Pocket Geishas, Colonial Logic, Gaza Under Attack, Family Rejection, Domestic Slaves, Espionage Fears, Magic Blacks, and Ye Olde Rappe Music

• Alternet: Israel's Onslaught: One of Its Bloodiest Attacks on Palestinians in 60 Years
• The Guardian: Gaza - The Logic of Colonial Power
• The Guardian: From the Ashes of Gaza - In the face of Israel's latest onslaught, the only option for Palestinian nationalism is to embrace a one-state solution
• NAM: Bombs Rain Death on Gaza
  
• NAM: Family Rejection a Health Risk for Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Youth
• Alas! A Blog: The Case For Being Emotional Over Honoring Rick Warren
  
• Dallas Morning News: Immigration officials curtail sedation of deportees after criticism, lawsuits
• Austin American Statesman: Foreign children exploited on U.S. soil - Egyptian girl was kept as a virtual slave for years in California
• Angry Asian Man: civil servant loses job amid espionage fears
  
• Angry Asian Man: A geisha for your pocket
  
• Womanist Musings: A Black Man or a White Woman
  
• Womanist Musings: If You Can Make a Black Woman Smile
• Shakesville: Obama Racism/Muslim/Unpatriotic/ Scary Black Dude Watch, #104 and #105
  
• Wonkette: Here’s That Hilarious Song Parody Sent Out By This Huckabee Douche Who Wants To Be Chairman of the RNC
• 23/6: Poll - How hilarious is that "Barack The Magic Negro" song parody?
  
• 23/6: Ye Olde Rappe Music
• Cracked.Com: The 8 Most Misguided Sci-Fi Versions Of 2008
• NYT: Songs From the Heart of a Marketing Plan
  

No Fly Lists, White House Girls, Drug Paperbacks, Evil Cell Phones, Sodomy Laws, So-Called Political Journalism, and Caruso One-Liners (YEAAAH!)

• Salon: Politico reviews the year in American "Political Journalism"
• Sociological Images: How and Why POC Are Included in Advertising - Part 8
• Alternet: Sodomy Laws Are Rooted in British Colonialism
• Alternet: The Sensational World of Drug Paperbacks
• Shakesville: White House Girls
  
• Womanist Musings: The Policing of WOC
• Womanist Musings: Time Begs for an Obama Boy
  
• Womanist Musings: If You Are A Black Transwoman Your Life Is In Danger
• Stuff White People Do: Use Drugs with Relative Impunity [Video]
  
• WireTap: Top Youth Activism Victories of 2008
• NAM: ICE Immigration Raids Waste Time and Money
• NYT: City of Immigrants Fills Jail Cells With Its Own
  
• WaPo: Why I Can't Get Off the No-Fly List?
• Carnegie Reporter: Arab Media - The Web 2.0 Revolution
  
• Des Moines Register: Immigration policies sow climate of fear
• The Consumerist: Sikh Signs For Package, UPS Driver Enters His Name As "TERRORIST"
• Jezebel: President-Elect Obama Is 2 Seconds Away From A Horatio Caine "Yeaaaaaah!" Moment
  
• io9: Why Do Aliens Among Us Always Go Native?
  
• io9: Evil Cell Phone Wants You Dead But Has Reasonable Rates
  
• Youtube: CSI Miami - Endless Caruso One-Liners [Video]
  

Gender-Queer Santa, Tito the Builder, Singing Ewoks, Cool Nerds, A-Gays, Racial Profiling, Watermelon Rolls, and The Imperial Presidency

• Alternet: Is Obama's Education Pick the Sarah Palin of the School System?
• Border Lines: Prisons are Safe Havens for Investors
• States Without Nations: An Interview with David, Wrongly Classified as an Illegal Alien Based On Racial Profiling
• Professor What If?: What If Santa is Gender-Queer?
  
• Womanist Musings: Michelle Obama is NOT a gal
• The Christian Science Monitor: India's media blasted for sensational Mumbai coverage
  
• The Nation: Dismantling the Imperial Presidency
• The Huffington Post: 'Watermelon Roll': More Racism from 'Team Sarah'
  
• The Atlantic: You wouldn't make it in Postracial America
• Daily Dispatch Online: Racism is still deep rooted in global economics and politics
  
• AP: Immigrants Reshape Post-Disaster New Orleans
• The Boston Phoenix: The Year of the Nerd
• Men.Style.Com: The Rise of the A-Gay (?)
  
• 23/6: Tito the Builder...We're gonna miss you, buddy
• E! Online: Cue the Ewoks: Star Wars Hits the Stage
  

Preposterous Rhymes, Illegal Hijabs, Nazi Hunters, Sex Slaves, Presidential Pin-ups, Harassed Detainees, Enemy Aliens, and the Racist Left

• NAM: Permanent Residents to be Fingerprinted When Entering US.
• NAM: US Airways Pilot Refuses To Fly Plane with Sikhs on Board.
• NAM: Immigration Activists Battle Harsh Laws Across the US.
  
• Racialicious: The Not Rape Epidemic.
• Racialicious: Assimilated Beauty.
  
• Racism Review: The Left's Blindness on Racism.
• Womanist Musings: Barack Obama The Sex Symbol.
  
• Womanist Musings: The Illegal Hijab.
• Angry Asian Man: John Cho as Mandarin in Next Iron Man?
  
