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Shoplifting is wrong. What about shoplifting in a fake mustache for a film on the evils of corporatocracy?

Clay Violand, who miraculously survived the VA-Tech shootings, tells his story to NPR. He was in French class when they all heard the gunshots. Violand says Cho ended up returning several times to shoot up the room, hitting everyone but skipping Violand each time. Why? Violand has no idea.
“I thought I was shot and [...]

Dave Chappelle hosted a sort of marathon block party Sunday night at the site of Michael “Kramer” Richards’ infamous descent last fall into an unfunny madness of racial slurs. Chappelle basically camped out on the stage, riffing for more than six hours, from roughly 10:30 pm until 4:30 am. He set a Laugh Factory record [...]

Virginia Tech Koreans— and let’s face it, members of Virginia Tech’s entire Asian community— are being served a double helping of tragedy now that the racist backlash to the shootings has begun.
Young-je Ko told Salon’s Joe Eaton that “Korean students have been e-mailing and calling each other since the release of [the shooter's] name [...]

On this tragic and upsetting day in which at least 29 33 are confirmed dead and dozens more injured in shootings on the VTU campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, a shout-out to the staff of the campus newspaper, the Collegiate Times.
The student paper originally broke the story and continues releasing updates:
Monday, April 16th 2007 9:47AM
Shots were [...]

 

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In a world of faux news, real fake news is the only news worth watching… As if we all hadn’t figured that much out already! Hat tip to Salon for the reference.
NYT: “Americans may have more news outlets today than two decades ago, but they still don’t know much more about current events than they [...]

Though we are officially into Imus discussion overdrive, I felt that there are a couple of things I would like to leave you with (including music videos…!!!) before old, tired, disgraced Imus slouches off into the sunset (or, more likely, some type of blockbuster deal in satellite radio).
1. Like so many braying donkeys, most [...]

There’s King on war; there’s Malcom on war; and there’s Mos doing Malcom on war: “How are you going to be violent in Korea (Iraq) and not be violent in Mississippi…?”

WASHINGTON, 13 APRIL— Wire services are reporting that Don Imus, former shock-jock and longtime opponent of political correctness, plans to relaunch his canceled radio show not as a satellite broadcast, as expected, but as an email transcript show. The new “Imus Email in the Morning” show will be delivered daily to subscribers and paid for [...]

Filmmaker Kevin Morrison recently completed a short work to mark the 40th anniversary of a speech entitled “Beyond Vietnam” delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. at New York’s Riverside church on April 4, 1967. The original speech, given during the height of American involvement in Vietnam, is a summation of the strong antiwar views that [...]

He opposed war because it went against everything he believed about how to live life. That’s why the speeches are so damn good!

While controversy spilled over the airwaves Tuesday, a storm erupted at my own school, raising questions about the power of protest. Tuesday morning, members of the Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation (SCALE) at the University of Southern California decided to take a drastic step in their seven-year campaign to get the university to stop doing [...]

Hip-hop didn’t make Imus a racist. He got that from mainstream American pop culture!

Public awareness has done very little to help the people of Darfur. The genocide continues, killing more than 300,000 and displacing millions. So maybe people need to SEE the genocide to get motivated enough to stop it.
That’s the thinking of Google and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC. They have worked together to create [...]

He was slumped in a chair in the corner, face pointing straight up at the ceiling, fingers curled stiff, long hair matted and slick with blood at the sides of his head. The gun lay on the floor pointing toward the door of the backyard shack where he was found. He was breathing but he [...]