Daily Archives: February 23, 2015

Non-White Cop Kills a Non-White

A Chinese-American police officer kills an unarmed black man and is indicted. Cue the NYT to go to the ‘Chinese-American community’, gauge the varying degrees of ethnocentric solidarity, then fumble around trying to insert larger identity-politics narratives into the story … Continue reading

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Stay Classy, Ms. Schultz

Who knew that The Organizer is (contigently) anti-woman and anti-Semitic? Won’t someone get to the bottom of this? From Mediate: Buried inside a Politico report about Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz‘s (D-FL) future aspirations was an interesting revelation: … Continue reading

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Tom Wilson

“The Black Man Behind Bob Dylan” is an interesting piece about Tom Wilson, a black Young Republican and cum laude Harvard graduate who became a music producer to the likes of Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkle, and VU. Wilson began … Continue reading

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On Twee

‘Twee’ is a purported youth-oriented, cultural niche, one that is arguably a subset of ‘hipsterdom’. Anna Schaffner reviews Marc Spitz’s book Twee: The Gentle Revolution in Music, Books, Television, Fashion, and Film: Since the Second World War, Spitz argues, there … Continue reading

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