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.
  

Hate-filled Homobigots, Greek Protesters, Sleazy Federal Judges, Racist Sheriffs, Queers of Color, Lucha Libre, and The Taliban American

• Obama selects hate-filled misogynist homobigot anti-choice preacher Rick Warren to deliver invocation at his inauguration. WTF?
  
• Gay rights groups, queer blogs, and progressives blast decision.
  
• NAM: Gay Marriage Ban Activates Young Queers of Color.
• Greek Protesters get creative - take over Acropolis [VIDEO].
  
• WaPo: Federal Judges Delay Swearing in New Citizens To Keep Millions in Naturalization Fees.
• CNN: "Taliban American" Asks Bush to Commute Sentence.
  
• Today in doublespeak: Rove advises Obama to encourage dissent.
• Times Online: Bollywood rushes to make Mumbai the Terror = the movie.
• The Guardian: James Frey decides to enrage a new set of people.
  
• Maricopa County grows weary of Sheriff Arpaio's xenophobic shenanigans.
• Womanist Musings: All Children Are Not the Same.
  
• 23/6 Presents the Obama Merch Guide. The Barry-Flavored Gaybait didn't make the cut.
• Why I Hate NPR: Reason # 1 - Maura Liasson.
  
• Border Patrol Lucha Libre wrestling - the ad.
• 23/6 dissects the madness of the Barney x-mas video.
  

Zapatazos, International Hate Crimes, Tweet News, Rotten Systems, Fallacious FAIR, Iraqi Ingrates, and Gay Penguins

• Watch Mentally Incarcerated: Understanding the School-to-Prison Pipeline.
• Watch Arab Reaction to the Shoe Attack on Bush.
• SPLC reports on the increase of white supremacists in the armed forces.
• America now exporting hate crimes.
  
• When it comes to the exploitation of immigrants, it's not just a few bad apples - it's a rotten system.
  
• Today in doublespeak: Perino says we are guests of Iraq and Bush explains that he "abandoned free market principles to save the free market system."
  
• Juan Williams thinks Iraqis are not sufficiently grateful for us invading, bombing, and destroying their country.
• Dick Cheney has no regrets; admits that he is a war criminal/torturer.
• Bush is just as unapologetic.
  
• Bush administration takes one last cheap shot at workers.
• Immigration Impact flays FAIR for its deceptive immigration stats.
• Another tale of a family torn apart by post-911 racial profiling.
• Fear of deportation keeps abuse victims from reporting crime.
• John Gibson returns. Damn it!
  
• Greek youths take over state TV center to broadcast protest message.
• NAM discusses News Media in the Age of Twitter.
• Shakesville asks: "How extraordinarily fucked up it is that, if you want to be a parent, you're better off being a gay male penguin in China than a gay male human?"
• Womanist Musings deconstructs the racist chestnut: What If You Said That About Blacks.
• Racialicious discusses the painful formation of POC consciousness.
• Tech pioneer Earl Pace discusses racism in IT.
• Obama channels every president EVER and thus has no time to tweet.
  
• Americablog: Some of Pat Boone's best friends are dead gays.
  
• Hyphen Magazine looks at the lack of Asian Americans in sports.
  
• Professor What If? continues her multi-part series on buying social justice with The Temple of Walmart.
• The Feminist Underground annihilates the website Hot Chicks with Douchebags.
• Naming your child Hitler = appalling. Not understanding why people might be offended = the height of stupidity.
  
• The Shoe Attack has been immortalized in many crappy games but none are as cool as the Wii Zapatilla. Let the zapatazos begin!
  

Bi-Racists, White Supremacists, Postcolonial Presidents, Post-Bullshit America, Refrigerated Beaches, Shoe Attacks, and Terrible Sci-Fi Remakes

• Obama's Election Sparks Racial Dialogue in Cuba
  
• Latest ridiculous Obama meme: Obama is post-colonial
• 23/6: Is Obama the first Other President?
  
