Haven't felt that much like doing a linkfest lately, but there were a few bits I came across this past week which I feel merit passing on to y'all:
• Looks like the Edwards for President campaign's loss is the blogosphere's gain, as Amanda (Pandagon) Marcotte and Melissa (Shakespeare's Sister) McEwan have been busy bees since their resignation announcements. Melissa discusses her Guardian comment piece, and Amanda's got an article in Salon, a piece up on HuffPo, and will be on Blog Talk Radio with Melissa and on TPM Cafe. (Bear with Pandagon whilst it undergoes a server change.) Joe at American Leftist probably has the best explanation I've seen so far for why the Edwards campaign didn't support Amanda and Melissa and dismiss their detractors more vigorously - "liberal" and "leftist" aren't the same thing. Most mainstream Democrats just aren't as progressive as many bloggers are, and we keep forgetting this to our continued disappointment (and, among others, Michael at Musing's Musings expresses that disappointment eloquently).
• Liberal racism rears its ugly head again. Surely folks can see how not cleaning up our own act lowers our credibility and moral high ground that much more when dealing with racists on the other end of the political spectrum! MB Williams has some choice words for John Aravosis regarding his reaction to the retirement of the University of Illinois mascot, Chief Illiniwek. It still amazes me how many folks can't see the difference between having a state or or place name derived from the people who inhabited that place and adopting the idea of those people into mascots (side by side with, you know, animals and suchlike). More from Chris Clarke and Jill at Feministe, who also has a good post on a band which suddenly realized - upon prompting by NYU students - that their name was racist. And Ann over at Feministing talks about a commercial campaign aired in India for a skin lightening cream, "where they help perpetuate the idea that whiter skin = more respect = success in life."
• Kenneth Quinnell compiles an impressive list of Republican-led voter suppression and dirty tricks from 2006. Makes it even more amazing that so many Democrats won, doesn't it? Ken also does an exhaustive analysis of plagiarism in stand-up comedy, but he's lost quite a bit of my respect for liking Carlos Mencia.
• Chris remembers Zeke and I cry all over again. And Morgaine paints her memory of Rhiannon, in case you're in the market for something to put on your wall. At one time I wanted to name all my cats after Fleetwood Mac songs, but for whatever reason that stopped after Gypsy as Phredd and Datsa came pre-named, and Amy didn't answer to anything but "Amy."
• Must-read celeb post on Huffington - Tim Robbins on our collective souls in the recent past and the foreseeable future.
• New rules, new rules! There haven't been any rule changes in major league baseball in over 10 years.
• For pity's sake, these nitwits are worried about giving kids a vocabulary lesson? Here you go, "it's the part of a boy dog that hangs down in the back." It's not brain surgery. They're there for all the world to see whether or not you talk about them.
Time to do some news-scouring for ComicMix items. (By the way, if you have any comics news use the "Contact Us" form linked to at the bottom of the ComicMix page.)
• Looks like the Edwards for President campaign's loss is the blogosphere's gain, as Amanda (Pandagon) Marcotte and Melissa (Shakespeare's Sister) McEwan have been busy bees since their resignation announcements. Melissa discusses her Guardian comment piece, and Amanda's got an article in Salon, a piece up on HuffPo, and will be on Blog Talk Radio with Melissa and on TPM Cafe. (Bear with Pandagon whilst it undergoes a server change.) Joe at American Leftist probably has the best explanation I've seen so far for why the Edwards campaign didn't support Amanda and Melissa and dismiss their detractors more vigorously - "liberal" and "leftist" aren't the same thing. Most mainstream Democrats just aren't as progressive as many bloggers are, and we keep forgetting this to our continued disappointment (and, among others, Michael at Musing's Musings expresses that disappointment eloquently).
• Liberal racism rears its ugly head again. Surely folks can see how not cleaning up our own act lowers our credibility and moral high ground that much more when dealing with racists on the other end of the political spectrum! MB Williams has some choice words for John Aravosis regarding his reaction to the retirement of the University of Illinois mascot, Chief Illiniwek. It still amazes me how many folks can't see the difference between having a state or or place name derived from the people who inhabited that place and adopting the idea of those people into mascots (side by side with, you know, animals and suchlike). More from Chris Clarke and Jill at Feministe, who also has a good post on a band which suddenly realized - upon prompting by NYU students - that their name was racist. And Ann over at Feministing talks about a commercial campaign aired in India for a skin lightening cream, "where they help perpetuate the idea that whiter skin = more respect = success in life."
• Kenneth Quinnell compiles an impressive list of Republican-led voter suppression and dirty tricks from 2006. Makes it even more amazing that so many Democrats won, doesn't it? Ken also does an exhaustive analysis of plagiarism in stand-up comedy, but he's lost quite a bit of my respect for liking Carlos Mencia.
• Chris remembers Zeke and I cry all over again. And Morgaine paints her memory of Rhiannon, in case you're in the market for something to put on your wall. At one time I wanted to name all my cats after Fleetwood Mac songs, but for whatever reason that stopped after Gypsy as Phredd and Datsa came pre-named, and Amy didn't answer to anything but "Amy."
• Must-read celeb post on Huffington - Tim Robbins on our collective souls in the recent past and the foreseeable future.
• New rules, new rules! There haven't been any rule changes in major league baseball in over 10 years.
• For pity's sake, these nitwits are worried about giving kids a vocabulary lesson? Here you go, "it's the part of a boy dog that hangs down in the back." It's not brain surgery. They're there for all the world to see whether or not you talk about them.
Time to do some news-scouring for ComicMix items. (By the way, if you have any comics news use the "Contact Us" form linked to at the bottom of the ComicMix page.)
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