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The dying demographic of right-wing talk radio
Ninety-eight major advertisers—including Ford and Geico—will no longer air spots on Premiere Networks’ offensive’ programs. Insiders say the loss will rock right-wing talk radio. (…) But this latest controversy comes at a particularly difficult time for right-wing talk radio. They are playing to a (sometimes literally) dying demographic. Rush & Co. rate best among old, […]
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La guerre à la drogue comme politique raciste
The book marshals pages of statistics and legal citations to argue that the get-tough approach to crime that began in the Nixon administration and intensified with Ronald Reagan’s declaration of the war on drugs has devastated black America. Today, Professor Alexander writes, nearly one-third of black men are likely to spend time in prison at […]
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Pinkwashing
But Saturday’s protesters felt differently. Palestinian queers have reached out to us, said Emmaia Gelman of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, and you can’t fight for queer rights in a state with no civil society. Several protesters, many of whom said they were Jewish, invoked what they called pinkwashing, Israel’s alleged touting of its progressive stance on […]
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La facilité de vieillir
J’ai peur de la vieillesse. Oui, franchement, j’ai peur. Et j’ai peur surtout de la lente mais inévitable dégringolade vers l’incapacité physique et, finalement, la mort. Je ne crains aucunement la mort, mais je ne peux pas m’empêcher de me souvenir des paroles pensives de ma mère et de l’amie écrivain, qui m’ont répété maintes […]
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Les nouveaux standards journalistiques de NPR
It now commits itself to avoiding the worst excesses of he said, she said journalism. It says to itself that a report characterized by false balance is a false report. It introduces a new and potentially powerful concept of fairness: being fair to the truth. My verdict: Bravo, NPR. Within the world of pressthink there […]
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La loi Moustache
On President’s Day 2012, The American Mustache Institute introduced the Million Mustache March in support of the Stimulus To Allow Critical Hair Expenses, or the STACHE Act. If adopted by Congress, the STACHE Act would provide up to a $250.00 annual tax refund for Mustached Americans. (…) For every Million Mustache March participant, America’s leading […]
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La dernière chance des Républicains
On the other hand, if they lose their bid to unseat Obama, they will have mortgaged their future for nothing at all. And over the last several months, it has appeared increasingly likely that the party’s great all-or-nothing bet may land, ultimately, on nothing. In which case, the Republicans will have turned an unfavorable outlook […]
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Bossypants en 8 citations
Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of. I had grown up as the whitest girl in a very Greek neighborhood, but in the eyes of my new classmates, I was Frida Kahlo in leggings. I think God designed our mouths to die first to help us slowly transition […]
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Enfant du millénaire
Heather McGhee est à la tête d’un think tank américain progressiste et parle brillamment de l’anxiété aux États-Unis autour de la notion de service public et de communauté. Elle explique que les Américains en sont venus à ne même plus imaginer que les services publics pouvaient être une solution à leurs problèmes, suite à la […]
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Gay revolution in the workplace
Companies are competing with each other to produce the most imaginative gay-friendly policies. American Express has an internal pride network with more than 1,000 members. Cisco gives gay workers a bonus to make up for an anomaly in the American tax code. (If you are married, the cost of various insurance premiums is deducted from […]
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Ally : Howard Stern
Howard Stern défend Ellen Degeneres et Rosie O’Donnell, et revient sur l’article incroyable de Rolling Stone au sujet de la guerre révoltante menée contre les homos par les chrétiens crétins du parti Républicain. We need all the allies we can get.
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« True » and « Important »
We’re now left in a situation where (a) individuals who WANT to inform themselves, about almost anything, have a richer array of sources than ever before in history; (b) people who want to express their views or offer testimony have fewer barriers to do it than ever before; (c) news organizations to address conditions (a) […]
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The war on gay teens
I ask for a show of hands: How many of you feel safe at school? Of the 19 kids assembled, two raise their hands. The feeling of insecurity continues to reverberate particularly through the Anoka-Hennepin middle schools these days, in the wake of the district’s ninth suicide. In May, Northdale Middle School’s Jordan Yenor, a […]
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Rue McClanahan Receiving Her First Emmy Award For The Golden Girls
«Don’t you know? Every kick’s a boost. (…) I’m not going to mention the people who gave me… the kicks. But you know who your are. And you’ll be in the book.»
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The Wild Parrots of San Francisco
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is a 2005 documentary film directed, produced, and edited by Judy Irving. It chronicles the relationship between Mark Bittner, an unemployed musician who is living rent-free in a cabin in Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, California, and a flock of feral parrots (cherry-headed and two blue-crowned conures) that he […]
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New York in the 80’s
The work of Steven Siegel recently caught our eye, and we are happy to bring you 24 beautiful photographs taken of New York in the 1980s. Mr. Siegel himself notes: « When young people today look at my shots from the 1980s, they are aghast. To them, New York of the 1980s is almost unrecognizable. » […]
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Sing along
Un piou-piou s’invite sur la scène d’un festival de bluegrass (1’25). C’est l’instant Blanche Neige.
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Kill Hollywood
After the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Property Act were shelved on Friday, some Web sites and venture capitalists went on the offensive against the people and companies behind the controversial piracy bills. Y Combinator, an early stage investment company, announced on its Web site that it planned to finance start-up companies that […]
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Stool mouvement
» Tig Notaro on Conan. That’s dry. (And butch.)
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Mets ta barbe dans ma bouche
La délicate Ke$ha vient de lancer un blog professant son amour de la barbe, Put your beard in my mouth. Je crois que c’est tout ce qu’il y a à en dire, en fait.