• Racism Review breaks down what's behind this black, white, bi-racial debate.
  
• Shakesville's Shark Fu dreams of a post-bullshit America.
• Another shaker wants to know how the hell she missed the feminist era.
  
• Racial identity is about more than color.
• Black journalists hit hard by job cuts.
  
• Some Mexicans are leaving the US for good.
  
• White supremacists infiltrating army so that they can "kill a brown."
• Arundhati Roy: India needs to look in the mirror if it wants to understand the Mumbai Attacks.
• Iraqi sewed up mouth in effort to avoid deportation.
  
• Moroccan couple reunited with son after 2 year immigration nightmare.
• Are the Alien and Sedition Acts getting ready for a comeback?
  
• Americablog asks: Is your marriage worth more than a taco?
• You can buy "American" tech support - for a price.
  
• The massive data-mining, we all knew had happened, is happening, has been confirmed.
• NY Cop busted in body-check broadcast on youtube.
• Racist Moscow murder gang jailed.
  
• The Worst of the McCain Campaign [Daily Show Video]
• Dubai's latest grotesque display of excess: Refrigerated Beaches.
• John King: Wanker of the week.
  
• More Post-Secret secret racism.
• Orientalism - not just for Occidentals anymore!
  
• Alas! A Blog: Two Brothers Targeted by Homophobic violence; One dies.
  
• Alternet: Bondage, Cum Shots, Violence - Sexist Ad Trends That Refuse to Die.
• WIRED: Why We Need More Torture in Video Games.
• Center of Gravitas faces Facebook.
  
• Shoe Attack on Bush turned into crappy flash game.
• io9: 10 Worst Science Fiction Remakes.
  

Post-Racial Lit for a Post Racial Prez, Hair Politics, Tech-savvy Terrorists, Evil Santas, PostSecret Homophobia, and Crazy Holiday Commercials

• Obama is neither black nor white nor mixed. Confused? Welcome to The Post-Racial State.
• Of course, racism and racist stereotyping haven't gone away.
  
• Newsflash: Dave Gregory is a total dick.
• Womanist Musings on Michelle Obama's hair and the politics of submission.
• Professor What If takes on racism, sexism, and homophobia on PostSecret.
  
• Transgriot sounds off on why "Gay is the New Black" is a fucked-up slogan.
• Instaputz on the GOP's Latino strategy.
  
• Settlement opens up amnesty for tens of thousands of immigrants.
  
• Why discuss the root political causes of terror when you can profile the Taliban, talk about how tech-savvy terrorists are, or write a sexy story about deprogramming jihadists?
  
• Ever wanted to download a Youtube video? Here's how.
• Lists!!! Evil santas. 8 most ridiculous film plots. 10 best Onion headlines. 10 best quotations of the year. 5 terrifying lo-fi x-mas commercials.
  
• Does the banality of X-mas music make you want to scream?
• When did the US become a market?
  

Arundhati Roy, Glenn Beck, AWOL soldiers, Chicago workers, Zombie icons, Blackface browsers, deported hippies, Lucha Libre, Rahmbo and Rummy

• Glenn Beck, no longer on CNN, but still lying his ass off.
• Arundhati Roy: Mumbai was not our 9/11.
• Mumbai Terror coming soon to a theater near you.
  
• Racism Review remembers the genocide at Wounded Knee.
• The Most Outrageous Media Comments of 2008.
• NYT is now writing post-racial film reviews.
  
• Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about the evils of political pragmatism.
  
• Chicago workers: Don't let our struggle have been in vain.
• AWOL soldier seeks refuge from illegal Iraq War in Germany.
• Today in doublespeak: Ashcroft claims detention at GITMO is a "humanitarian act."
  
• The Corner thinks Blackbird is just "firefox in blackface."
• DNA can now be collected from anyone arrested.
  
• Poor white hippie gets deported from Mexico.
• IN CA wrestling, it's Mexicans versus the Border Patrol.
• Evangelical leader fired for not being homophobic enough.
  
