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TSAstroturf: The Washington Lobbyists and Koch-Funded Libertarians Behind the TSA Scandal – By Mark Ames and Yasha Levine – The eXiled While this issue is certainly important—and offensive—to Americans, we are nonetheless skeptical about how and why this story turned into a national movement. In fact, this whole campaign feels a bit like déjà-vu: As […]

Shareable: Real Girl Talk: Is Remix Culture A White Spin on Mixtapes? Mash-up DJs tend to be whiter than mixtape rappers, and it could be that the poster boy for a para-academic intellectual property movement has to be, in the minds of those in charge, a certain color. Literally no one will accuse the white […]

The Pakistani Golden Girls In Pakistan, we have a long way to go when it comes to women’s rights, but the recent press coverage of the women’s cricket team is an opportunity to discuss the benefits of allowing young girls to play sports. From a development perspective, there are numerous reasons why supporting sports for […]

Unlogo (tags: culture politics movies) Hold Fast Hold Fast: Stories of maniac sailors, anarchist castaways, and the voyage of the S/V Pestilence… (tags: movies toread green politics sustainability)

Sarah Palin and Gawker to Debate Freedom and the Constitution Does Gawker have a First Amendment right to excerpt Sarah Palin’s book and make fun of it? Or can Sarah Palin use her powers under copyright law to stop them? The answer is, depends! The copyright clause of the Constitution does not always get along […]

Famous Sounds "Famous sounds" are sounds that have been created or used by somebody, liked and then copied by many others, and thus earned a "classic" status. (tags: history music)

Privilege Denying Dude Look, I wasn't around when all that bad stuff happened. All I know is I got to where I am solely by hard work. Discrimination? I'm not going to listen to this. You obviously can't hear me: my reality is the only reality. (tags: comedy race gender religion images internet) Budget Puzzle: […]

5 Internet Life Lessons Parents Need to Start Teaching Kids (tags: internet comedy culture education) Iain Boal: Crisis at Pacifica Capital’s most severe crisis in seventy years ought to be a moment of significant opportunity for the left. But as the right mobilizes disgruntled Americans via its vast radio, television, web, and print empires, the […]

Akira, American Style Somehow, director Albert Hughes and writer Albert Torres are reportedly going to attempt to turn the original manga – which spotlighted more characters beyond the Tetsuo/Kaneda love/hate relationship, but was by no means more kid-friendly – into two PG-13 movies, with the setting shifting from Neo-Tokyo to “Neo New-York.” That’s like turning […]

ThinkProgress » Iranian Nobel Prize-Winning Human Rights Activist: ‘You Should Not Think About’ Military Strikes On Iran In an interview with ThinkProgress, Ebadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 “for her efforts for democracy and human rights,” said an attack on Iran “would give the government an excuse to kill all of […]