I may have posted this before. I don’t care, it still is haunting and somewhat sad that we may lose some of these cultures in the name of progress.
Category Archives: Rants & Raves
A rare insight into Kowloon Walled City | Mail Online
Amazing images of a place where someone once thought it necessary to cram people together so tightly.
House Rules | This American Life
This is sobering. We deserve a country better than this.
Fan death: Korean moms think that your electric fan will kill you. – Slate Magazine
An entertaining, enlightening, and bizarre look at cultural legends. Enjoy.
Robert De Posada Tells Latino Voters: Vote For Third Party Or Don’t Vote At All
The same clown who told Latinos not to vote in the last election (and now has a made-up story to explain *that*) now wants you to vote for Gary Johnson. You know, because voting for a third party candidate still means you aren’t voting for Obama.
And we all know what Romney thinks of Latinos, so obviously asking for folks to vote for him is a non-starter.
What jerks. What anti-democratic, dirty, foul people they are.
Back to School with Punkle Henry (Rollins)
Interracial Marriage: The Changing Face Of Seeing Race : NPR
An old article I had saved and never got around to posting. Relevant given the uproar over gay marriage these days. The same people who can’t stand seeing same sex couples want to celebrate their love are the same ilk who couldn’t stand a mixed race couple either. Here is how mass media helped blunt their opposition in an earlier age.
Michael Ware on the Things War Makes You See – The Daily Beast
Michael Ware always came off as more than a bit smug. That said, you kind of got the impression he earned the right to look like he had been laughing Death in the face.
That may be why watching him bare his soul a bit is all the more tragic.
Hopefully he – and everyone who has seen the things he has – find the help they need and the peace they are looking for.
Say it in a whistle – CBS News Video
This week’s Sunday Morning was awesome. Expect quite a few links from it.
U.S. News – Election, economy spark explosive growth of militias
Militia membership is on the rise and yet no one seems to be doing a whole hell of a lot to reign in these domestic terrorists.
Considering many of them hate the government and positively are abhorred by the reality that the President is not a white man, you’d think that would be enough to round ’em up and throw away the key. I mean, just a glance at the violence promised on their websites should be all the threat you need. I can’t walk up to someone and promised to pop a bullet into their children’s heads without *at least* a future discussion with a law enforcement official, yet these folks seem to be able to do the same and much, much worse all the time.
Why? What do we gain by allowing this? What does it say when we pick and choose who the law applies to?