• Asian American women tell it like it is.
• Good news: another city in the Bay Area has Asian majority populations.
  
• How to blag about Blago. Also - don't forget to learn the rap.
• Rahmbo is getting death threats isn't shocking but over Blago?
  
• Surprise, surprise. It *was* Rummy's fault.
• Lame duck unveils new guest worker policies.
• Chertoff, yet another GOP hypocrite when it comes to immigration.
• Conservatives: Environmental progress will destroy the nation!
  
• Why don't we put the jerk who said screw The Big 3 as the car czar?
• Powell slams Palin. Isn't this a few months late?
  
• Watch High Tech Soul, a doc on the creation of techno.
• MPAA asks Obama for more copyright surveillance of the web.
• Obama - now a tasteful souvenir for your home.
  
• Are gadgets and games the future of music?
• Smashing Pumpkins blames iTunes for the failure of their sucky album.
  
• Loser makes Orientalist female robot.
  
• The Worst Video Game Box Art of 2008.
• Cultural icons get zombified.
• Are you interested in being an uploaded mind in an immortal robot body?
• Would you rent a womb?
• Doesn't every little girl want to grow up to be a motor-cycle riding stripper?
• Hannity responds to Jon Stewart's Hall & Oates diss.
  
• Time to get creative.
• A victory for irony.
  
• B-More + Wham's Last Christmas = Cheesy Heaven. Download it.
  

Pocket Projectors, I-talian Money, Post-Racial Incidents, Hijabized Ads, Savage Porn, MSM in crisis, Whitewashed Asian Flicks, and Southern Strategies

• How uncool is it to want a pocket projector?
• Pierre Boulez will kick your sampling ass.
• I-talian Money?
• X-Box releases game about HBCUs called Black College Football Experience. That's not very post-racial, say white gamers.
  
• Obama's election = death blow to racism? Don't think so.
• On the post-racial racism at WaPo.
• Racism, sexism, and homophobia fuel hate crime in Brooklyn.
• Womanist Musings lays down the law.
• The Unapologetic Mexican talks about "Harvesting Hate in Hard Economic Times."
  
• Belgian cops arrest an "al-Qaeda living legend."
  
• 10,000 bone fragments found in former Argentine detention center.
• Pixies, Sheilas, Dirtbags, and Cougarbait - Fun with modern slang!
• Princess Hijab, 20 yr-old guerilla artist, has been hijabizing ads since 2006.
  
• Racialicious takes a look at the politics of wizards and vamps.
• On porn's love of saving the savage.
  
• Moral panic of the week: Teens and Bombs!!!
• Showtime developing coming-out series.
  
• Who will Blago take down? Is his hair to blame? Or is he just crazy? Monumentally stupid?
  
• Obama defends his home turf.
  
• The MSM plays a little game called Guilt by Imagination.
  
• Eco-criminals get their very own Most Wanted List.
• Is being in Bush's EPA really safer than being in witness protection?
• Is Bush the new MLK?
  
• Avatar the Airbender gets whitewashed.
  
• Comprehensive new report on Chinese Americans.
  
• El Paso sues to prevent border fence.
• The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) opposes DNA collection from detainees.
• ACLU lawyers gives an insider's view of GITMO.
  
• Police massacred Tijuana Prisoners.
• More Latinos join Border Patrol. Why?!
  
• Newspapers and magazines are firing staff, trimming pages, and filing for bankruptcy. Does old-school journalism have a future? What about the punditocracy?
  
• Is Anh "Joseph" Cao - the future of the GOP?
• GOP hopes no senators get caught in a gay sex scandal this week. That would be such a buzz-kill.
• The more America hates Palin, the more the GOP base loves her.
• GOP admits they want to bust UAW.
• GOP learn to love the filibuster.
  
• Everyone knows Glenn Reynolds is a bottom.
• The Obama Administration has its own southern strategy.
• DOJ stonewalls Obama's request for secret legal memos.
  
• Youtube vids pulling in the dough.
  
