January
27
2012
Boy do we have job listings. Twenty-five pages worth to be exact. This week’s job opportunities come from the Web site of Bernard Parks. Isn’t that thoughtful? Wonder if other local politicians besides Curren Price and Parks list jobs on their Web sites? They should.
As much lip service as Maxine Waters gives to creating jobs in LA one would imagine she has a whole Web site besides her own dedicated to jobs in LA. We’ll have to check her out for next week’s listings. And if she don’t have any we’re going to be sure and put her on blast about it, too.
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January
27
2012
Friday, February 10th at 7pm
African American Cultural Center
3018 W. 48th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90043
Contact phone: 323-299-6124
January
26
2012
We knew it would be just a matter of time before Mitt Romney’s Mormon money trail landed on something anti-gay. Sure enough, Raw Story reported on Thursday that Romney’s money “indirectly” helped fund an “pray away the gay” therapy group.
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January
26
2012
Adam Sandler in the movie Jack And Jill
From the UK Guardian:
Adam Sandler’s latest comedy is shallow, scatological, lazy, crass and brazenly commercial. That’s not news. But Jack and Jill may also mark something more significant: the moment when cinematic cross-dressing officially stops being funny. Sandler plays both twins of the title, and his Jill is pretty much what you would fear: just a screechingly irritating man in bad drag. Jill pulls lumps of wax out of her ears, leaves big sweaty patches on the bed, and defecates noisily after eating Mexican food. It’s funny because it’s a woman doing it, you see? If you had to identify the exact second of comic death, it would probably come at the close of a scene in which Jack disguises himself as Jill (so, Sandler without a wig puts on a wig) in order to seduce Al Pacino but then the melons fall out of his bra!
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January
26
2012
You had to know it was coming sooner or later. Here we go: moral fiber, family values, trust me, three-point plan, earmarks, tough question, children are our future, Washington outsider, jobs, my opponent — ready to throw up yet?
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January
26
2012
Ugandan gay-rights advocate David Kato (1964-2011)
From Religiondispatches.org:
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the murder of Ugandan gay-rights advocate David Kato, 46, who was killed after months of right-wing threats – most notably being featured on the front page of a Ugandan right-wing newspaper. This anniversary should remind us of some important lessons.
First, right-wing rhetoric leads to right-wing violence. Kato’s murder comes the same week as yet another LGBT suicide, this time of 14-year-old Philip Parker, a victim of bullying in his school in Tennessee. In both cases the religious and political sources of hateful rhetoric have deplored, condemned, and above all distanced themselves from these horrible and unexpected tragedies.
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January
25
2012
Well just when we thought we’ve seen everything another Republican comes along and drops our jaws even lower. Mark Oxner, a Republican congressional candidate from Florida, released a 39-second spot this week depicting the Obama administration as a slave ship.
Here’s what the Huffington Post says about it:
The video features several men and woman on a boat–”The U.S.S. Obamaship”–discussing how “this ship” has given them various benefits, such as a bank bailout and “free health care for life.”
The video also includes shots of children rowing the boat while a man holding a whip watches closely.
You know we honestly didn’t realize how backwater Republicans are. We don’t know if we should be more frightened than offended. These people actually have no concept. Bleh—-we could go on ‘n’ on. Why bother?
Yes, you have to see it to believe it:
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