“In Nicaragua it’s…well, it’s the sexiest revolution I ever saw. Women in khaki uniforms standing on corners and… well, I don’t like anyone with an Armalite rifle, but they were standing there smoking cigarettes and looking like Miss World.” - Bono
I have a thing for war photography, especially when it’s the women from my country. (Photo by: Marcelo Montecino)
God, shut the fuck up Bono. Fuck this quote.
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My favorite panaderia en La Mission #pandulce #lamission #flordejalisco #aztec (Taken with instagram)
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Organic Bounty
Fueling up for another week of juice cleansing!
Why do people do this? Your body does not need this. Your body can cleanse itself normally just fine. It’s been doing it for thousands of years. You only need to drink water regularly to flush out excess sodium maybe but that’s really it.
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But while the timing of his film is questionable, it’s even more difficult to accept his ugly caricature of Arab politics when Cohen’s shtick seems to hinge on little more than offensive, bigoted stereotypes of Arab men. Despite the very thin veneer of political satire, Cohen’s performance is a collection of generic, ill-conceived stereotypes borne of post-9/11 fear-mongering that ventures only to say, “Arab men are hairy and violent and they hate women and Jews.” His depiction is couched in nothing more than a dubiously funny accent and eccentric costume. Ultimately, it’s a White Israeli guy putting on brownface to make fun of Arabs. And if you don’t see something instinctively discomforting in that reality, I’m not sure anything I say will change your mind.
In the context of contemporary politics, it’s easy to see why such a bigoted portrayal of a racialized group of people has become so commonplace and normalized in our entertainment and media industries. After all, Arabs — and brown people around the world — are being murdered every day, often by American drones, American policemen, and Israeli gunfire sponsored by American taxes. This reality would be a lot more difficult to contend with had we — Western media and its consumers — not constructed Arabs and people of color as inherently violent, one-dimensional barbarians already killing themselves. Americans sleep better at night thinking their tanks and missiles and soldiers only kill people like “The Dictator” and not like the children they send safely off to school every day. They feel better about themselves thinking “black-on-black” crime is a fundamental inevitability, a social fact, and not a symptom of structural racism.
Hollywood’s Race Problem: On Ashton Kutcher and “The Dictator”
This is the piece I was working on this morning.
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Johannes Mehserle, Ex-BART Cop Convicted of Killing Oscar Grant, Wants His Job Back | SF Weekly
Johannes Mehserle, the former BART cop who spent nearly a year [only 11 months of his two-year sentence, after he was released last year on good behavior] in prison for shooting dead Oscar Grant at a BART station in 2009, asked an appeals court today to overturn his conviction so that he can get a job in law enforcement again.
Mehserle was convicted in 2010 for the shooting death of Oscar Grant on New Year’s Day in 2009. Mehserle says he didn’t mean to shoot Grant, who was unarmed and lying face down on the Fruitvale BART platform when he was killed. Mehserle argued in court that he meant to grab for his Taser, but accidentally pulled out his gun and fired one shot in Grant’s back, killing him instantly. The shooting was recorded by other BART passengers, which was used as evidence in his trial.
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Johannes Mehserle, Ex-BART Cop Convicted of Killing Oscar Grant, Wants His Job Back | SF Weekly
Johannes Mehserle, the former BART cop who spent nearly a year [only 11 months of his two-year sentence, after he was released last year on good behavior] in prison for shooting dead Oscar Grant at a BART station in 2009, asked an appeals court today to overturn his conviction so that he can get a job in law enforcement again.
Mehserle was convicted in 2010 for the shooting death of Oscar Grant on New Year’s Day in 2009. Mehserle says he didn’t mean to shoot Grant, who was unarmed and lying face down on the Fruitvale BART platform when he was killed. Mehserle argued in court that he meant to grab for his Taser, but accidentally pulled out his gun and fired one shot in Grant’s back, killing him instantly. The shooting was recorded by other BART passengers, which was used as evidence in his trial.
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I think one of the new movie-watching past times I like to enjoy now, alongside You’ve Got Mail, The Fifth Element, and other cheesy cinema selections, is to watch “Senna” for no particular raisin.
I always sound really angry on this thing.
I’m cool with that.
