Shahryar Rizvi

Category: Politics

  • Jon Stewart delivers a scathing smackdown upon Beck

    The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Conservative Libertarian www.thedailyshow.com http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:267816 Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform Yesterday’s Daily Show saw Jon Stewart giving Glenn Beck a taste of his own medicine. I wish Jon could have elaborated on the “Li” part of libertarian with examples like […]

  • links for 2010-03-06

    Housing discrimination near Dallas? – Sepia Mutiny (tags: desi texas dallas social politics via:racialicious)

  • The Problem With…”We Are The World 25″ And More

    My second “The Problem With…” piece is up. This week, I took on We Are The World 25 For Haiti. A great chunk of my political content for the post got cut. I understand why the editor chose to cut all that stuff –DC9 At Night is an entertainment blog, not a political soapbox– so I’m […]

  • Dubai trip report

    http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf I spent last week in Dubai. My first overseas trip since 2003. Dubai is essentially a tourist spot (Vegas much?). The buildings are like something out of cyberpunk media during its height in the late eighties and early nineties. Other people think the architecture is too contemporary and will date itself in time, but […]

  • RIP Howard Zinn

    http://www.youtube.com/p/C984687F7C7449A1&hl=en_US&fs=1 Howard Zinn passed away on Wednesday at age 87. Zinn was a popular activist and author of People’s History of the United States, a frequently updated review of  history from the perspective of groups traditionally unrepresented in popular national consciousness. People’s History of the United States sought to give an alternative view of American history against […]

  • MLK: Day: Peace is the presence of justice

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIFTNmOOLmk&w=425&h=344] On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor […]

  • The Haiti Earthquake: Chicken’s don’t laugh where turkeys get plucked.

    I can’t say much else about the Haiti earthquake, but I think Haiti deserves to be put into a context. Haiti is a nation that threw off it’s European dominator well before any other, by a slave rebellion no less. As a result, the “civilized” world has never forgiven Haiti. The new nation had to […]

  • January 2010 seems to love comics

    The first month of the year seems to be obsessed with comics and cartoons. In full disclosure, I enjoy short-form comics only occasionally. However, the short form seems to be getting all the attention right now. Earlier this month, an illustrator of one of the bigoted JP comics of the Prophet Muhammad was the target of […]

  • The decade was cyberpunk

    Rihanna — Her appearance resembles the razorgirls of cyberpunk novels. I overlooked her being the victim of domestic violence because I imagine that she is strong enough to overcome it.  Powers-that-be forbid that I am wrong, recovering psyches are what razorgirls are made of anyway. Lady GaGa: As much as I loath the contrived eccentricities […]

  • If I Can’t Game, It’s Not My Revolution: International Socialist Organization crashes Gamers meeting

    I wrote to the editor on North Texas Daily. On the night of Oct 21 at Pohl Recreation Center I witnessed an ugly scene between two campus organizations. Representatives and members of International Socialist Organization invited themselves into Room 207, reserved and occupied by UNT Gamer’s Club, to inform the attendees of the session that […]