July 2012
53 posts
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I really had to have a long conversation with myself to talk said self out of spending $500 to get Robert Englund to record my voicemail. Still debating.
Black wedding banned by Baptist Church →
myfoxal.com
It was to be their big day, but a Jackson couple says the church where they were planning to wed turned them away because of their race.
They had set the date and printed and mailed out all the invitations, but the day before wedding bells were to ring for Charles and Te’Andrea Wilson, they say they got some bad news from the pastor.
“The church congregation had decided no black could be married at that church, and that if he went on to marry her, then they would vote him out the church,” said Charles Wilson.
Guess we shouldn’t expect much progress on gay marriage when we won’t even let black people get married.
Ain't It Cool!
Ain’t it Cool News has given the Leslie Vernon fans another wonderful write up!
Check out their article! Reblog and spread the word!
Why NBC and the American media are an embarrassment →
bobcesca.com
Rather than cut directly to the opening ceremony, NBC opened their evening coverage with Bob Costas consulting Tom Brokaw on the “controversy” surrounding London’s supposed lack of preparedness for the games.
The non-existent “controversy” was, of course, a reference to Mitt Romney’s disastrous tour of London wherein he made a complete ass of himself by accusing the city of being unprepared. The resulting British media shit-storm and rebuke from British politicians was a sight to behold, and not just because we got to eat popcorn while observing from across the pond. It was also magnificent because Romney was flat wrong, and under similar circumstances here in America our media would not inform you that Romney is wrong. They would instead play the role of faux concern troll and ask what “the other side” has to say about it.
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I’ll Miss You, Chick-Fil-A →
thedailybanter.com
It’s not even worth getting into how, in the year 2012, there are still people with semi-functional cerebral cortexes willing to grovel at the altar of a mythology invented two millennia ago by people who literally knew nothing about anything, and to allow it to inform their prejudices against men and women who haven’t done a damn thing to hurt them. We could be here all day with that one. But what Cathy’s doing is throwing down the gauntlet because he believes not only that he’s right but that his business won’t suffer one bit by demonizing a large segment of the population.
Judging by guys like Mike Huckabee, who’ve rallied around Chick-Fil-A and its, I suppose, God-given right to discriminate against gay people, Cathy may be at least partially right. He knows even a chicken sandwich can be a weapon in the culture war these days; that’s how far-gone we are.
#RockLobster
AV Club reviews "The Dark Knight Rises" →
avclub.com
With The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan expands on a comprehensive nightmare of the early 21st century, again playing The Scarecrow to the many millions whose anxieties complete the illusion. He’s made a horror trilogy in the guise of summertime action-adventure, a mind-blowing pulp allegory for America’s worst-case scenario: Terrorist networks, the surveillance state, loose nukes, kangaroo courts, all-out class warfare, the grim threat of fascism on one end and anarchy on the other. And at its center is an all-too-human hero whose courage and integrity masks a crippling uncertainty over whether he can beat back the darkness.
Banning cosplay for the illusion of safety →
thinkprogress.org
AMC Theatres said it will not let any guests in costumes or face-covering masks into the theaters, and issued a ban on fake weapons. The company added that anyone wanting a refund in light of this new policy will be granted one. “We are taking necessary precautions to ensure our guests who wish to enjoy a movie this weekend can do so with as much peace of mind as possible in these circumstances”
How would a ban on costumes have stopped this morning’s tragedy? Please, someone explain this to me. This is pure American reactionism: we get hurt and we come up with something really, really stupid that doesn’t even remotely address the problem.
Aurora, CO shooting
I was shocked and saddened this morning when I came home from the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises to the news of the massacre in Aurora, Colorado, leaving at least 12 dead and 38 injured.
In case you haven’t heard yet, a gunman ran into the theater, unleashed tear gas on the crowd and began opening fire. He is now in custody as police try to disarm his booby trapped apartment.
As always with these incidents, people are rushing in with their solution on how this tragedy could’ve been prevented. Unfortunately, no one ever wants to talk about the very scary and depressing reality of these mass murders: there is no prevention.
The first instinct of people from my political viewpoint is gun control. I do believe in gun control and our gun laws are so relaxed that the rest of the world looks at us in utter horror. But while gun control is an admirable goal, it won’t stop these situations. Stricter gun laws could go a long way in keeping firearms out of the hands of your run-of-the-mill criminals and perhaps even some wannabe militia building a small arsenal in their basement for the incoming “government insurrection” or whatever tinfoil hat conspiracy Alex Jones told them to worry about between their trips to Burger King, but you’re not going to stop the truly depraved.
You can outlaw all the guns, but they’ll steal them, buy them on the black market, or just rig up a pipe bomb instead. If a mad man wants to kill a dozen people, he will find a way. It’s a scary fact of life.
On the other side of the political aisle, I wasn’t surprised someone like congressman Louie Gohmert (Scumbag-TX) just three hours to wonder, “was there nobody that was carrying a gun that could have stopped this guy more quickly?” Yes, because when a gunmen bursts into a dark, crowded, loud room and fills it with tear gas, crossfire is a great idea. I’m not saying guns should never be used to protect yourself, but if you think armed moviegoers was the solution here, you’re psychotic.
I also read this morning that the suspect’s mother is not surprised that her son did this, leading people to call for better mental health screenings. I certainly agree with this goal as well, but let’s not kid ourselves, denial is an extremely powerful force. Hindsight is 20/20 and we’ll wonder for weeks (or until the media finds a new toy to play with) why this guy wasn’t in a padded cell, but in many cases, we don’t know or don’t want to admit we know until it’s too late.
But it won’t stop us from looking for something to blame. Since the suspect is a young, white male, that rules out terrorism, so I guess next we’ll have to see what video games he was playing and what music he was listening to; perhaps since it was at a theater, movies will be the culprit. It’s been awhile since we could pin something like this on such an easy target, I wouldn’t be surprised if Jack Thompson came out of forced retirement or if we decided to publicly crucify Marilyn Manson.
Whoever or whatever takes the blame, it’s a lot easier than facing the horrific reality that crazy people are going to do crazy things regardless of motivation and there’s not much we can do to stop them. Perhaps it’s crude to quote The Dark Knight given the circumstances, but “some men just want to watch the world burn.”
6 Walmart heirs have more money than 49 million Americans... combined →
epi.org
the Walton family wealth is as large as the bottom 48.8 million families in the wealth distribution (constituting 41.5 percent of all American families) combined.
