Jim Hines Summarizes “Wicked Pretty Things” Controversy and Offers Alternative Venue For Stories: If you’re not familiar with the controversy surrounding the (now canceled) Wicked Pretty Things anthology, check out Jim’s post linked above, as well …
Israeli officer: I was right to shoot 13-year-old child: zesticola:
mehreenkasana:
Record of a shooting
Watchtower‘It’s a little girl. She’s running defensively eastward’
Operations room‘Are we talking about a girl under the age of 10?’…
AP/ABC: Skin bleaching a growing problem in Jamaica:
Mikeisha Simpson covers her body in greasy white cream and bundles up in a track suit to avoid the fierce sun of her native Jamaica, but she’s not worried about skin cancer.
The 23-year-old reside…
“The veil in front of your eyes is much more dangerous than the veil on my hair.”
Via: jhameia:
garconniere:
onetraveller:
desertxxrose:
The sign of protester in France in reference to the law which places a ban on face veils.
Flawless people….
Sydney Morning Herald: Racist? Angry? The answer may be in a pill:
A pill to enhance moral behaviour; a treatment for racist thoughts; a therapy to increase your empathy for people in other countries – these may sound like the stuff of science fiction…
From Colorlines: Second Anti-Immigrant Vigilante Gets Death Sentence in Arizona:
An Arizona jury has sentenced another member of the anti-immigration splinter group the Minuteman American Defense to the death penalty for the murders of Raul Flores and…
The Root: Profiling? Cincinnati Police Target Big Rims:
…police in Cincinnati have taken to impounding cars with rims 20 inches or larger, citing a vague public-safety code that they say gives them the authority to do so.After being impounded, the v…
io9: Urban decay causes ethnic prejudice:
Urban decay causes ethnic prejudice In a study that screams to be wildly misinterpreted, people subjected to chaotic and disordered environments were shown to be more likely to discriminate against and stereot…
The Agitator: Sen. Hatch Wants More Porn Prosecutions:
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding more federal obscenity prosecutions. The letter was co-signed by more than 100 other senators and congressmen:…
This place must be destroyed:
Former detainees and their families said any outward appearance of Islamic devotion — a long beard, for example, or too much time in the mosque — was enough to land people on State Security’s radar.“My brother was…