Barack Obama, Racism and The Internet: An Annotated Gallery @4:30 PM
Racism is hot. The media smells the blood in the water and is (finally) making some good cases about how anti-Obama sentiment is tied to racism. Some, not so good. Maureen Dowd pretty much called everyone opposed to Obama a racist. But race is a very small factor in what's going on.
Let's imagine that Hillary Clinton's tactics (some of which were racist) had worked better and she was today President. Would the climate be different? Not much. Spend enough time on right-wing websites and living in a right wing population and it soon becomes clear that hate for Obama is directly tied to hate for Pelosi and hate for Reid and is all part of a larger game. And while there are elements of racism, sexism and homophobia that currently drive the right, they are just the tools currently available with which to "win." Yes, it is all now a game, not so different from the NFL. And in this game the left faces an impossible task because the field (i.e., media landscape) favors the three-word, low-syllable-count language of reactionaries. READ MORE 73
Contextual Ads Sometimes Go Awry! @2:45 PM
Given the apparently endless fascination so many of you have with the contextual ads that appear on the inside pages of this website, I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy this gallery of Google's Worst Ads Ever. And if not, well, you can always hope there's some bizarre juxtaposition on the inside of this post. 6
Plant Sex: 9 Pictures from Summer at Wave Hill @3:07 PM
Plants: our friends? Our enemies? Uncaring monsters who are only interested in screwing everything in sight? Oh wow definitely the latter. Wave Hill (a "public" garden, which means "only eight bucks!") is the pervertedest, sexiest, pollen-iest place in New York City (249th St., hello!). Up there, overlooking the Hudson, you can watch the foreign flora, from near and from really far, basically get on top of the other flora and hump it until it bleeds sap. All over. Actually very sexy and fun to be around! READ MORE 4
Sophie Calle At Paula Cooper @9:45 AM
Don't miss Sophie Calle's show at Paula Cooper gallery. Oddly this has not much been written about here, even though this is the first time her enormous sweeping tribute to getting dumped has been shown in the U.S. Prepare to spend about an hour there, because the video interpretations of her breakup are particularly magical. (Yes, magical!) 8
