Monthly Archives: July 2013
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ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM: “True dat, true dat!”
h/t: Being Liberal
PRESIDENTIAL COMPLICITY: “Cornel West: Obama’s Response to Trayvon Martin Case Belies Failure to Challenge “New Jim Crow'” / Democracy Now!
CRITICAL THINKING: “Cable News’s Journalistic Suicide” / Marty Kaplan
CNN and MSNBC are giving wall-to-wall coverage to the Trayvon Martin murder trial. Fox News is taking brief breaks from the courtroom to empathize with Darrell Issa and Paula Deen, because George Zimmerman isn’t the only victim around who needs defending, but otherwise the cable news channels are all race-crime-porn all the time.
They have three good reasons for doing this.
HERD MENTALITY: “The Shallow Lives of the Digitally Distracted”
h/t: WeAllSupport.com
LGBT EQUALITY: “Clearly the Problem with Monogamy is Dick” / Dan Savage
h/t: Planet Atheism
h/t: Deep Thoughts
QUOTATION: “The Opium of the People” / Karl Marx
REASON: “Oh, Bill, you’re such a meanie.” / Bill Maher
NEOLIBERALISM: “Lewis Black to Rick Perry: ‘Don’t Fuck with New York!'” / The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Quotation: “On the Malevolence of Monotheism” / Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011)
English-American, Literary Critic, Journalist, Author,
Essayist, Polemicist, and Outspoken Anti-theist



