The police claim, as Mark Donahue, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, told the New York Times last week, that audio recording of police officers while performing their duty “can affect how an officer does his job on the street.” Well of course it does. The whole purpose of the newsgathering function of a free press is to do just that. As Jonathan Turley notes, without citizens recording police misconduct, America wouldn’t have known of the Rodney King beatings.
This is a must-read. The first amendment is under serious attack, and the police are the people I trust least to be making calls on privacy rights. Let’s hope to hell this gets fixed before the G8 summit…
Three regulators did indeed ring warning bells — at the right time, in the right places, and loud enough for other banking and financial system overseers. All three were women: Brooksley Born, Sheila Bair and Susan Bies. All three were ignored.
remember that one time you totally jacked this from our brudder? good execution, but credit where credit is due, kid.
Bryan had tweeted about “diggin’ Marilyn Monroe up” and that he would “go and destroy America.” When the two arrived, they were questioned for five hours and held in cells for 12 hours before being put on a flight home, despite Bryan attempting to explain that “destroy” is British slang for “partying.
She did the Secretary of State job, she was a G, she held it down, she didn’t cry. Obama will support her, and she’ll be the first woman president,” he told the AP at a Sundance premiere.
Quote of the day. Do not care that Hilary has repeatedly announced she’s retiring to rest and *nudge nudge* spend time with her family (*cough* grandchildren *cough*). With an Ice-T endorsement, the white house is the only possible next stop.
I’m a little upset with the idea that this is the future of poetry. I’d like for that to be more like poetry.
This is, however, a cool future for something entirely different.
Ignoring the lack of acknowledgement of intersectionality between Australians and other groups, and the fact that these all seem to be male skeletons, this is a nice little gesture!
Really, it is nice, I’m just having trouble keeping my hyper-critical voice in my head this morning.
Cynthia Nixon is taking a lot of heat right now for her assertion that for her, sexuality was a choice, and that fact doesn’t make her humanity or family any less valid. Good on her. I agree that the “born this way” line of thinking is in no small part pandering to bigots, as if who I sleep with would be anybody’s business under any circumstances. I respect the experience of anyone and everyone who believes they were born with a certain sexuality or gender identity, but I certainly believe circumstances and choices helped make me who I am today. I’ve never identified as anything other than a lesbian, but that doesn’t mean I couldn’t have.
Anyway, good for her. We need a bigger tent that includes all queer people, not a petty attempt to disown those who don’t toe the party line. Amen.
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