July 2012
77 posts
SHE HAS NO HEAD! – THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE...
JULY 30, 2012 @ 09:00 AM
by Kelly Thompson
So a couple weeks ago I posted a round up of my favorite news from SDCC 2012. It’s now only fair that I talk about what I found to be the most disappointing news to come out of SDCC 2012. And I’m only going to talk about one thing, because the continued weirdness when it comes to characters like Stephanie Brown and Cass Cain though depressing...
“‘There were no black makeup artists and there were no black hair stylists and I...”
– Beverly Johnson, on being a black supermodel in the 1970’s Getting Old Is Hard, Even (And Especially) For Models (via npr)
The Poverty Epidemic Hits the Suburbs
Posted on Jul 26, 2012
By Bill Boyarsky
Why is this presidential campaign so centered on the middle class? What about the poor people? Their numbers are growing, but their fate hasn’t made it into the debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
Of course, the Democratic candidate and his Republican opponent don’t have the same vision of where America should go. The president favors...
The Perversion of Scholarship
Posted on Jul 30, 2012
By Chris Hedges
Fraternities, sororities and football, along with other outsized athletic programs, have decimated most major American universities. Scholarship, inquiry, self-criticism, moral autonomy and a search for artistic and esoteric forms of expression—in short, the world of ethics, creativity and ideas—are shouted down by the drunken chants of fans in huge...
“Children have no real sense of how life can flip. School perpetrates an illusion...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates, on teenage alienation and nerd culture. (via theatlantic)
Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the...
October 2011 by Andy Coghlan and Debora MacKenzie
Magazine issue 2835.
The 1318 transnational corporations that form the core of the economy. Superconnected companies are red, very connected companies are yellow. The size of the dot represents revenue (Image: PLoS One)
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AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the...
APE IN A CAPE: Blade →
gailsimone:
It’s weird how the Blade movie has kind of been removed from Marvel cinema history.
Maybe I’m mistaken here, but Marvel’s recent, and well-deserved success is no secret. But whenever people talk about what a juggernaut Marvel movies have become, we keep hearing that it was Iron Man that ‘started…
APE IN A CAPE: Blade →
gailsimone:
big-wired:
gailsimone:
It’s weird how the Blade movie has kind of been removed from Marvel cinema history.
Maybe I’m mistaken here, but Marvel’s recent, and well-deserved success is no secret. But whenever people talk about what a juggernaut Marvel movies have become, we keep hearing that it was Iron Man that ‘started…
Yes, this. Blade showed movie studios that superhero...
“Even with a persistent gender gap in a presidential election year, House...”
– Editorial, “Republicans Vs. Women,” in the New York Times (via barackobama)
How one ThinkProgress writer left work in an... →
think-progress:
Ian Millhiser writes about his full experience at TP:
Three weeks ago, I left work in an ambulance and a great deal of pain. In the night that followed, doctors determined that I had a bowel rupture leaking digestive fluid into my abdominal cavity, and a truly outstanding surgeon removed about 8 inches of my small intestine. A few days later, my doctors told me I have Crohn’s...
APE IN A CAPE: Happy Birthday Gail Simone! →
hilegunslinger:
confessionsofacomicshopaholic:
Today, July 29th, is comic book writer extraordinaire Gail Simone’s birthday! I know I’ve done a post about her already but I’d like to do another one to pay tribute to my favorite comic book writer.
Everyone knows Gail is best known…
Inside the head of an overpaid CEO
By Jeffrey Pfeffer, Published: April 17
This piece is part of an On Leadership round table exploring the reasons behind the persistence and prevalence of outsized executive pay.
High CEO pay is like a zombie that will not die.
And it’s hard to understand why, considering most leadership advice and organizational theory would stop excessive pay packages dead in their tracks. They put too...
What's Really Wrong With America's 'Best and...
By June Carbone, AlterNet
Posted on July 20, 2012, Printed on July 21, 2012
What’s wrong with America’s best and brightest? Why do the products of today’s prestigious colleges and institutions seem particularly distanced from the fates of the rest of us? Have they always been like that? If not, what has changed? These questions have been circulating recently around the topics of...