• CSM: Greens Mixed on Obama's Agriculture and Interior Picks.
• HuffPo: We Owe Sarah Palin An Apology.
• HuffPo: Top 10 Obama Player Haters of 2008.
• HuffPo: Thundercats The Movie: A Satirical Trailer Mash-Up That's Truly Art
• SF Weekly: Busted Rhymes - The Top 10 Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008.
  
• NYT: Disciples of Hatred; Nazi Hunters in Their Own Words and Images.
• NYT: Conservative Radio See an Opportunity and His Name is Barack Obama.
• NYT: Buzzwords of 2008.
  
• WaPo: Emails Reveal Seung Hui Cho's Troubles at VA. Tech.
• Houston Chronicle: S. Texas Officials Accused of Harassing Detained Somalis
  
• The Brownsville Herald: Disabled Immigration Detainees Face Obstacles.
• MSNBC: Sex Slavery - Living the American Nightmare

Arab Surf Music, Whopper Imperialists, Post-Racial HBCUs, Certificates of Whiteness, Immigration Settlements, and Presidential Coinage

• Did you know Dick Dale, the Doors, and Dylan Swayed to Arab Music? No, then check this out.
  
• Indian Country Today deconstructs the imperialist idiocy of the Whopper Virgin ads.
• Salman Rushdie blasts Arundhati Roy over Mumbai Attack comments.
  
• io9 asks: Will it soon be acceptable to select the sex of your baby?
• Meanwhile, Digital Journal, ponders the fate of HBCUs in the post-racial era of Obama.
• PZN looks at structural racism and the Obama presidency.
• Professor Zero discusses certificates of whiteness.
• Racism Review presents Black & Blue: Black Cops Face White Racism.
• Tampa Bay Online asks: Is the Recession causing a migrant exodus or influx?
• WSJ answers: US Workers Crowding Out Immigrant Laborers.
• CBS: New Focus on Anti-Migrant Hate Crimes after Murders in NY.
• Houston Chronicle: Houston firm to pay $21 million in Immigration case.
• NAM: AZ Border Patrol Agent sued for millions, Government implicated in wrongful death suit.
• The American Prospect: Unions come to Smithfields.
  
• Lists! Metromix counts down 8 things we won't miss about '08.
• Obama now a special limited edition coin [video].
  

High Court Challenges, Hateful Bigots, Evil Flags, Lethal Theme Parks, Deadly Otherness, Jailed Immigrants, and the Banality of Torture

• Jerry Brown asks State High Court in CA to Overturn Prop. H8. It's about frickin' time.
• Rick Warren is an ignorant homophobic hateful bigot and having him do the invocation is a MASSIVE mistake.
  
• American flag inspires white supremacist sentiments.
• Alternet: Kids Learn That Killing Is Fun at the Army's Lethal New Theme Park. Yeah?
  
• New America Media considers the deadly price of being the Other.
• Muslimah Media Watch has an amazing round-up of links.
  
• Repeat of Milgram experiment finds that people are still willing to torture.
  
• The line between the police and the military continues to blur in the US.
  
• Sean (The Manatee) Hannity is Media Matters Misinformer of the Year.
• Bush is glad the youtube wasn't around to document the idiocy of his presidential campaign. It's best not to think about all the Macaca moments missed.
  
• In Idaho, racist wing-nuts proudly and loudly proclaim their bigotry.
• Newsflash: This is not a color-blind world.
  
• Gitmo should be shut down immediately NOT in 2 years.
• Rep. Keith Ellison shows support for jailed Indian workers.
• Task force urges US to "Americanize" immigrants.
• MPR offers up a Horatio Alger immigrant storyline called "He's Successful but Undocumented."
  
• Immigration Impact: 2,000 Approved Naturalization Applicants Blocked from Voting.
  
• FOX gives racist xenophobic power-mad cop a TV show.
  
• NYT: Right groups accuses US of failing to protect Latinos.
• WaPo: Secret Service Sanctioned in Race Bias Suit.
• Boston Review: How Post-Racial was Obama's Victory?
  
• LAT: LAPD and ACLU reach settlement on Skid Row searches.
• WIRED: Student Sentenced to 15 Years for YouTube Terror Video.
• EFF: RIAA v The People turns from lawsuits to three strikes.
  
• Womanist Musings looks at how black girls are devalued and sexualized.
• Racialicious looks at the internalized self-hatred of Mexicans.
  
• Now your iPod can be your personal breathalyzer.
  
• WIRED: Attack of the Shoe Toss Games Continues.
• io9: Long-suppressed gay Star Trek episode released.
  
• Target introduces Asian Yellow Dinnerware. Seriously?!
• You know what's better than reasoned thoughtful pieces? Crappy instant op-eds.
• A very naive university offers a course on "ethical hacking." This will not end well.
• Why I love Instaputz: An Ongoing Series.
  

Katrina's Hidden Race War, Online Jihadists, Public School Betrayal, The Spirit of Fuck You, and Super-Offensive Video Game Moments

• The Nation examines Katrina's Hidden Race War.
• Is Obama's racial identity really his call?
• Henry Giroux looks at Obama's betrayal of public education.
  
• Are "Online Jihadists" planning to invade Facebook?
• BBC: GITMO closure plan drafted.
  
• Shakesville discusses The Spirit of Fuck You.
• The Unapologetic Mexican discusses growing immigration tensions.
  
• Why I Hate NPR: Reason # 345,654
• Students occupy New School in NYC.
• Cracked counts down the 6 most offensive video game moments.