino, 34% Black, AND ALL LOVE. Whereas Portland’s community of color is largely relegated to outlying suburbs and neighborhoods still affected by the segregating effects of redlining in the 1940s, and is stuck with a “liberal” white community that is so scared to admit it might be racist that its lack of dialogue and overt white-niceness towards blacks and Latinos there completely otherizes them in a totally condescending way. ANYWAY! STOP SAYING THE TERM “BROOKLANDIA,” and also PORTLAND IS NOT A UTOPIA FOR NOT-WHITE PEOPLE. Yep, pretty much this

jawnita:

ALSO, can we stop creating this false dichotomy between Portland and Brooklyn? People are comparing a small-sized city with a legitimately white-majority population, to some myopic media perception of maybe like one or two neighborhoods in THE MOST POPULATED BOROUGH OF NEW YORK CITY. Brooklyn has 3 fucking million people living in it, and Mr and Ms Media Reducto over here are reducing it to a few banal and dated stereotypes about the privileged white people who live on Bedford Avenue and/or Park Slope. GUESS WHAT, Williamsburg existed before “hipsters” moved there. This borough is 42% white, 35% Latino, 34% Black, AND ALL LOVE. Whereas Portland’s community of color is largely relegated to outlying suburbs and neighborhoods still affected by the segregating effects of redlining in the 1940s, and is stuck with a “liberal” white community that is so scared to admit it might be racist that its lack of dialogue and overt white-niceness towards blacks and Latinos there completely otherizes them in a totally condescending way. ANYWAY! STOP SAYING THE TERM “BROOKLANDIA,” and also PORTLAND IS NOT A UTOPIA FOR NOT-WHITE PEOPLE.

Yep, pretty much this

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(Notes: 193)
  
Filed under: portland: even whiter than minneapolis! 
January 23, 2012

(Source: celebraterickysargulesh)

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(Notes: 106)
  
January 16, 2012

Just awoke from a terrible nightmare in which a message of doctrinaire economic conservatism combined with condescending social liberalism only resonated with a handful of elites, thank god our president is still John Huntsman

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(Notes: 22)
  
January 12, 2012
Ricky Gervais has just faxed me some topical political jokes

“Mitt Romney says we should only discus income inequality in ‘quiet rooms.’ You know, like a cinema playing ‘The Beaver.’”

“People say, ‘ooh, Ron Paul, he’s a bit of a nutter,’ just because he wants to legalize hard drugs and prostitution, but I don’t see what’s so unreasonable about letting Charlie Sheen balance the budget.”

[Something about Tom Cruise buying “doggie sunglasses”]

“Rick Santorum is stupid because he believes in God.”

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(Notes: 23)
  
January 12, 2012
ONE STEP CLOSER

ONE STEP CLOSER

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(Notes: 26)
  
Filed under: which funny tweet will they honor 
January 12, 2012
Arthur Brisbane to launch Sophist version of “Angry Birds”

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(Notes: 12)
  
January 12, 2012
jasencomstock: mothernaturenetwork: Kristof is experimenting with using social media entertainment to educate and inspire a new generation. ‘It will be vaguely analogous to FarmVille. You’ll have a village, and in order to nurture this village, you’ll have to look after the women and girls in the village. Actions in the game will also have real-world effects. In other words, there will be schools and refugee camps that will benefit if you do well in the game.’ I’d play it “David Brooks to launch lazy, condescending version of ‘The Sims’”

jasencomstock:

mothernaturenetwork:

Kristof is experimenting with using social media entertainment to educate and inspire a new generation.

‘It will be vaguely analogous to FarmVille. You’ll have a village, and in order to nurture this village, you’ll have to look after the women and girls in the village. Actions in the game will also have real-world effects. In other words, there will be schools and refugee camps that will benefit if you do well in the game.’

I’d play it

“David Brooks to launch lazy, condescending version of ‘The Sims’”

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(Notes: 122)
  
January 11, 2012

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(Notes: 12)
  
Filed under: salute 
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