• When Adorable Animals Attack.
• Gonzo the gift that keep on giving.
  
• Lists! Top Ten Douchebags of 2008. Top 5 Most Corrupt Politicians.
  
• Eating disorders not just for white chicks anymore.
• Playboy "honors" the Virgin Mary with a hot centerfold.
  
• Bet you thought Dragonball Z couldn't get cheesier. You were wrong.
• Robocop Rap brings the digital beat back.
• How would a hot tub time machine even work?
• 20 Classic Hip Hop album covers get the LEGO treatment.
  

Neocon plots, ICE raids, brutal accidents, indigenous victories, human rights, justice derailed, Gossip Girl, Tony the Tiger, Blago, Bobby and Bill.

• Sorry, Mr. Iqbal, Mr. Ashcroft is too busy for justice.
• DoD plots to keep Gitmo open.
• US military "accidentally" kills 6 Afghan policemen.
• Bill Kristol tops the list of 10 Worst Policy predictions of 2008.
  
• Jindal is out.
• Brazilian Indians win important land case.
  
• Are Black folks this year's must-have accessory?
• ACLU documents prisoner abuse in Mass. Read the full report: Detention and Deportation in the Age of ICE.
• Meanwhile, in FLA, ICE uses brutal tactics during immigrant crack-downs.
• Immigrant Rights Groups to TX: New drivers license requirements are institutionally racist.
• Mexican immigrants today are learning English faster than Germans did.
  
• Economic disaster may derail immigration reform.
• Children's music now officially a form of torture.
• Should a man who wore diapers while getting spanked by a prostitute use the word "ass-backwards"?
• If Blago and his cronies, IM'd...
• LAT to Gays: Stop being so sensitive, jeez.
• Gossip Girl and POC do not mix.
• Why we worship Tony the Tiger.
  

Fitz, Blago, Human Rights, Hate Crimes, WOCs, War Criminals, and Sonic Torture

• Black RNC pol takes self-hatred to new levels.
• Another anti-immigrant hate crime in Brooklyn; family keeps vigil for victim.
• Racist car deal calls Japanese cars: "rice ready not road ready."
  
• In age of migration, human rights declaration falls short.
  
• Finally, someone has dared to plot the unplottable: The history of the Wu Tang Clan.
• Nothing says Christmas spirit quite like holiday blackface.
  
• Another Latino athlete flashes the "chink" eye.
  
• What it means to be a WOC.
  
• Was Dubya our first sociopathic president? Maybe, we should ask torture-defending Condi or war criminal Rummy.
  
• Joe the Traitor stabs Walnuts in the back.
• Palin's office sent suspicious powder. Anthrax, don't fail me now.
  
• Rove: the economic disaster is a liberal media plot!
  
• Is tagging a form of self-advertising or just teen narcissism?
• Make your own Muslim avatar.
• Detention state: The US has 25% of the world's prisoners.
• Metal is for slamming not torturing.
• Sarah Haskins: Vampire edition.
• Social justice is not a capitalist product.
• The UK is getting the hell out of dodge.
• Mexico, reeling from drug war violence, follows US lead and militarizes criminal justice system.
• Man beaten for wearing Obama shirt.
  
• Fitz! Fitz!
• Blago: totally gangster or totally an idiot?
  
• Yao Ming - the transformer!
• Jon Stewart takes down homophobic Huckabee.
  

Muslim Heroines, Ghetto Adjectives, Calling in Gay, Cash for Grades, Masculinity in Peril, Corrupt Guvs, and Holy SUVs

Bollywood’s Muslim Heroines: Of Love and Hate
http://muslimahmediawatch.org/2008/12/09/bollywoods-muslim-heroines-of-love-and-hate/

SWPD: use "ghetto" as an adjective
http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2008/12/use-ghetto-as-adjective.html

Calling in 'Gay' to Work Is Latest Form of Protest
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=6422390

Oklahoma Politicos: "Homos" Should be Ordered Into Treatment
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-derrick/oklahoma-politicos-homos_b_149502.html

