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Been busy doing background reading – Johnson-Reagon, Foucault, Hardt & Negri; looking towards next week for blogging on all that. In the meantime, here’s a somewhat sniffly wrap-up:

20 year anniversary of Do the Right Thing. I’d say read the Newsweek article on it, but it’s full of feigned praise, if not backhanded compliments. Who shows up at someone’s birthday and says, “That outfit makes you look great…for your size”? Much better fare is the New York interview with Spike Lee.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright has a hymietown moment. If you mean AIPAC, say AIPAC, alright? Can’t even claim privacy of conversation, he said it to a reporter. I think he got dogged during the elections, but “those Jews”? Come on.

Obama administration may be strong-arming potential swing votes on the war spending bill, which includes $100 million for the IMF.

A fabulous write-up from SexGenderBody on Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse as Gothic literature.

A very interesting lecture on “Evolution, religion, schizophrenia and the schizotypal personality”.

That’s it! Off to rest, relax and make sure this cold doesn’t get the better of me. Much love, see you on the downbeat…

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There’s so much this week, it’s been a challenge to break it down to a manageable pile. If this keeps up, expect this at least twice a week, most likely on Wednesday as well as Friday. Here we go:

Obama’s speech in Egypt. Yes, it’s just a speech. Yes, it’s important. What, you haven’t read or viewed it yet? Text | Video | Analysis from Colorlines.

Obama on gay marriage – hmmmmn. Just a bit uptight, and uncharacteristically so. Regardless, as pointed out on Towleroad, all the more reason to repeal DOMA, and Pam’s House Blend makes it plain: “blind as a bat.“

Crooklyn cops brutally beat lesbians of color.

Oscar Grant’s killer to stand trial for murder.

RIP George Tiller. Thanks for nothing to the far right for cheering Tiller’s murderer on, while feigning horror because he acted on said cheering.

Military schools on the rise in the US. Why the hell are they in schools anyway?

Your fave social media site’s ever-shifting terms of service up on your nerves a bit? Thanks to EFF, you can now track TOS changes on a variety of social media sites.

That’s it, lovely peeps! Until next week…

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KKK gets pwnd by…clowns. Twitter props to @FeminaPotens and numerous others in the blogtwitterosphere.

Havana times: Homophobia is the problem, not gays.

Wired gets it more or less right this time: The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online. They even break down Clay Shirky’s steps for online collaboration and action! Yay. Serious props to “Anarch” in the article’s comments for pointing out that this isn’t the New Socialism, but is the New Anarchism. You said it compañera/o. Boo to the idiot who said that libertarian socialism contains “a high degree of coercion” because every system that has used the term socialist is coercive, and therefore, he can’t be bothered to look up its history, even when numerous examples of said history were contained within the thread. Kronstadt, hello? /ostrich, FAIL Also, see: http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/82/tactical_briefing.html

Joss Whedon on Humanism. A lovely meditation on the need for compassion and intellect over ideology.

Really great guest blog by @Jesimone on walking as healing and the complexities of race.

#win of the week: Sotomayor. Stay strong, Boriqua, we’re counting on you.

#fail of the week: CA supreme court prop8 decision. While I’m glad that they respect the rights of CA residents to make their own decisions (no matter how backward), the whole thing smacks of compromise and politicization. Can’t wait for this shit to get overturned at the ballot box; yet another example of how California is nowhere near as liberal as its reputation suggests.

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Courtesy of Rebecca Walker, The Great Illmatic‘s amazing YouTube blog on post-racism, Asher Roth and the racial crossroads.

The funny as hell Stimulator is on a west coast tour – the show is called “Hopium: Confronting Fascism in the Obama era”, and promises to be both lively and informative.

Happy birthday to Malcolm X and Harvey Milk! You both are missed, and frequently in my thoughts. <3

Gaurav Mishra on why he writes about social media.

Noam Chomsky on torture memos and Obama.

Lastly, a wink and a nod to @mmrohrer over on Twitter for noting that yes indeed Virginia, there are sex toys in the bible.

That’s about it! Until next week, be well, stay safe and as always, stay in trouble. ^_^