Becoming typically irate, the Big(ot) Giant Head rages against press attention which accurately reported his racist remarks about eating dinner in Harlem. Being typically inept, he references as “fair” to him articles which in fact describe people finding his remarks offensive, and on his own show manages to completely fail to convince the Reverend Al Sharpton to defend him.
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Boston Dirt Dogs has noticed that for some reason Major League Baseball is selling a New York Yankees 2007 AL East Division Champions Roster T-Shirt. The problem? For one thing, the season isn’t yet over. For another thing, the Yankees are not leading their division. For a third thing, the back of the shirt places the Yankees in the American League West.
“With no evidence except that of ancient hearsay, they can only persuade through appeals to the most vulnerable aspects of the human mind, through menacing insistence on blind faith at the cost of reason,” writes Matthew Chapman in 40 Days and 40 Nights. “As it is considered impolite to talk about faith, let alone examine it, and as neither art nor the press nor schools provide a critical sieve through which it has to pass, the message is clearly conveyed that faith is superior to reason and immune to it, that it exists at a higher realm. And if your religion tells you it is admirable to place faith above reason — and no one disagrees — why would you not apply the same principle, consciously or not, to all other aspects of life?”
“It is offensive to one’s sense of self to imagine this huge expanse of time that came before you and within which you had no relevance,” writes Matthew Chapman in 40 Days and 40 Nights. “No, it is more than offensive; it is terrifying. How much easier — and how much more comforting — to … imagine, in one way or another, a designer who placed you at the center of it all.”
In the latest emailed screed from Restore America’s Bigotry (by the way, the linked URL is the top hit on Google if you search for that phrase, with or without enclosing quotes), David Crowe warns against a “well organized interest group that wishes to use the mantra of ‘discrimination’ and Ku Klux Klan intimidation to force their wishes upon us all.”
Here’s a situation in which I can link you to old Portland Communique coverage in the process of passing along this news: “A federal judge in Portland declared a portion of the USA Patriot Act unconstitutional Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the Patriot Act violated the constitutional ban on unreasonable search and seizure.”
That’s the number of signatures the combined forces of Bigots, AGAIN! claim to have turned in, according to Blogtown. Presumably, you’ll be able to check Know Thy Neighbor Oregon at some point to see if you live near any of those 63,000 bigots.
For some reason, Theo thinks it is breaking news that the Virginia Cafe’s new location will be across the street from the library. Unfortunately for them (and for Metroblogging Portland), we’ve known this since the end of August. What’s more, not only is the Theo item late, but it’s written by an idiot. Despite opening with “fear not, lovers of dim, smoky bars, the Virginia Cafe will escape the wrecking ball” (emphasis added), it then states four paragraphs later that “there will be no smoking in the new bar” (emphasis added).
Sometimes I wish I had done a better (meaning more finely-grained) job at categorizing material on Portland Communique. For example, I would love to be able to easily link you to coverage of the City’s legally precarious and morally bankrupt exclusion zones in the process of linking to Blogtown, which reports that, at long last, they finally will suffer their own exclusion from municipal law.
According to today’s Murmurs, Willamette Week asked ‘Lie Boyles™ (nee Emilie Oy) about her mysterious resurfacing to seek a “campaign manager” for an unspecified candidate for an unspecified office. Her comment to the paper: “Why worry about it?”