[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- The Things Mel Gibson Is
- [DISGRASIAN]
Whoopi Goldberg says her pal Mel Gibson isn’t racist! And if Whoopi says so, it must be true!
But when you cross that one off the list of Things Mel Gibson Is, you’re still left with [this list]…
- The burka ban, and Sarzosky’s sexist determination of what a woman should look like
- [Deeply Problematic]
Legal management of women’s bodies is an expression of sexism, whether it pertains to reproduction, weight, birth assignment, disability, sexuality, or clothing.
The French government is ordering women to express themselves in certain ways. They are determining the meaning of women’s clothing and bodies for women; they are mandating exactly how much is okay to cover up and exactly how much is too much. Sarzosky is forcing women to show their faces to the outside world, forcing them to place their bodies up for public consumption – whether they want to or not.
This is yet another example of the French government making decisions about women’s bodies for women, as they did in telling Delphine Ravisé-Giard that she is not a woman until her breasts are a certain size. [...]
[This ban is] about Western men, individually and systematically, controlling Muslim women – not about Muslim men individually and systematically controlling Muslim women.
- Tea Party Leader Mark Williams Says NAACP Profits From Racism ‘More Than Slave Traders’ Did
- [Crooks and Liars]
Even for Mark Williams, this is bizarre. In an interview with NPR, he accused the NAACP of wanting racism to continue because it is profitable for them. [...]
First we have the false equivalence argument that has definitely seen better days…
- BREAKING: Wall Street Reform Passes: Now it’s up to the regulators
- [Crooks and Liars]
After 18 months, Wall Street reform is on its way to the President’s desk. The Senate invoked cloture by a vote of 60-38 and the final conference committee report passed by the same margin. A good summary of the key provisions can be found here.
Even before the final passage, Minority Leader John Boehner called for its repeal. [...]
UPDATE: In other news, Goldman-Sachs is expected to announce a settlement with the SEC and BP appears to have stopped the flow of oil from the well, driving the price of their shares up 6% immediately following the announcement.
UPDATE #2: Aaaand… a chemical tanker has run aground near Galveston, creating yet another potential disaster for the Gulf of Mexico.
- Take Financial Reform Into Your Own Hands
- [Move Your Money]
Financial reform legislation will soon be passed into law, but unfortunately Congress’s version of reform falls short in a lot of areas. There is work still to do to rein in the “Too Big To Fail” banks, limit some of their casino-style bets and create a broader, more stable financial system. While Congress may well rewrite the rules again to further protect us from the big banks, we can’t wait; it’s up to us to us to act on our own. Stacy Mitchell, of the New Rules Project’s Community Banking Initiative, explains what we can do…
- Glenn Beck says Jesus was a badass
- [Hullabaloo - Digby]
[My anti-semitism-'dar is not up to parsing this Beck quote, so lemme just slap a general warning in here. WTF, dude. -L]
- Mark Williams is not an obscure fringe teabagger. He’s a national Tea Party leader.
- [Hullabaloo - Digby]
[On Tea Party racism. -L]
- 200,000 Member Union Council Endorses Prop 19
- [Firedoglake]
More good news for California’s marijuana legalization initiative: UFCW’s Western States Council, representing more than 200,000 union members in the Western US, endorsed Prop 19 yesterday.
[Eh, but the labor unions are a bunch of pinkos anyway. -L]
- Droid X Struts In as iPhone Buckles
- [LinuxInsider]
Consumers who have put off buying their first smartphone or upgrading an aging one are facing a more complicated decision as of Thursday. Into a market already very heated with the recent launches of [various redacted], comes Motorola’s Droid X, the latest Android-based smartphone offered by Verizon. Of course, no move in the smartphone market can be made this summer without the inevitable discussion of its relationship to the issues around the iPhone launch.
- Periodic table of swearing
- [kottke.org]
I would be fucking remiss in my duties here if I didn’t inform you of this bloody awesome periodic table of swearing, you bunch of stupid old wankers.
- You Have Too Many Pool Accessories For a Dog
- [Daily Squee - Cute Baby Animals]
- Jay Bybee Admits CIA Had No Approval for Water Dousing, Diapering
- [Firedoglake]
On May 26, the House Judiciary Committee interviewed Jay Bybee about the circumstances that went into the Bybee Memos authorizing torture. Here’s the transcript of that interview.
I’m going to read them in depth, but for now I wanted to point out this detail…
- Distro Agnostic packaging: Making AppImages
- [OMG! Ubuntu!]
Welcome to the world of Distro agnostic application packaging thanks to the ‘1 app = 1 file’ AppImage initiative from the Elementary-Project.
Yesterday we waxed lyrical about the ‘portability’ factor of AppImages – the one-click self-contained applications that can run from any location and on any distribution.
Today we’re going to look a bit deeper at what they really are, how they work and how you can package up your favourite application as a one-click distro-agnostic AppImage…
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