January 2011
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Where’ll you be for the Revolution?
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Fox News' coverage of mass protests in Egypt
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Can't decide which one I like more...
Penguins bowed in mourning after the deaths of...
Prostrate on the icy tundra of the Antarctic, they appear the picture of misery after the deaths of their chicks. The extraordinary image capturing penguins in an act of mass mourning was taken on the Riiser Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica by photographer Daniel J. Cox.
‘Part of my job is to accept that with the spectacular sights of nature also come the stark facts of life, and to...
New Mexico basketball games being broadcast in...
The striped men, as Harrison Dehiya calls them, tossed the ball up at half-court to start a game in last week’s 67th annual Gallup Invitational basketball tournament—in Gallup, N.Mex., 130 miles west of Albuquerque—and Dehiya began not only calling the game but also preserving a language. For the past 14 years Dehiya, 54, has broadcast sports in his native Navajo to a 1,000-watt...
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Lil' Wayne Shades Lebron James and Dwyane Wade
Lil’ Wayne tells ROLLING STONE that despite having court side seats he was treated as if he were a non-celebrity by LeBron James and Dwyane Wade at a recent Miami Heat / New Orleans Hornets game. A worldwide phenomenon we like to call REGLA here in Crunkland (Blightyboo note: LOL). “Them niggas never speak to a nigga,” he says. “They don’t chuck me the deuce or nothing. Nigga spent all...
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Detroit fans chant, “We want Rip”. Blightyboo...
And in the meantime, please, someone give Hamilton his early release, with credit for time already served. Look, I know it’s hard to muster much sympathy for a guy who’s making $12.6 million this season. And next season. And $9 million the season after that. But he’s a competitor at heart, and, yes, he heard the fans calling his name Monday.
“It’s hard,...
Kobe Teams Up With Robert Rodriguez
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Tough Emotional Ride
The benching of Richard Hamilton should be a tough emotional ride for Pistons fans.
On the one hand, Hamilton was the leading scorer on a great run of Pistons teams, including the title team in 2004. He should deserve better than this. But on the other hand, Hamilton is obviously a square peg in the round hole that is today’s Pistons. Hamilton needs the offense to focus on him, and...
Among many other things we could say about his wide-ranging explorations of literature, Walter Benjamin was the most penetrating interpreter of Franz Kafka’s animal tales. Shame is crucial in Benjamin’s reading of Kafka and is imagined as a unique moral sensibility. Shame is both intimate—felt in the depths of our inner lives—and, at the same time, social—something...
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Rip Hamilton benched amid trade talks →
“This is a very different situation for me,” Hamilton said Friday night. “I’ve never been in this situation my whole career. I don’t know where to look.”
Pistons forward Tayshaun Prince also expressed frustration. ”I am mad. Anger as far as now,” Prince said, according to the Detroit newspaper. “When I look at it I see so many things he can...
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Flip Murray is heading to Turkey. North America...
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I know I’m way late on this but this video is really good. Chris stays slaying your favs.
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Ricky Romance's Apology to Chris Brown.
…I would like to extend my most sincere apologies to the elderly and youth of our nation for my sudden acrasial message of violence towards other individuals of unimportance. I must eclaircise any misunderstandings that I am a Man of irrational aggression and behavior. In no way am I attempting to justify my actions towards persons of high immaturity levels and hypocritical methods of...
In 'Last Exit,' Brooklyn Is A Character, Too
They are not the kind of characters you normally root for; they are too flawed in very destructive ways. It’s like rooting for the schoolyard bully because you found out that when he’s not slamming people into lockers he likes butterflies. The beauty of Last Exit is that, against the odds, these characters are reaching. So as much as you are revolted by their flaws, you also start...
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Words too hot to mention
As it happens, the topic of bad words is one that interests me; and I’d been thinking about it anyway in connection with the publication of new editions of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, in which all occurrences of two insulting words had been removed.
I myself would never buy such a bowdlerized edition of the book, not for myself, and not for my kids. And I’d frown on my...
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Wolves Among The Stars: Rethinking Who On Earth...
How naïve are we in our thinking about extraterrestrial intelligence and its inclinations? Here we sit, a newly high-tech species, unwittingly broadcasting our existence to anyone (anything?) with a radio reciever. Are we like baby birds chirping away announcing our presence to a galaxy full of predators?…Last spring Steven Hawking made news when he used his Discovery Channel series...
By imposing a curriculum that forbids the exploration of divergent cultures while propping up the dominant one, there’s another process at work here, what we might call ethnonormativity. This takes the teachings of one culture - the colonizer’s - and makes it the standard version of history while literally banning other accounts, turning the master narrative into the...
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Isn't it, weirdly, exactly how we always thought...
In Philly, we ate it up. It was his defiance, and skill, and something even better: He was incapable of hiding, of not being himself. No other athlete is like that. He became infamous for a press conference where he defended himself for skipping and showing up late for practice (and, occasionally, hungover). It was a press conference in which he uttered the word “practice” 26 times...
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M.I.A. - "VICKI LEEKX" (MIXTAPE)
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