Allen vs. Webb

So I’m lis­ten­ing to an older clip from CNN, and I have to say this. To ask George Allen whether he is Jewish or not is a scum­bag ques­tion. The “he’s just a celebrity” excuse is lam­en­ta­bly lame, and I for one got the impres­sion that Arianna Huffington would just as soon the per­son who …

Threat Levels

From Wired, via Boing-Boing: Look closely at the “Green” threat level. Yes, you are read­ing that cor­rectly. As a res­i­dent of America, you are more likely to be shot by a police offi­cer than killed in any type of ter­ror­ist attack. Now fac­tor in the well-documented racial bias in law enforce­ment strate­gies and arrest rates, …

Armed Madhouse

Yesterday, I read Greg Palast’s Armed Madhouse. On the one hand, it’s nice to know that I intu­itively under­stood the neo-conservative inva­sion plan and rea­son — the so-called “Plan B” — well enough to describe it as “glob­al­iza­tion by force” in a paper I wrote for a Political Economy course. It’s also nice to know the vaunted-but-ignored State Department …

Delinking AmSam

I’ve delinked American Samizdat after a racist post was not only pub­lished, but defended by both the orig­i­nal poster and another con­trib­u­tor to the site. My exact com­ments on the racism are avail­able on the offend­ing AmSam post, for those who are inter­ested. Supposedly the same post got them banned from Daily Kos. I had …