late.night.logic

Jun
1st

Fri

Puny broken guitar string — clearly you are no match for the sullen, semi-neurotic might of Glenn Danzig. (Also, 2 bass players! Did the Neddies have deathlocks in HS?)

(Source: youtube.com)

May
30th

Wed

Sell yr soul (for rock n’ roll, or otherwise).

(Source: youtube.com)

Apr
22nd

Sun

Audacia Ray: Why the Sex Positive Movement is Bad for Sex Workers’ Rights

audaciaray:

If we put aside our attachment to the sex positive construction of sex work, we will certainly hear things that will be hard to sit with. But for sex positivity to be a useful framework, one that encourages the pursuit of social justice, it must also engage with the ugly pieces of sexuality, and not in a simplistically reactive way. Otherwise, the concept of being a sex positive sex worker is a self-serving marketing practice, in which the enjoyment of sexuality is being sold as a product to both workers and our clients.

h/t Jill

Mar
29th

Thu

We have come to worship the gun as a totem in our politics. By the standards of what we have allowed to happen in this regard, George Zimmerman might be giving speeches at the NRA convention by this time next year. There are hands around our entire government now, and they are cold and dead ones.

— The Way of the Gun and Why Travyon’s Case Won’t Stop It - Esquire

Mar
28th

Wed

I apologize for what was in hindsight an ambiguous cartoon related to the Trayvon Martin shooting. I intended to contribute thoughtful commentary on the media coverage of the incident, however this goal fell flat. I would like to make it explicitly clear that I am not a racist, and that I am personally appalled by the killing of Trayvon Martin. I regret any pain the wording or message of my cartoon may have caused.

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Stephanie Eisner, political cartoonist for the University of Texas at Austin newspaper The Daily Texan, on her Trayvon Martin-related cartoon published this week, quoted in Ralph K.M. Haurwitz’s article “Daily Texan cartoon causes a stir.” (via icantbelieveitsalawblog)

Thank you for the announcement that you “Are not a racist” but…does your cartoon drawing hand know?

(via racismschool)

Here’s the stupid fucking cartoon. Also “thoughtful commentary” and “political cartoon” are almost always mutually exclusive.

You’ve always gotta appreciate the “Now that I am being called out on my racist shit, I’d like to formally state that I am not a racist and would you please stop bothering me about it” defense.

(via paxamericana)

Sad and disgusting. Appologies are wasted, because this was to low and to plump to possible mend with a word or two of shallow remorse.

(via mamitah)

Substitute “ghoulish,” “sleazy,” “disgusting,” “unfunny,” or “creepy” for “ambiguous.” (“Racist As All Fuck”) will do, too.

The one thing this cartoon is NOT is “ambiguous.” Not unless what’s in doubt is exactly how many black kids the “artist” wants to see dead.

(via nezua)

UTX profile of Stephanie Eisner — honestly, one would hope that someone who apparently spent the majority of their HS career bolstering their resume prior to uni would have known better than to have publish something so retrograde. (“Colored” — <i>really</i>??)

(via nezua)

Mar
24th

Sat

I am sick to death of people who celebrate “the family” making excuses about why other people’s children are expendable. I am sick to death of politicians who are more concerned about protecting zygotes than about the teenagers on whom they seek to balance their budgets and advance their careers. (Barney Frank’s line about conservatives’s believing that life “begins at conception and ends at birth” was not entirely a joke, although it’s always been treated as one.) I am sick to death of opportunistic yahoos who can look at this country’s unhealthy attachment to firearms and declare that the actions of George Zimmerman, while unfortunate, were pretty much what the Founders had in mind. I am sick to death of the steady drip-drip-drip of all the topical anesthetics we mix up whenever something like this happens. Had Emmett Till been killed in 2012, there’d be at least three people sitting in the CNN Green Room right now — and probably 15 of them sitting offstage at Fox — waiting to explain how unfortunate it was that the lad so transgressed against local custom that circumstances dictated that he be beaten to a pulp and tossed into the river tied to a cotton-gin fan. I am sick to death about how we can argue about anything simply to argue about it, and then move along to the next argument, as though anything at all has been settled.

— Trayvon Martin News - Trayvon Martin and the End of Excuses - Esquire

unfuckwithable.ca: Two MPs down, one majority government to go.

unfuckwithable:

I have two cabinet ministers that could easily be implicated (or outright proven involved) in the robocalls and voter suppression that took place in the 2011 election, even as far back as 2008. The identity of these two Ministers of the Crown could bring down the entire Conservative Party,…

Mar
9th

Fri

Mar
1st

Thu

jayrosen:

Actually Governor Romney, what you just said is completely incorrect… This is NPR.

NPR has a new ethics handbook, which came out February 24th. Here’s the key part:

We report for our readers and listeners, not our sources. So our primary consideration when presenting the news is that we are fair to the truth. If our sources try to mislead us or put a false spin on the information they give us, we tell our audience. If the balance of evidence in a matter of controversy weighs heavily on one side, we acknowledge it in our reports.

Fair to the truth. Pretty cool. It’s already started to have an effect. This is from an NPR report on Feb. 27th about auto bailouts and the Republican candidates.

NPR REPORTER: Mitt Romney, son of former American Motors CEO George Romney, criticized President Barack Obama’s handling of the bailout.

MITT ROMNEY: Instead of going through the normal managed bankruptcy process, he made sure the bankruptcy process ended up with the UAW taking the lion’s share of the equity in the business.

NPR REPORTER: Actually, the U.S. Treasury got most of GM’s equity.

Such a simple word: “Actually….” And now it has a chance to become standard practice at NPR.

For more on this, see my post: NPR Tries to Get its Pressthink Right

(Photo by Matthew Reichbach. Creative Commons License.)

Feb
24th

Fri

(via Super PACs: Who are the biggest players in the 2012 elections? - Slate Magazine)

102 Essential Science Fiction Books for Your Kindle | GeekDad | Wired.com

Feb
19th

Sun

So awesome on so many levels.

Jan
23rd

Mon

“When Ron Paul claims that Lincoln “shouldn’t have gone to war,” he is deploying a convenient and erroneous frame which necessarily holds that the inciting aggression was not in raising an Army, seizing federal property and arms, urging revolution among ones neighbors, and then firing on a federal fort, but in democratically electing a president with whom slave-holders disagreed.”

- TNC

“Basically, I’m bewildered by progressives who embrace Paul. It’s as if there has to be a male leader, someone “uncompromising” and “pure” and “principled” to romanticize, and since obviously that can’t be a Democrat (sellouts! wimps!), the eye of the pundit wanders right. With Occupy Wall Street still animating the national conversation, this seems like exactly the wrong time to befriend the nation’s major proselytizer for “Austrian economics.””

- Katha Pollitt

Jan
18th

Wed

In fact, the chance that what you are reporting is bogus is much higher than the 5% you so cheerfully claimed with your poignant asterisk. Because journals will only publish novel, interesting findings – and therefore researchers only bother to write up seemingly intriguing counterintuitive findings – the chance that what they eventually are publishing is BS unwittingly is vast.

— Why you really can’t trust any of the research you read « StrategyProfs.net (via felixsalmon)

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