Friday Blogwhoring

by matttbastard

Have been out of the loop, so this is largely a catch-up edition. Anyone who has any recommendations (whether of their own work or someone elses) feel free to join in the orgy via comments. As always, much love (and respect) to all.

(edit: I still heart–and respect–teh Shakes)

Vox ex Machina: Feminist blogosphere: Love it or leave it (h/t Kevin)

Women of Color Blog: teaching full frontal feminism

Black Amazon: I really tried.

Problem Chylde: A Quick Note

misscripchick: BA and BFP always get me going

Three-Toed Sloth: Last Words on Saletan (h/t Crooked Timber)

Prometheus 6: And by the way, Saletan never actually admitted to being a dick

Shark-fu @ Shakespeare’s Sister: Black and Missing

AngryBlackBitch: A worthy discussion that we need to stop dancing around Part I… and A worthy discussion that we need to stop dancing around Part II…

Birth Pangs: Not only do Sens suck, their ‘Better Halves’ support fetish fetishists and Sens still suck, but their fans are pretty nice

Politics ‘n’ Poetry: Canada Aglow for Dubya’s GNEP

April Reign: Our Glorious Dead

Hope and Onions: Postcards from the Toronto Vigil in memory of Robert Dziekanski

A Creative Revolution: You have to pay for your own expertise…Real or fake.

The Galloping Beaver: Nah! No conflict of interest there.

Zuky: Roundup — Fascism, Racism, Resistance (So much bloggy nourishment to digest over the weekend–thanks, Kai!)

unrepentant old hippie: More slogan co-opting

PoliTits: Stop Me Before I Blog Again (DCup, you get a big ol’ smooshy hug for posting a most awesome Weakerthans vid. Shall reciprocate in a li’l bit *smooshes*)

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Tuesday Blogwhoring

by matttbastard

This one goes out to my fellow bastard.logicians. Love.

(Melissa McEwan effin’ owns like Snorlax!)

Designated Protest Zone: Power, Privilege, and “Challenging Ourselves”

Intrapolitics: The Space Between Ethnocentrism and Race Supremacy (h/t Prometheus 6)

POGGE: On blood-drenched metaphors

thwap’s schoolyard: “Don’t Tase Me Bro” – Vancouver International Airport Edition

Shakesville: Killing Your Wife is the Best Gift You Can Give Yourself This Holiday Season

Hatewatch: FBI Releases Hate Crime Statistics

Culture Kitchen: Hate Crimes Rising in America

Birth Pangs: Be careful with my box! and Paternity Blues

Justice is a Woman with a Sword: Finally, an intelligent film with … um… bite?

The Newshoggers: Relative progress in Iraq

Feminist Peace Network: Unilever Ditches Self Esteem as a Marketing Concept in Favor of Good Ol’ Misogyny

Daisy’s Dead Air: Bob Jones and Billy Graham

Creekside: On cowardice

Too Sense: FBI Convicted Thousands On Faulty Evidence…Then Forgot To Tell Them

The Heathlander: Walled In

Feline Formal Shorts: Reactions

Zenpundit: Recommended Reading (update your bookmarks – the new digs look spiffy, Mark!)

Who Is IOZ? Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! She explained. (Yeah, that’s pretty much my feelings re: US presidential debates and Wolf Blitzer in a nutshell, too)

Politics ‘n’ Poetry: Nuclear Guardianship: We Need to Know

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Monday Blogwhoring

by matttbastard

Love endures forever, like a candy apple grey cockroach waiting for the end of a nuclear winter.

(Bow down to the Queen Cunt of Fuck Mountain, brethren.)

Baghdad Burning: Bloggers Without Borders… (h/t Michael van der Galiën)

Shiraz Socialist: Biji Kurdistan

All About Race: Faith in Color: Kneejerk Interpretations

Zuky: Guest Post — M’s Roundup on Health, Law, Cosby (goddamn, but nobody link farms like TBFKAS)

My Private Casbah: Jugend Dient Dem Führers (of the USA government) and More on Martin Lee Anderson: The Disability Aspect

Idealistic Pragmatist: What makes for an effective opposition in a minority parliament?

Birth Pangs: Misogyny and State Murder

The Fifth Column: Why We Need FPTP

They Call Me “Mister Sinister”: Harper’s Little Buddy

Politique Vert: How The NDP Can Win The Next Election and Harper and Layton: Too Close For Comfort

Shakesville: Huckabee is a Disingenuous Coward (preach!)

Abandoned Stuff: Killing us Softly 3

misscripchick’s weblog: this makes me tired

Marginal Notes: 2010: The Year of the Sex Olympics

Comment is free: Blowing the whistle on the Iraq war

The Belgravia Dispatch: “Serious Consequences”

Too Sense: Giuliani Campaign Staffer A Big Fan Of The “N-Word”

the field negro: Nas And the “N” word (h/t dNA)

a k8, a cat, a mission: All new LOLsomething: the LOLfetus (h/t Lilith Attack)

Blue Gal: It’s a woman/man thing. We wouldn’t understand

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Jena 6 Update: Memo To Alanis – THIS Is Ironic (I Really Do Think)

by matttbastard

x-posted @ Comments From Left Field

Jena, LA Mayor Murphy McMillin: not the sharpest fishhook in the tacklebox:

McMillin has insisted that his town is being unfairly portrayed as racist—an assertion the mayor repeated in an interview with Richard Barrett, the leader of the Nationalist Movement, a white supremacist group based in Learned, Miss., who asked McMillin to “set aside some place for those opposing the colored folks.”

“I am not endorsing any demonstrations, but I do appreciate what you are trying to do,” Barrett quoted McMillin as saying. “Your moral support means a lot.”

(H/T Peek)

(FYI, This is the same Richard Barrett who also interviewed Justin Barker, after allegedly fudging his racist pedigree when questioned by Barker’s family).

Oh, and remember when I predicted that the noose is going to experience a resurgence in iconic significance among the white power set? I can sure call ’em, sometimes. More details on the ongoing pushback are provided by David Neiwert (who also offers incontrovertible evidence that my old buddy John Gibson is indeed an odious sack of sea lion shit – if there was ever any doubt).

Elsewhere: via The Thin Black Duke, M (aka The Blogger Formerly Known As Sylvia) guesting @ Kai Chang’s place:

Very simply, the Jena Six is not a matter of guilt or innocence. If you think this case is about dancing and singing with Al Sharpton in Jena while wearing black, go home or bury some soap or something. If you view this case as a stepping stone for your own self-aggrandizement here there and everywhere, sit at home and think a few seconds before stepping back out again. If you think this case is only about freeing these young men, you’re half-steppin’. If you view the Jena Six incident as uppity newcomer Negroes wanting to start some ruckus, then please go back to your guard post under your bridge. Denial about a person’s criminal actions in a case is unwanted. This fight is not about what we can do to stop people from being criminals (though there’s no denying that goal is important); it is about what happens when those people are already within the criminal justice system and cannot afford an OJ-style legal Dream Team.

Kevin also points to this post by elle, phd, who notices history repeating in the predictably (and pathetically) defensive reaction of the (white) blogosphere after it was justifiably called out for collective indifference towards Jena (remember: Race is tough!).

Related: David Margolick looks back at Elizabeth Eckford, Hazel Bryan and the photo that captured what became an iconic moment in the civil rights movement.

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