Here’s what I’m doing this weekend: SEAC Reunion.
Author: Ruby Sinreich
Two sides of the same coin
These two sites take a sharp and humorous stab at black-white race relations. The white view: Black People Love Us. The Black view: Rent-A-Negro.
Another take on flash mobs
A mob that matters descended on a Portland Wal*Mart to protest the their pharmacy’s national policy of not carrying emergency contraception. That sure seems like better idea than the flash mob/shoot out at Southpoint last week. Here’s more from the flash mob “movement.”
Is there anybody out there?
So I know I get about a dozen visits to this blog every day from some very random search engine hits. (Plus a few hundred if I get linked to by Doctor Dave.) But I was wondering, does anybody read me regularly? Are my clever wit and invincible logical stylings all in vain? It wouldn’t be the first time.
So I’ve added the ability to comment on each blog item, ’cause I want to hear from you, gentle reader. Or at least I want to know if you’re alive. Just click the [rants] link below each post and add your own randomness. Bring it on – I can handle the truth.
Now you know what to get me for Hannukah.
Million for Marriage
Pardon the canned text:
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Chapel Hill Town Council fails spinal exam!
Does anyone have a transplant?
I think it’s safe to say that it’s evident to anyone paying attention that the community consensus is to stop UNC’s destructive rampage. But six members of the Council still think there’s some value in negotiating with Godzilla. “Give him what he wants, maybe he’ll go away…”
“That’s why I am regretfully and with a rather violent resentment willing to support this,” Council Member Harrison said. “I’m voting for it because we are under a threat. A gun is being held to our head.”
(As in: N&O: UNC will get its deck, chiller
[Chapel Hill gives grudging approval] & Herald: Chapel Hill OKs UNC projects)
Self-described “Girl Blog from Iraq…”
“… let’s talk war, politics and occupation” at Baghdad Burning.
I’m one of the lucky ones… I’m not important. I’m not vital. Over a month ago, a prominent electrical engineer (one of the smartest females in the country) named Henna Aziz was assassinated in front of her family– two daughters and her husband. She was threatened by some fundamentalists from Badir’s Army and told to stay at home because she was a woman, she shouldn’t be in charge. She refused- the country needed her expertise to get things functioning- she was brilliant. She would not and could not stay at home. They came to her house one evening: men with machine-guns, broke in and opened fire. She lost her life- she wasn’t the first, she won’t be the last.
Whip it, whip it good.
Woah. If you’re anywhere near my age, please make sure you’re sitting comfortably before I tell you this. The latest Swiffer commercial doesn’t just feature a Devo song, they actually rewrote the song to sing the praises of Swiffer!
“When you’ve got a dirty floor/ You need Swiffer …” and so on, climaxing with, “With Swiffer—place looks great! It’s not too late! Swiffer’s good!”
Here’s a Slate article on whether this (and Madonna’s weak-ass Gap ad) are a sign of the apocalypse. I’m so confused. I thought it was called SwifTer.
Chapel Hill Town Council spinal exam tonight at 7
Here’s a small update on the the Council’s impending decision on UNC’s Development Plan Modification (see last week). I’ll probably be watching this hot action at home on TV. (You know, us politicos really know how to live it up.)