Are Whites still putting on blackface? Yes, right in our back yard--Riverdale, CA. White men and women had 'brown faces' depicting slaves during the Civil War at Riverdale Christian Academy's Senior Prom & 2007 Graduation Celebration. The skits and characters were part of the entertainment.

http://urbanknowledge.blogspot.com/search/label/prejudice ( Read more... )

Hmmm. New car, or this? Decisions decisions...

Seeing as how it's Gay Pride month, I thought I'd pass along this fun little article on the Stonewall Riots.

http://365gay.com/InTime/People/stonewall.htm

The best bit is the full-length reprint of one of the actual news articles covering the Stonewall Riots from 1969: Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Are Stinging Mad.

It's a good thing journalistic ( Read more... )

Warner purrs for Thundercats
'80s animated series heading to bigscreen

Property revolves around a group of humanoid cats (with feline names like Lion-O, Tygra, Panthro and Cheetara) who must flee their planet of Thundera after it's destroyed. Once crash-landing on another planet, Third Earth, they must thwart Mumm-Ra, an evil sorcerer, bent on ( Read more... )

So first the upcoming iPhone (June 29th). Then the Transformers movie (7/4/07).

Now this...

Parallels 3.0 (due out in a few weeks): 3D Graphics: You asked for it, and we delivered. Kick around your favorite Windows-only OpenGL and DirectX games and apps in a virtual machine on your Mac, without shutting down OS X!That makes me so...I just feel ( Read more... )

Avenue Q + the Fiddler on the Roof revival do Everyone's a Little Bit Jewish.

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So yesterday afternoon around 3:40 my cable went out (I know this because I had a clipped TNG ep on my TiVo). I called when I got home around 5, and they said they'd send someone out. I call again around 10, and they said they wouldn't send someone out after normal business hours unless it was a major outage (not just one or two people), so whoever ( Read more... )

Man...I almost spit soda on my keyboard laughing when I read this. What planet do these people come from?

(Topeka, Kansas) Westboro Baptist Church says it intends to state a protest at the funeral of Rev. Jerry Falwell.

Falwell died died Tuesday at age 73. The funeral will be Tuesday at the Thomas Road Baptist Church, the church he founded, in ( Read more... )

So...dilemma.

I need to invest in a manpurse. Basically...when I'm travelling (both for work and pleasure) I'd like somewhere to stash my camera, maps, guidebooks, small purchases, etc.

Ideally, something like this. I really like the looks of that one. Sort of a casual briefcase ( Read more... )

For anyone who's been wondering where the hundreds of thousands of dollars Indiana is spending to produce the "God" plates is going to come from (given that the state is already hurting for cash):

Indiana State Police Troopers recently received these instructions at a recent meeting ( Read more... )