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Speaking of Westbrook and spin moves:
That's funny, because Jezebel's own writers use the word all the time. Here's from today:
Thought I'd plug the role Theodore Parker played in protecting the Crafts from the slave-catchers who'd come to Boston to return them to slavery. The Garrisonians weren't about to threaten anyone with violence, while people like Parker (later one of the Secret Six—the principle financiers of John Brown's raid on…
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This is my fave:
1. You don't know what hearsay is, yet you feel the need to spread your misunderstanding of the term
Fincher's best movie by far, IMO.
Just posted this for Saeeda:
"An Ceiling Cat sed them O hai maek bebehs kthx."
The cardigan girls look better to me.
"We are not going to agree because I'm right and you're wrong" seems to sum things up pretty well: a juvenile response in support of a facile position. Emphasizing your restated position with caps and then restating it again with no indication that you've read anything I've written, is not the advancement of an…
Again, it's non-revelatory that racism is worse the more power it has from which to act. Two acts can be categorically the same and differ radically in degree: that we can label as "hatred" both what you reserve the term "racism" for and what you would exempt from it for its relative lack of power poses no problems,…
Nope. No I'm not.
Racism is racial prejudice. That it's worse the more power it has to act on is non-revelatory and not grounds for redefining it, or any ism, as operative only when coming from a position of power.
Here's a nice profile of a smart cow, one of many profiles that Jon Katz used to write of the animals on his farm for Slate:
I like the idea of assessing a next-game technical, maybe even next-game played against the team you committed the flop against—though that distinction wouldn't matter so much in the playoffs, when flops and the next-game technicals punishing them would have the greatest impact. In addition to the offending player…