Monthly Archives: June 2009

A nice solid dose of WTF??

Posted on 30 June, 2009 by

At least 100 detainees have been killed by U.S. torture and interrogation methods via AlterNet and Salon And to make matters worse, His Great Holiness, The Sacred Purveyor of Change We Can Believe In President Obama is doing things scarily … Continue reading →

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Monday Mix: Random Happiness edition

Posted on 29 June, 2009 by

I’ll now be posting a mini-mix every Monday because 1) I’m kind of  a music/mix tape whore, but very few of my friends are, so I’ll just force them on you, dear blog readers; and 2) Mondays tend to suck … Continue reading →

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Infinite Summer – Week 1

Posted on 28 June, 2009 by

**I’ll be posting regularly every Sunday night, sticking to the scheduled spoiler lines.  So if you haven’t hit the Week 1 mark yet and don’t want to see any spoilers, don’t read.** When I first announced I was gonna do … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny

Posted on 26 June, 2009 by

Okay, so this is going up really late and should probably be a Saturday Funny, but damned if it doesn’t send me into fits of laughter every time I see it. via one of my fave blogs, Cake Wrecks

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Link Roundup

Posted on 26 June, 2009 by

Metro Victim’s Family Getting Anti-Immigrant Hate Mail/Calls A fund for the Ana Fernandez’s family has been set up here. There Will be Blood: Neda Agha Soltan’s Post-Mortem Image in the Media via Muslimah Media Watch [I]nstead of being put to … Continue reading →

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Little known fact about me

Posted on 25 June, 2009 by

“I’ll Be There” by the Jackson 5 is my favorite song.  Mariah ain’t got nothin’ on the Jackson 5 version. Oh, Michael…

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Supreme Court rules against Arizona school district in strip search case

Posted on 25 June, 2009 by

Awesome. I’ve been following this case since I first heard about then-13-year-old Savana Redding’s forced strip search at school.  Redding was accused of having pills in her undergarments (The hard drugs in question? Prescription-strength Ibuprofen, which is equivalent to two … Continue reading →

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Posted on 24 June, 2009 by
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Infinite Summer

Posted on 23 June, 2009 by

I finally received my copy of Infinite Jest today, which means that I can finally start participating in Infinite Summer.  The challege is to read the thousand page tome over the course of the summer (about 75 pages a week). … Continue reading →

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Damn you (again), PETA!

Posted on 21 June, 2009 by

via The Abolitionist Approach The organization willing to exploit all other forms of oppression to promote its animal rights agenda has struck again.  For its first South American ad campaign, PETA’s enlisted Lydia Guevara, Che Guevara’s granddaughter, to pose semi-nude … Continue reading →

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