I have had the opportunity to see most of the bands who have helped shape my musical tastes, including French punk legends Bérurier Noir, the anti-fascist skinhead band Brigada Flores Magon, Westbound Train, and Toots and the Maytals. I haven't seen Johnny Cash live, but he's dead, so I have an excuse for that ( Read more... )

So, apparently someone took Justin Bieber's song u smile and made it 800x slower. The result is that a 3:17 second pop song turned into a 35:29 incredibly hypnotic piece of ambient music. Give it a listen. It's sort of like having a prolonged case of Bieber fever, complete with delirious hallucinations ( Read more... )

I should probably update this one day. It's been almost four months since I last wrote anything here, which is pretty much the longest I've ever gone without making an update (the exception being the summer I spent in France, but I had another blog then which I updated pretty regularly ( Read more... )

I just wrote a 30-page paper about gay liberation in Vancouver between 1964-71 and I think I fucking rocked it. We'll see if the prof grading it agrees ( Read more... )

U.S. soldier Joshua Tabor waterboards his daughter, 4, because she couldn't recite alphabet: police

A GI waterboarded his 4-year-old daughter in their suburban Tacoma, Wash., home because she couldn't recite the alphabet, police reported ( Read more... )

2008: The conservative government moves mountains to help a white Canadian woman convicted of fraud in Mexico get out of jail.

2003-2009: The canadian government moves mountains to prevent returning Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Canadian citizen from Sudan, from returning home after being falsely arrested and tortured, even after the RCMP and CSIS admit ( Read more... )

Howard Zinn died.

Now, this may not seem like a big deal to some, but I can say with certainty that Howard Zinn's work is on the very short list of books that have changed my life. A lot of people have read A People's History of the United States and I'd be surprised if one of them walked away from it with an unchanged view of history. Howard ( Read more... )

Casper the commuting cat killed by hit-and-run driver

The tale of Casper the commuting cat, who would politely queue with bus passengers before contentedly riding around Plymouth, made headlines and raised smiles around the world ( Read more... )

One of the reasons I love historians (or at least the cool ones)/being one:

Historians Take Stand To Explain The Origins Of Marriage

Today, expert testimony begins in Perry v. Schwarzenegger - the trial to overturn Proposition 8 in California, and two historians - one specializing in marriage, the other in gay rights - are preparing to take the ( Read more... )

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If it's wrong to love cute little kittens eating from chop sticks, then I just don't want to be right.