Ok folks

Ok folks, here is a justification of the Arizona immigration bill in the NY Times by one of it’s authors. He blames the opponents of the bill for being “groups that favor relaxed enforcement of immigration laws” and claims that the Arizona law simply provides a bulwark to already existing national legislation. He also explains [...]

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What if???

Let’s play a game, shall we? The name of the game is called “Imagine.” The way it’s played is simple: we’ll envision recent happenings in the news, but then change them up a bit. Instead of envisioning white people as the main actors in the scenes we’ll conjure – the ones who are driving the [...]

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jobbing dot com

My parents celebrated the Coyotes win enthusiastically in the Jobbing.com Arena last night. If ever there were a worse name for a sporting venue, I haven’t heard it, but it seemed like an appropriate title for today’s musings. I continue to apply and continue to have no call backs. I broke down and cried on [...]

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“White” is not the new black, but that doesn’t mean it’s not real

Just finished a really excellent discussion of whiteness in the New Yorker. I’m just all aflutter at how great it is…Should I tell you all what I liked or just urge you to go read it for yourself? Maybe I’ll leave you with Kelefa Sanneh’s conclusion and encourage you again to go read it and [...]

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What is going on in Haiti?

I’ve been receiving two incredibly different strains of news on Haiti. One, from NPR, the NY Times, and other American media sources tell me about the devastation, the corruption of the Haitian government, the attempts of Americans and ngos to help, and in particular about some stupid missionaries. I remember one NPR sign off talking [...]

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Criticism of the Times

For someone who usually over quotes from the New York Times (though less so lately b/c I was away from the internet flow for awhile), this is a really interesting discussion about how race is mashed into a small box, where the opinions of a few elites represent the opinions of all. Make sure to [...]

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Reactions to “Precious”

Though I’m still happy to have seen a heavy-set, dark brown actress get a start in the business, I have to say I’m glad I didn’t see “Precious,” as this NYT Op-Ed piece confirms. The movie has become a reason to “talk about the state of black families.” Is there still an expectation that African [...]

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Sometimes a little humor clears the air

Been watching network news with Gma….ugh. That’s all I’m sayin’. So I found the in-your-face nature of this analysis refreshing when Kurt Andersen of Studio360 retweeted it this morning: It’s a wonder he didn’t laugh. Looking out over the frauds and lightweights and bland hunks of man-cheese that make up the assembled political establishment, and [...]

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Scientific Objectivity

I’m always thinking about Scientific Objectivity. In part because in high school youth group it was drilled into me to fear (to FEAR I say! Run Away!) that scary moral relativism at the University. In part because Thomas Kuhn wrote such an interesting book. And in large part because my folks were very interested in [...]

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More about Haiti and the media

Sometimes I think our media has no sense of history, even the vaunted sources that are supposedly more to be trusted than the bloggers. Sometimes I think the only thing I really know about is the stuff I’ve seen the primary sources for, and even that could be interpreted in many ways. In the hours [...]

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