Wait, I totally missed Neil Hamburger? Where was he?

If you like really awesome metal with amazing drumming, their first two records can't be beat. Their second, 'Leviathan', is especially ambitious and bad ass. If you dig this, the post-Leviathan stuff is likely up your alley, though some of it is needlessly self-indulgent/proggy and they really have a thing for…

YES. I'm so happy about this.

I don't really understand why Mastodon decided they wanted to sound like Alice in Chains but I don't like it, nope not one bit

Here's the Vice piece, by the way: http://www.vice.com/read/da…

FWIW I liked yesterday's interview with Vice much, much better than the blog post referenced here. I still think that Simon is ultimately just unable to see the whole picture, which I think makes him kind of a tepid liberal reformist rather than being able to offer the same kind of more sweeping, radical critiques…

I simply disagree with this. Anti-racist activists have been working to end police brutality for decades; this problem is not new, and yet it continues, it worsens. Maybe that's because white supremacy is an ideology that runs really deep in this country, and no matter how much you appeal to those in power, you aren't…

Reducing an incredibly important figure in anti-racist activism as "Tupac's auntie" is pretty gross, friend. Also, the actual history of the civil rights movement (and of the Indian independence movement) complicates the tidy narrative of nonviolent resistance's victories. In the case of the former, keep in mind that…

Yeah, I understand Simon's argument. I disagree with it.

I'm a person in 2015 with the ability to look back on the civil rights movement's successes and failures, and be able to say that it wasn't just nonviolent resistance that won that battle. And considering the way the subsequent decades shook out, we can question what battles were actually even won, since Blacks are…

There's an Assata Shakur quote floating around that I like: "Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them." And that's the only avenue people like David Simon or any number of public figures—white and Black alike—tell us is…

But what about when non-violence doesn't work? I think it's pretty fair to argue at this point that using non-violent protest to convince those in power to change how they do things—particularly in the case of killing people of color in the streets— *isn't working*. So what then? Also, this focus on non-violence as…

Breaking windows isn't violence in any meaningful sense of the word.

Saw him speak recently and this was the main thing he talked about. Fuck this dude.

Too bad his opinion was milquetoast crap :(

Wow that was stupid

more grimdark bullshit now and forever please thanks warner bros

Ultimately I still think what happened in the book was consensual, but I can see a strong case made that, at the very least, it wasn't so clear cut.

The entire character of Ros is probably the biggest one.

There's a difference between the world depicted in the book and the show being misogynistic and the book and/or the show themselves being misogynistic. A work of fiction can depict a misogynistic world while still being pro-woman or pro-feminist, and there are arguments to be made that that's the case with the Song of…