The BBC offers an apology for it’s Top Gear talent being racist pricks.
It offers an apology but a good reading of the press release shows that it doesn’t actually deliver an apology.
When did our society turn into one where mumbling words that sound like you recognize someone was offended by something you did, but don’t care to find yourself at fault pass as an actual apology?
I plan to raise my kid better than that. I hope the rest of you do too.
Minorities are making big numeric gains across the US. This might explain why even progressive states like Minnesota have suddenly turned into racist, gun-toting people scared of their own shadows.
Look, the US is going to be less white no matter what happens. If Caucasians don’t want to sow any more ill will against populations who already have legitimate grudges, this might be the time to be less vindictive and violent; not more.
I heard this great story about Indian chai yesterday.
Why is it that I can learn and hear more interesting things listening to 45 minutes of the BBC than I can from any equal or greater amount of time listening to American media?
Want to know how to make chai? Here is one take on it.
Nice to know that airport security technology isn’t just focused on how to best visually rape you. A bit more here but the video is the main part of the story:
From what I’ve heard thus far, the Extremes series has been very eye-opening and I hope it continues to show the world’s stark differences in both good and bad lights. As the corruption edition shows, not everything is as easy or as black and white as people like to portray them.
Someone put a bomb in Spokane, Washington but you haven’t heard about it. It was set to kill the marchers in an MLK Day parade.
The FBI is calling it an act of domestic terrorism but you still haven’t heard about it.
Spokane has a history of White Supremacist activity, and Rachel Maddow goes into it (and wonders who no one is talking about this).
According to this report, the FBI thinks it IS tied to a white power hate group.
Some more on this.
White Racists trying to blow up a Unity March. You’ll never hear a word of this on FAUXNews.
How does your state rank as tolerant of others? Check this list here and find out.
We moved from #20 to #7 so not bad I suppose.
The BBC did a story on tolerance recently that I keep meaning to link you to. So, finally, here you go.
Given their outrage over the past few days, it appears that conservatives NEVER condone violence or would trafiic in, say, making gun components that would encourage the assassination of an American president. Much less a black President.
What you see there is a replacement magazine receiver for a M-16/AR-15 produced in South Carolina by a company so energized by nitwit Representative Joe Wilson, a Republican of course, that they went out and made semi-automatic and automatic machine guns parts.
Why? Hell, I dunno. They might be assassination loving traitors. Or just idiots.
And yes, making a gun part that makes mention of an elected representative making false accusations against the President is nothing short of a call to arms.
More at Mother Jones, ThinkProgress, and a South Carolina weekly on this story barely getting noticed elsewhere.
Though kudos to Lawrence O’Donnell for staying on top of it.
When even Giffords’ dad blames violent conservatives, maybe you might want to give this theory a chance to be discussed.
I know it is considered polite not to accuse people of poor behavior even when they are in the midst of doing so. But most of my adult life I’ve heard conservatives make harsh jokes about the Clintons, insulting their daughter, mocking each other, hating that Barack Obama is black and President.
Hell, even McCain was attacked by Bush, saying his adopted daughter was his love child from when he was a prisoner in Vietnam. I’m no McCain fan, but that is low. And the fact that he thought he could only continue his career by laughing it off and literally embracing Bush afterwards says a lot about his lack of self-respect and about how shitty things are in the Republican party in this regard.
So yeah, if Mr. Giffords wants to blame Sarah Palin, et al for his daughter having been shot in the head, I am inclined to let the man have his opinion. He’s got a lot of damn good reasons for coming to that conclusion.
It isn’t enough to calm your words and rhetoric. More should be done. We have allowed Second Amendment-twisting morons the right to have their own personal armories in their own homes. Legally.
I have no problem with gun ownership. Have a rifle to hunt with. Have a shotgun to take out a home invader should that ever happen. A handgun? Be serious. Most folks aren’t properly trained with it and ever fewer of those practice often enough to be able to shoot straight with one.
And even if you have one, do you really need a 31 round clip instead of just 10 for your Glock?
Do you? Really? Because that, if nothing else, is what separated the unfortunate shooting of a couple people versus taking out 20 people.
You’ve got the right to own a gun. You shouldn’t have the right to be fricking Rambo.