Gates Foundation to study 'cash for grades'
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gates9-2008dec09,0,5609527.story?track=rss

Obama Birth Certificate Kooks In Court
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/09/obama-birth-certificate-k_n_149651.html

Murky records cloud crackdown on fake passports: U.S. will require documents at border next June
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6154442.html

U.S. resumes deportations to Haiti
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/805170.html

Hate Strikes Again in NY!
http://latinopoliticsblog.com/2008/12/09/hate-strikes-again-in-ny/

Blago had no love for Obama
http://www.americablog.com/2008/12/blago-had-no-love-for-obama.html

Keep Obama Alive: The Presidential Thong
http://www.womanist-musings.com/2008/12/keep-obama-alive-presidential-thong.html

Blacker Than Thou Or Internalized Racism
http://www.womanist-musings.com/2008/12/blacker-than-thou-or-internalized.html

Male gender in danger
http://appetiteforequalrights.blogspot.com/2008/12/male-gender-in-danger.html

Why we're mad at the Mormon church: A Times Op-Ed columnist defended a religious group that worked tirelessly to trample on the rights of same-sex couples.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-jacobs8-2008dec08,0,2630672.story

All I Want Is An Honest Press
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/all-i-want-honest-press

Burrowing Guantanamo?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/12/9/135334/885/110/671128

Did That B*tch Rahm Set Him Up?
http://wonkette.com/404840/did-that-btch-rahm-set-him-up

Obama Wouldn't Play
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/12/9/125617/069/115/671099

Blagojevich: Unprecedented Venality And Stupidity
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/12/9/112824/515/166/671056

Lutz Off Message: ‘The American Public Wants Sport Utilites And Large Pickup Trucks’
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/09/lutz-wants-suvs/

Fred Barnes Nominates Phil ‘Mental Recession’ Gramm To Be Car Czar
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/09/barnes-gramm-car-czar/

A Whitewash for Blackwater?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/08/AR2008120803297.html

Victory for Florida Farmworkers
http://www.wiretapmag.org/blogs/immigration/43918/

Blagojevich: Is This a Joke?
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/247431.php

O.J., Obama and race in America
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-goldberg9-2008dec09,0,3916250.column

Bank of America's Greed Sparked the Eye-Opening Worker's Strike in Chicago
http://www.alternet.org/story/111149/bank_of_america%27s_greed_sparked_the_eye-opening_worker%27s_strike_in_chicago/

We're Witnessing the Return of Religion as a Principle Cause of Warfare
http://www.alternet.org/story/111076/we%27re_witnessing_the_return_of_religion_as_a_principle_cause_of_warfare/

W's Massive Delusions
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8554

Why We Need Sleep Even More Than We Think
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/110997/why_we_need_sleep_even_more_than_we_think/

Obama Needs to Make a Clean Break on Latin America
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/109802/obama_needs_to_make_a_clean_break_on_latin_america/

Hajj Pilgrims Skeptical Obama Will Bring Serious Change
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/09/hajj-pilgrims-skeptical-o_n_149663.html

Pat Boone, No One Gives A Shit What You Think
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/12/pat-boone-no-one-gives-shit-what-you.html

On Being American and African Black
http://www.racialicious.com/2008/12/09/on-being-american-and-african-black/

Newt Gingrich: Still A Douche
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/12/newt-gingrich-still-douche.html

You Spin Me Right Round, Baby, Right Round, Like a Record, Baby, Right Round Round Round
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/12/you-spin-me-right-round-baby-right.html

The Things We Do to Each Other/The Things We Do to Ourselves
http://www.racialicious.com/2008/12/09/series-introduction-the-things-we-do-to-each-otherthe-things-we-do-to-ourselves/#more-2099

Changing the Dialogue: A few thoughts on Feminism and Intersectionality.
http://www.feministing.com/archives/012587.html

Viva La Vida Vs If I Could Fly MashUp V.II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3kytzHrKpo&feature=related