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Posted on September 20 at 9:01 a.m.
Art is art is art.
Who are you to define it?
The gray-wash paint is far worse, in my opinion.
Blank walls=blank minds.
Posted on August 7 at 3:50 p.m.
Penny, thank you thank you thank you! It means a lot to me that somebody else took offense with this girls idiotic lyrics. It's disappointing to me that someone like Perry can use the word 'gay' as an insult and everybody just lets it slip.
To all the 'I don't care' comment makers: Maybe you should. You'd care if the girl was using racial terms in a derogatory, demeaning way, playing off stereotypes and generally being a bigot in that sense. But when she plays to sexism or homophobia, apparently it's still alright with you. Well, that's gotta change. And it will change.
By the way, just because a girl's queer doesn't mean she by necessity views women as sex objects. I'm a straight guy, and I don't view women as sex objects.
And I thought this was a progressive town...
Posted on July 1 at 5:41 p.m.
It's only recently started, but if you'd like to participate in a project where you yourself can research, report, and publish online stories of concern to our community, check out sbindymedia.org.
It's small now but if more folks start using it it has potential. Anybody can be part of the editing team, by the way. You just have to show up to the meetings. Read about it on the about page.
Posted on July 1 at 5:34 p.m.
Well, as much as I agree that the man in question is certainly another imbecile, I have to disagree that threatening the chief of police should be any more ridiculous than threatening anyone else. If anything, by taking a position such as that of a politician or a police officer (in this case both), you should accept the fact that you're much more likely to be on the receiving end of verbal harassment.
I mean, I'm not against speaking your mind to the chief of police. I think it's pretty ballsy, and something I wish more of us were capable of. I just think it's pretty stupid to be pissed off that the cops don't harass homeless people enough. And then to expose yourself as a racist too... wow. Idiot.
Posted on July 1 at 5:26 p.m.
This is insane. People have been camping by the tracks since there have been tracks to camp by.
There's something wrong with mobs of armed cops trying to shut down homeless person's camps 'for their own safety'... if they were endangering somebody else, you'd have an argument... the state needs to stop concerning itself with non-crimes like this. Start applying the laws to people in Washington.
Posted on May 5 at 3:21 p.m.
Woohoo, just in time for economic crisis, we have: Dogmatic nationalism! Now we just need some tough-talking, charismatic anti-semite to recreate the ol' German show of yesteryear, right here in the US of A. Fascism is easy, kids!
Posted on February 29 at 2:37 a.m.
Your strawman is poorly thought out at best, but probably an absolute lie. Those against this war simply extend their criticism of the murder of innocents to 'our' side as well.
Posted on February 29 at 2:29 a.m.
I'm disturbed to hear that you find just-released pictures of human beings at their most vile and murderous 'cliche'.
I am not downplaying the horror of taking innocent life, as many religious fundamentalists seem to do (what you call terrorism... but terrorism creates an arbitrary distinction between the taking of innocent life in small numbers, as through the suicide bombings of religious fundamentalists, and the mass killing that occurs whenever the United States military drops bombs in cities full of people.)
I do believe that the United States is doing exactly what is necessary to create the intense, widespread hatred and desperation that religious fundamentalists require to recruit and carry out their own atrocities.
If we did not starve hundreds of thousands with sanctions, and drop bombs into crowded cities, and abduct and torture and occupy foreign lands, how would hateful religious fundamentalists convince others to join them?
The United States is making the world safe for terrorism. In the meantime, our corporate masters are making fortunes off of the growing insecurity (ours especially). Every bomb breeds a thousand more hearts full of hate.
Iraq was not a hotbed for religious terrorism before this war began. The religious fundamentalists opposed Hussein's dictatorship, and he imprisoned or killed them. Now, the United States has deposed a dictator that it supported (and supplied with weaponry even as he killed thousands) for decades, and created the perfect recruiting and training ground for the religious hate groups that could not previously gain a footing in the country.
The war was not intended to end 'terrorism', something that can not end through war, something that is very much a part of the United States military effort. Most of us have realized this. This is a war for profit and control, the two major goals of governments past and present.
The researchers collaborating with the military are aiding the U.S. military in it's attempts to use widespread violence to gain power and control, whether they're trying to improve the killing power of that violence, or make it more sustainable defensively.
The whining of these military collaborators is nothing to the pain and wholesale destruction and exploitation of the Iraqi people.
Posted on February 28 at 4:43 p.m.
DonJose,
So this is your war in Iraq you want to defend?
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries...
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Posted on September 20 at 9:03 a.m.
Also, much of the art present was in the form of sculpture, music and painted canvas.
Although I don't see why that should be given any more respect.
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