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gwydion* Modern Iran. "Ramita Navai Extended Interview:"
* Bob "Forced Ultrasound" McDonnell and his wife got convicted of corruption and rightly so.
* "Archaeological survey gives Kingston insight into the past:" http://kingston.wickedlocal.com/article/20140726/NEWS/140727722
* "Ancient Maya Cities Found in Jungle:" http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/three-ancient-maya-cities-found-in-jungle-140815.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1
* "Excavation ‘very likely’ to redefine the Zoroastrianism’s origin:" http://english.cntv.cn/2014/08/12/VIDE1407843119676688.shtml
* "European man's remains found in ancient Chinese tomb:" http://www.newkerala.com/news/2014/fullnews-92128.html#.VAiYDmO1Wi-
* "Did Chinese mariners reach Australia before the Europeans?:" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/08/12/did-chinese-mariners-reach-australia-before-the-europeans/
* "Finding history in Easton: Dig seeks proof of America's first free black community:" http://archive.delmarvanow.com/article/20130727/NEWS/307270044/Easton-dig-seeks-proof-of-America-s-first-free-black-community
* "Gender Nonconforming Teen Sues SC DMV:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/09/gender-nonconforming-teen-sues-sc-dmv.html
* I wasn't going to say anything about Joan Rivers dying, but all the misty eyed inaccurate tributes are making me queasy. She wasn't first. Moms Mabley and Phyllis Diller were there first. If you haven't seen the Whoopi Goldberg tribute to Moms Mabley, go watch it. She was amazing. (Seriously, a lesbian woman of color who was extremely funny and got away with working extremely blue at a time when all of that was illegal.) I never much liked insult comedy as a genre whether Joan Rivers or Don Rickles or Lisa Lampenelli. It's unpleasant and Joan River's act was nasty, homophobic, racist, misogynistic, and virulently transphobic in an incredibly ugly way on stage and in private. Fuck her! I do not approve of people attacking her for the choices she made with her body. It's her body, and those surgeries were her choice. I feel that her love of hate speech and dehumanizing treatment of other women cis and most particularly trans ones is and always has been fair game. She piled racism on top of her transmisogyny and doubled down on that when she was called on it. I find all this soft focus nostalgia disgusting. I will not dance on her grave, but I'm not sorry she's no longer out spewing her particular brand of hate anymore.
* "Police Militarization in America:"
* "Masters of Sexism:"
* "Celebrity Nude Photo Scandal:"
* "Star Hack: The Nude Generation:"
* Last Night, I went to take books back to the night drop, and there was that particular scent of the end of the summer blowing in off the bay, and the scent of damp cement. There was a lady smoking what I strongly suspected was my father's brand of cigarettes on an upper balcony near my car. It smelled like the turning of seasons....
* Fundraiser to pay insurance and back rent: http://djinni.livejournal.com/507872.html
* Bob "Forced Ultrasound" McDonnell and his wife got convicted of corruption and rightly so.
* "Archaeological survey gives Kingston insight into the past:" http://kingston.wickedlocal.com/article/20140726/NEWS/140727722
* "Ancient Maya Cities Found in Jungle:" http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/three-ancient-maya-cities-found-in-jungle-140815.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1
* "Excavation ‘very likely’ to redefine the Zoroastrianism’s origin:" http://english.cntv.cn/2014/08/12/VIDE1407843119676688.shtml
* "European man's remains found in ancient Chinese tomb:" http://www.newkerala.com/news/2014/fullnews-92128.html#.VAiYDmO1Wi-
* "Did Chinese mariners reach Australia before the Europeans?:" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/08/12/did-chinese-mariners-reach-australia-before-the-europeans/
* "Finding history in Easton: Dig seeks proof of America's first free black community:" http://archive.delmarvanow.com/article/20130727/NEWS/307270044/Easton-dig-seeks-proof-of-America-s-first-free-black-community
* "Gender Nonconforming Teen Sues SC DMV:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/09/gender-nonconforming-teen-sues-sc-dmv.html
* I wasn't going to say anything about Joan Rivers dying, but all the misty eyed inaccurate tributes are making me queasy. She wasn't first. Moms Mabley and Phyllis Diller were there first. If you haven't seen the Whoopi Goldberg tribute to Moms Mabley, go watch it. She was amazing. (Seriously, a lesbian woman of color who was extremely funny and got away with working extremely blue at a time when all of that was illegal.) I never much liked insult comedy as a genre whether Joan Rivers or Don Rickles or Lisa Lampenelli. It's unpleasant and Joan River's act was nasty, homophobic, racist, misogynistic, and virulently transphobic in an incredibly ugly way on stage and in private. Fuck her! I do not approve of people attacking her for the choices she made with her body. It's her body, and those surgeries were her choice. I feel that her love of hate speech and dehumanizing treatment of other women cis and most particularly trans ones is and always has been fair game. She piled racism on top of her transmisogyny and doubled down on that when she was called on it. I find all this soft focus nostalgia disgusting. I will not dance on her grave, but I'm not sorry she's no longer out spewing her particular brand of hate anymore.
* "Police Militarization in America:"
* "Masters of Sexism:"
* "Celebrity Nude Photo Scandal:"
* "Star Hack: The Nude Generation:"
* Last Night, I went to take books back to the night drop, and there was that particular scent of the end of the summer blowing in off the bay, and the scent of damp cement. There was a lady smoking what I strongly suspected was my father's brand of cigarettes on an upper balcony near my car. It smelled like the turning of seasons....
* Fundraiser to pay insurance and back rent: http://djinni.livejournal.com/507872.html