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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2013 15 Comments

Occupied by a Prius. Spotted in the IKEA parking lot in Tampa, Florida: ...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2013 68 Comments
I tend to make light of the language police when it comes to the Saturday Night Card Game, but it's actually a very serious subject. The incessant attempt to turn race-neutral phrases into racial testing grounds is part of a larger political war in which race agitators seek to turn everything into a discussion of race all the time in every sphere of life. Here are some prior examples we have considered: Black List, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Rejigger, Providence Plantations, Black Friday, Gobbledygook, Illegal Immigrant, Undocumented Immigrant, Master Bedroom, and even the use of white copy paper. We also addressed the idiom Chink in the Armor after a sportscaster was suspended and a copywriter (who happened to be married to an Asian woman) was fired for using the phrase in connection with discussing basketball player Jeremy Lin's on-court weaknesses.  The controversy was contrived, but it drove race into the headlines:
“Chink in the armor” is a non-racial idiom, not a single word, denoting:
A vulnerable area, as in Putting things off to the last minute is the chink in Pat’s armor and is bound to get her in trouble one day . This term relies on chink in the sense of “a crack or gap,” a meaning dating from about 1400 and used figuratively since the mid-1600s.
Now "chink in the armor" is back in the news because a CNBC reporter used the phrase in assessing whether Wendi Deng, the Chinese wife of Rubert Murdoch, could overcome trust agreements as part of their divorce. The phrase was not used to refer to Ms. Deng, but to legal arguments Deng's lawyer would use to allow her to access the Trusts which contained most of Murdock's vast fortune. Here's the discussion, via Hot Air:
"What do you think the chink in the armor here might be, that's what [the lawyer] is so good at, is finding a chink in the prenupts and all these trusts."

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 03, 2013 19 Comments

So, about that expected wave of new gun violence in concealed-carry counties in Illinois. This is a good question. https://twitter.com/Watchdogorg/status/363734808179916800 From Watchdog.org: “There haven’t been any problems,” Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Gibbons said. “I suspect that no one is even aware when someone around them is carrying. ...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 03, 2013 11 Comments
The general manager of Twitter UK, Tony Wang, sent a series of tweets Saturday, apologizing to women who have experienced abuse on its site. https://twitter.com/TonyW/status/363602538022436864 The social media company also posted an update to its blog Saturday morning, outlining changes it plans to make to its policies. The developments come after UK lawmaker Stella Creasy and feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez were the targets of rape threats on Twitter, sparking a very public backlash against the social media company. Arrests were later made in connection with that investigation. Several female journalists also received bomb threats on Twitter, including Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman, Independent columnist Grace Dent, Emma Barnett of The Daily Telegraph and Europe editor of Time magazine Catherine Mayer. The threats triggered a petition calling for Twitter to modify its policies and make it easier to report abuse, and some called for boycotts.  Creasy took it a step further though, calling the threats a "hate crime." From the BBC:
[Journalist Caitlin] Moran has called for a 24-hour Twitter boycott on 4 August to try to get Twitter to come up with an "anti-troll policy". Labour MP Ms Creasy said: "This is not a technology crime - this is a hate crime. If they were doing it on the street, the police would act." She told the BBC she had been chasing Twitter for the past 24 hours but they had not yet responded to her. "I am absolutely furious with Twitter that they are not engaging in this at all," she said.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2013 24 Comments

Lindsey Graham deserves a primary challenge. He has several million in the bank, and surely will receive a lot more from those who want to keep him fighting for amnesty (assuming he doesn't pull it off prior to the election). There now are two people are...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2013 5 Comments

That would be me. T-shirt idea:  "We engaged in institutional racism to fight white privilege, and all we got was more white privilege": Elite colleges fail to enroll minority students T-shirt idea: "We threw money at the U.S. News rankings, and all we got were these lousy retention...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2013 6 Comments

For a day or two, the massive explosion in the Syrian city of Homs was a mystery. Another Who bombed it? Israeli attack?  Or just more destruction by the Syrian government which already has left Homs a wreck? Via WaPo on August 1: What caused this enormous explosion in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2013 12 Comments

From XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX on July 22: The sequester greeted me at Miami...

Posted by New Neo on August 02, 2013 30 Comments

So now we have word that the Smithsonian is "eyeing" Trayvon Martin's hoodie for its new branch, the National Museum of African American History and Culture. According to the branch's director Lonnie Bunch: It became the symbolic way to talk about the Trayvon Martin case...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 02, 2013 5 Comments

The Bahraini government has reportedly resorted to some drastic measures in its effort to silence dissent.  Citing a recent report from Bahrain Watch, the Foreign Policy blog describes how the government there tricks Twitter users into clicking links that reveal their IP address, thus identifying...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 02, 2013 40 Comments

I have noticed some of the comments on the pieces regarding San Diego's scandal-ridden mayor, Bob Filner, saying that the news is a distraction from items that really impact citizens, and that the women were consenting adults who didn't complain...

Posted by Anne Segal on August 02, 2013 14 Comments

The Frontier Lab's Switching Behavior study, which identified four core events that preceded disaffiliation from the Republican label, has been picked up by everyone from Sarah Palin and Sean Hannity to Vicki McKenna Yesterday morning, I joined Philadelphia's Rich Zeoli show to discuss the study's findings -- and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 02, 2013 4 Comments

take it easy. From Tugboat Phil in Virginia: I was perusing Ebay for Simplicity riding mowers and found a great addition to the bumper sticker collection. I'd never seen a mower quite this adorned before, but I may have to do mine up now. This was for auction in...

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