Hump Day Reading #11
Welcome to the eleventh issue of Hump Day Reading, where I compile a small collection of links to letters, blog posts, articles, opinions, columns, videos, and pictures for your intellectual enjoyment.
- This is by far the biggest story doing the rounds in the blogosphere. Tracie Egan Morrissey started a blog called Hello there, Racists in which she outs disgusting, scummy Twitter users for their racism. It is incredibly brave, and I commend her.
- This is the piece she did for Jezebel, in which she works through her reasoning and motivation. It is worth pointing out that Jezebel's editor made a pretty glaring error over the picture-mash they use as the header, which featured the photo of an innocent teenage, which was rectified, but there was no apology.
- And then, Dodai Stewart writes for Gawker about the inevitable backlash.
- Seeing as we're on the subject of Gawker articles, they ran this satirical piece about Florida Senator Marco Rubio.
- In other super-important news, Phan Nguyen has this fantastic analysis of IDF propoganda over Hamas rocket attacks. It is an analysis of one side of the conflict, so I don't want to hear any snide comments that it's 'not balanced'.
- This rather interesting, but slanted, picture emerged recently, along similar lines as the above piece.
- And as a former hipster myself, this NYT article is damn funny, and very accurate.
- And here is the greatest record review in the history of the universe, of Mumford and Son's appalling new album.- < Previous
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I find the american humour in these articles a terribly unfunny artifice. Not that I don't agree with the tenor of the articles - just how the yanks go on and on and on and on with the same joke repeated over and over and over. It is so unfunny.
Reply"It is an analysis of one side of the conflict, so I don't want to hear any snide comments that it's 'not balanced'". Okay - so y leave the unbalance there? Oh, I forgot - lefties only like to promote one-sided imbalance, how could I forget?... :-\ We know the Israeli's aren't perfect: none of us are. They're also the only country on the planet constantly under a very critical microscope. While the scoreboard was amusing, if wrong, it missed out one heading:"Suicide bombers". Which of course for Israel = 0.
ReplyHump day is a fact of life for those of us who internationally/nationally earn an income.
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