"On the face of it, the memes, the Auto-Tune remixes and the laughing seem purely celebratory. But what feels like celebration can also carry with it the undertone of condescension. Amid the hood backdrop — the gnarled teeth, the dirty white tee, the slang, the shout-out to McDonald’s — we miss the fact that Charles Ramsey is perfectly lucid and intelligent."
- Gene Demby, Are We Laughing with Charles Ramsey?

In Texas, a private intelligence company has apparently been hacked by the loosely organized activist group Anonymous. Some members claim they obtained personal information about Stratfor’s clients, as well as thousands of credit cards numbers which were then used to make donations to charities. But other members have disavowed the hacking job. Freelance journalist Quinn Norton, who has profiled Anonymous for Wired Magazine, talks to Linda Wertheimer about the breach.

This is my homepage, I have a general distaste for the media, but NPR is the one media outlet that I like, and they have terrific radio broadcasts.

what’s everybody else’s and why do you like it?

quote from an NPR review of Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks:  

“On one of her solitary ramblings, she encounters a wild young native son, a Wampanoag Indian with an intellect as great as hers, who becomes adopted by her preacher farmer father.”

wild? like he’s some animal in the woods? Underhanded racism all day erryday. Can’t ever escape this. Fuck this country.