a word… used invectively as a term of abuse or contempt, to express hostility, etc.
At the Massachusetts Statehouse there is a push to stop using a word activists call outdated, derogatory and hurtful. ... the word “retarded,”…
They’re asking lawmakers and Statehouse visitors to sign a pledge to stop using the “r-word” in anticipation of national day of awareness this Wednesday. ...
Jonah Peppiatt from Cambridge said “If you have an epithet that a large group of people is offended by, I don’t think you should use it.”
03/02 at 11:47 AM •
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The state is not the government.
The UC San Diego student reportedly responsible for hanging a noose last week in a campus library issued a public, but anonymous, apology Monday and said she had no racist motivation.
The noose’s discovery set off protests at a school that is already tense from recent racially charged episodes and triggered condemnations from UC leaders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In a letter published Monday on the front page of the UC San Diego student newspaper, the Guardian, the student wrote that the incident was “a mindless act and stupid mistake” and was not meant to recall the lynching of blacks.
”As a minority student who sympathizes with the students that have been affected by the recent issues on campus, I am distraught to know that I have unintentionally added to their pain,” the student wrote. She was suspended Friday and remains under investigation for a possible hate crime.
The letter is signed “Anonymous UCSD Student” and offers no clues about her identity or ethnicity.
Of course.
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03/02 at 09:48 AM •
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In a July 2008 e-mail, Ivins wrote that “Dick Cheney scares me. The Patriot Act is so unconstitutional it’s not even funny.” He added, “I’m voting for Obama!”
--- 2001 anthrax murderer and Obama supporter Bruce Ivins
That’s funny, Obama not only voted for The Patriot Act, he just this Sunday signed to extend it for another year completely intact.

A woman struggles with bags of toilet paper as looters target a store in Concepcion…
A seven-month-old baby girl survived three days alone with a bullet in her chest beside the bodies of her parents and toddler brother.
Argentines Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, shot their children before killing themselves after making an apparent suicide pact over fears about global warming…
“I found Krav Maga through the Internet,” said Sunde White, 25, a surfer who runs her own plant-maintenance business. “I like this because it makes me stronger for surfing. Now, every part of me is in shape. And as far as the fighting, the fact that it’s totally brutal doesn’t bother me. Anyone who attacks me deserves to get hurt.”
Yeah!
So where’s the “We Are Teh World” for Chile?
[did Andy teabagger Cooper fly down there with his collection of tight t-shirts? I’ve been too busy to check.]
03/01 at 09:41 PM •
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Lt. Minderbinder: Yossarian, I want you to do something for me. I want to serve this to the men. Taste it and let me know what you think.
Yossarian: What is it?
Lt. Minderbinder: Chocolate covered cotton.
Yossarian: What are you crazy?
Lt. Minderbinder: No good huh?
Yossarian: For Christ’s sake you didn’t even take the seeds out.
Lt. Minderbinder: Is it really that bad?
Yossarian: It’s cotton!
Below the fold, so as not to intrude…

ABC News asked Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) about his decision last week to block the short-term extension of unemployment benefits and other measures that expired on Sunday.
Two thousand federal transportation workers were to be furloughed without pay and federal reimbursements to states for highway projects halted Monday as a result of Bunning’s decision to block legislation granting a short-term funding extension to a variety of programs, including the Highway Trust Fund. Bunning complained that the legislation wasn’t paid for…





















