Update: Finally found the YouTube version of the ad MTV won't play:
Crazy news from Adbusters.org. I was going to post (perhaps too late to be much use) about Buy Nothing Day, when I saw this, which I find shocking — because I remember when MTV started, and it was radical and spit in the eye… Read the rest
I just spent 30 minutes trying to find a link to the page at msnbc.com where one can find transcripts to previous shows. Thanks to Google, and to none of the prodigious menus on the site, I finally found this list, which only goes back a limited time, but it solves my immediate problem. Why they make it so… Read the rest
The Campaign for Youth Justice is a national campaign dedicated to ending the practice of trying, sentencing and incarcerating children under the age of 18 in the adult criminal justice system by empowering those moved to act for youth justice.
New Report – “Jailing Juveniles: The Dangers of Incarcerating Youth in Adult Jails in America”
CFYJ Report – November 15,
Last week there was a “columnist war” on the editorial pages of the New York Times about how mythologized the Reagan legacy has become (which has been turned on its head for a generation that wasn't there).
But Bill Clinton's presidency is getting whitewashed in a major way, too (distorted on both sides, actually), not the… Read the rest
from Canadian County Historical Museum, El Reno, Oklahoma
I rarely listen to music, and when I do it's the old stuff. So I had never even heard of Kanye West until that little controversy at a Katrina fundraiser a couple of years ago.
I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family, it [the media] says, 'they're looting'. You
The outing of Valerie Plame is back in the news with the release of an excerpt from Scott McClellan's upcoming memoir, which looks like it might be subtitled “If I Did It, by The Bush Administration.”
So the question is, will this lead anyone with some power to ramp up an investigation, towards the only place justice leads:… Read the rest
