June, 2017 archive
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
It don’t get much fiendlier than this.
The woman died Monday afternoon after being stricken in the bathroom while on the American Airlines Boeing 737 flying from Dallas to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, said MSP spokesman Patrick Hogan. Authorities have yet to identify the woman or address what led to her death.
Art Endress was on the flight and said an emergency medical technician (EMT) came aboard with other responders and removed the woman from the back and had her by the hands as he “dragged her down the aisle” as she was faceup and naked from the waist down.
The Sound of My Own Voice 0
I have a new podcast up at Hacker Public Radio.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your friends.
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Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Dialectic 0
Badtux is not optimistic.
“I Wouldn’t Want Anything Bad To Happen To Your Nice Little Treaty Organization” 0
Noz on the Trumpling of NATO:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
This is your country on Trump.
“Oh, my god, it’s me being lynched,” Aina Adewunmi told CBSLA. “Looking at an image of yourself like that hurts.”
Aina is new to Palisades, having just transferred to the charter school back in January. She said she’s mostly felt welcomed and accepted by students there, but three boys in particular started to use racial slurs.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family value.
The man was identified as the girl’s father. Two boys, her brothers, were in the room at the time of the shooting as well.
“They said their father had been showing them a firearm and (the) firearm discharged, striking his daughter in the head,” Gonzales said.
Dog Gone* 0
Canine recruit found to be insufficiently fiendly.
The story goes on to say he was adopted by the governor of Queensland.
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*Sorry. Couldn’t resiste.
How Stuff Works, Trickle-On Economics Dept. 0
Warning: Language.
Groups Think 0
Afshan Jafar, professor of sociology at Connecticut College, discusses how stereotypes reinforce stigma and bigotry. He’s discussing contemporary stereotypes of Muslims, but he could as easily be discussing any other group target for bigots to take the blame.
Here’s a bit; follow the link for the rest.
As a professor of sociology at Connecticut College, this is a lesson I teach my students early, by asking them to finish the sentence: “Muslim women are … ?” which they do readily and predictably (by using words such as “oppressed,” “silenced,” “passive,” “subjugated” and sometimes by using what they consider to be positive words such as “beautiful” or “strong”). I then ask them to imagine instead that the question is “Christian women are … ?” The second question makes no sense, they say. How, they ask, could we speak for all Christian women or make a universal remark about them?