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First, the serious stuff:
Chris Clarke (will my e-crush on him never cease?) has a heartbreaking and brutal post about Haïti. You should read it.

Also on Pandagon, Ilyka has a post about an out-of-control high school in Louisiana where the black students can't so much as catch a bit of shade without the white students threatening to lynch them.

[livejournal.com profile] krinndnz linked to
the recently declassified PowerPoint slides of the Pentagon's *ahem* plan to invade Iraq. I can't make sense of them, and I bet half the people at the Pentagon couldn't either, because the whole point of PowerPoint is to confuse. Actually, the entire post is pretty right-on.

Then the fun stuff:

Also from [livejournal.com profile] krinndnz, two blogs for your edification and amusement: Literally, A Web Log and the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks. I have not looked at the latter in enough detail to ascertain whether "Good" Burger in Toronto is in there, but I hope so.

[livejournal.com profile] dania_audax has a link to a comic that nearly cost me a keyboard this morning: Who Is Your Savior?

Finally, in the Funny or Sad? category, we have this story from [livejournal.com profile] fengi. I'll just quote from the same bit, because...wow:
Al Hurra television, the U.S. government's $63 million-a-year effort at public diplomacy broadcasting in the Middle East, is run by executives and officials who cannot speak Arabic, according to a senior official who oversees the program.

That might explain why critics say the service has recently been caught broadcasting terrorist messages, including an hour-long tirade on the importance of anti-Jewish violence, among other questionable pieces.

Facing tough questions before a congressional panel last week, Broadcasting Board of Governors member Joaquin Blaya admitted none of the senior news managers at the network spoke Arabic when the terrorist messages made it onto the air courtesy of U.S. taxpayer funds. Nor did Blaya himself or any of the other officials at the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees the network.
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Blaya conceded that the top officials in the network's chain of command could not understand what was being said on al Hurra broadcasts...the network's news division also had no assignment desk, he said. That left decisions over al Hurra's content in the hands of its reporters and producers, who are, according to Blaya, hastily-hired Arabic-speaking journalists with insufficient understanding of Western journalistic practices or the network's pro-Western mission.

Date: 2007-05-24 06:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
I remember driving through Mississippi on my way from Jena to New Orleans. There were places where the people (rural blacks) were living in tar paper shacks like one sees in photos from the 1860s. Cabrini Green is pretty grim but it's a hell of a step up on that. I think it's been a long time too since I've heard anybody say in all seriousness, as I did in Jena, "Nigger boy get your eyes of that white girl's ass".

Date: 2007-05-24 07:05 pm (UTC)

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