So-Called Fiscal Cliff Is Baloney; Our Economy Can...
By Marshall Auerback, AlterNet
Posted on July 15, 2012, Printed on July 21, 2012
Here’s something you’re unlikely to hear when you turn on the TV. Deficits are not the problem in our economy. And tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 a year are not the solution. What America really needs is a serious national program to put people back to work. That’s the key to saving...
Bill Moyers and Chris Hedges: How Whole Regions of...
By Bill Moyers and Chris Hedges, Bill Moyers Posted on July 21, 2012, Printed on July 21, 2012
You can watch the video of Moyers’ interview with Hedges at the bottom of this transcript.
BILL MOYERS: Here we are, barely halfway through the summer, and Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have stepped up their cage match, each attacking the other, throwing insults and accusations back and forth like...
“What did happen early Friday morning was not an act of God. It was not His will...”
– Andrew Cohen, on gun violence in America. (via theatlantic)
I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's... →
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Attempted Danger: I love finding out words for... →
pinstripesuit:
My favorite chapter, Chapter 4, is titled, “Special treatment for lovers: Marriage, care, and amatonormativity.” Amato-what? Amatonormativity is
“the assumption that a central, exclusive, amorous relationship is normal for humans, in that it is a universally shared…
STUDY: Kardashians Get 40 Times More News Coverage...
BLOG ››› JUNE 27, 2012 10:58 AM EDT ››› SHAUNA THEEL
Carbon dioxide emissions are not just warming up our atmosphere, they’re also changing the chemistry of our oceans. This phenomenon is known as ocean acidification, or sometimes as global warming’s “evil twin” or the “osteoporosis of the sea.” Scientists have warned that it poses a serious threat to...
The Idiot Gene - Our Possible Trending Toward...
It would seem, on the outside, that the intelligence of mankind is at an all-time high. Modern technologies exist that once were not even dreamed of, and we are - quite literally - living in the future that we used to read about in science fiction novels, though I’m still waiting for time travel and a robotic household staff to do my chores for me.
But are we really more advanced? Right...
The Ecology of Disease
July 14, 2012
By JIM ROBBINS
THERE’S a term biologists and economists use these days — ecosystem services — which refers to the many ways nature supports the human endeavor. Forests filter the water we drink, for example, and birds and bees pollinate crops, both of which have substantial economic as well as biological value.
If we fail to understand and take care of the natural world, it can...
Robert Reich: The Problem Isn't Outsourcing. It's... →
robertreich:
President Obama is slamming Mitt Romney for heading companies that were “pioneers in outsourcing U.S. jobs,” while Romney is accusing Obama of being “the real outsourcer-in-chief.”
These are the dog days of summer and the silly season of presidential campaigns. But can we get real, please?
The…
Unemployment: Manufacturing and construction jobs...
By Ray Fisman | Posted Monday, July 16, 2012, at 6:30 AM ET
| Posted Monday, July 16, 2012, at 6:30 AM ET
Slate.com
The New Artisan Economy
Manufacturing jobs aren’t coming back. Neither are construction jobs. America’s workers need to learn some new skills to stay ahead.
The end of the housing boom may have revealed a deeper long-term problem in low-skilled employment Photograph by...
“Have you heard this new movie, the Batman movie, what is it, The Dark Knight...”
– Rush Limbaugh’s latest conspiratorial musings. (via theatlantic)
“Google is in a great position to take these on,” said Rani Hong, a survivor of...”
– Newsfactor on how Google is helping fight human trafficking. (via dontsellbodies)
Wet Seal Executive: The Stores Have Too Many Black... →
37 Blacks Awarded Prestigious Science... →
Newsweek: semibold: girl-panic: newsweek: So these... →
semibold:
girl-panic:
newsweek:
So these two are super cute, living in their tiny 240-sq-foot apartment and being all space-conscious. Watch this right now.
This is the second thing I’ve seen about these two this week, and it kind of rubs me the wrong way that people are…
Mitt Romney tells us how he really feels about...
barackobama:
think-progress:
Don’t forget this one.
