March 2009
13 posts
“If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot...”
– [Bertrand] Russell’s Teapot, via Wikipedia
(WTF?!) Asian American Student Rejects 'Demeaning'...
How about some more WTF moments:
via Sioux City Journal
STORM LAKE, Iowa — Lori Phanachone is a member of the National Honor Society, has a 3.9 grade point average and ranks seventh in the senior class of about 119 at Storm Lake High School. But school officials have told her she is considered to be illiterate based on her refusal to satisfactorily complete the English Language Development...
what happens when you work on a lab report for too...
me: contributions to solubility: hydrophilic residues?
friend: that's what i went with
the best policy is to go with the obvious choice
me: hahaha
anything else?
magic?
friend: 2nd best choice
me: LOL
it's called karma, bitch
via Spike.com
According to a recent interview with the Tucson morning radio show Johnjay & Rich, teeny popper Miley Cyrus spilled the beans that she was given the cold shoulder by her mostest favorite band in the entire universe at the Grammy Awards last month.
The band, Radiohead (?!), who was performing at the show, was in a dressing room only four doors down from Ms. Cyrus. Miley had her...
“One of the most difficult things to grasp about white privilege is that it...”
– Comment #50 from “What is the Cost of Racism?” at Racialicious
Your daily WTFUCK moment, brought to you by...
angry asian man
Soon after Dartmouth College announced that it had appointed Dr. Jim Yong Kim as the school’s next president — the Ivy League’s first Asian American president — the racist comments started flowing, including a widely-distributed email from the Generic Good Morning Message (GGMM), a student-written/edited “tongue-in-cheek” daily news update:...
the cost of racism
via resist racism
Another way that racism harms white people is by denying them the ability to develop their critical thinking. This is due in part to the constant, regular reinforcement that white is right. White people are raised in an environment in which they are regularly assured of their superiority. Their experts are white, like them. And they often live in segregation, thus denying them...
Flu trends across the US based on Google search... →
