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The French kiss ‘race’ goodbye

The “race-ban” in France may force immigrants to face increased marginalisation and societal exclusion.

Al Jazeera, By Khaled A Beydoun, June 2

On May 17, a proposal was passed in the National Assembly that effectively removes the words “race” and “racial” from the French Penal Code, nearly nine years after the same body passed the [...]

Today’s Right Wing Follies, brought to you by the makers of Thorazine

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

- Lord Byron

Sometimes, when it comes to Right-wing lunacy, I find it difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff and come up with the perfect, most ignorantly lunatic RWNJ out there. All too [...]

You’ve been warned: Fear the Black Guy in the White House

In a different time and place, I’d file this under “Too Stupid For Words”. Then I’d forgot about the drooling, knuckle-dragging numbskull behind this mind-numbingly ignorant screed, published as it was in World Nut Daily World Net Daily. WND is where the paranoid and heavily medicated get their conspiracy theories “news.”

Klayman, founder of Judicial [...]

Evidently jealous of Texas, Floriduh plans to install its own “express lane” for Death Row

In Floriduh, a state where fully one-quarter of death row inmates have been exonerated since the 1970s, you’d think lawmakers would want to exercise an abundance of caution. No sense in executing innocent people…RIGHT?? (Unless, of course, Republicans want to demonstrate their law and order bona fides.)

Au contraire, mon ami, for this is Floriduh, [...]

Pride

Early morning, April 4 A shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride It is fitting and appropriate that this week sees the re-inauguration of President Barack Obama and the celebration of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [...]

The exploding white guy syndrome

It goes like this:

A population of people, wanting more room after having overgrown and ravaged their own land, sets sail and, with their superior killing tools, successfully invades several other continents around the globe. Since the engine of their particular economy is one by which all entities – including humans, animals, and nature – [...]