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Friday, June 05, 2009 by Nanette  This is the National Review’s (conservative magazine) Judge Sotomayor cover… and it’s says, right there on the cover! “The Wise Latina” Judge Sotomayor is, of course, of Puerto Rican descent. So why, you may ask, does the National Review have her depicted as a South Asian or Asian uh.. Buddha type figure? Who the heck knows. The completely wackity and self destructive behavior of the right wing regarding Sotomayor’s appointment has been a source of amazement to me from the beginning. That one of their major magazines would come up with a “they all look alike” cover (and have it actually pass muster with their editors!) is just par for their very mysterious course. (via TPM) ETA: Jeebus, look at the eyes. What is wrong with these people?
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Monday, March 09, 2009 It Really IS All About “Teh Sex” With These People by Nanette This is almost beyond belief, and certainly has to be beyond parody. Rod Dreher, in an article titled “Cool to be bisexual”, uses an incidental occurrence - “an East Texas man who survived the home invasion and slaughter of his wife and children, carried out by his and his wife’s teenage daughter, Erin, and three of her friends” to comment on what is really disturbing to him about the story:
He tries to walk that back later, in updates, but there really is no way to make this seem less crazy than it is. (via Andrew Sullivan)
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Well, Best Laid Plans And All That by Nanette I think I am fighting off the flu or something. Anyway, didn’t get to my series and since it’s already Wednesday, think I’ll put that one off til next week ;)
Here’s a few links to interesting (or hopeful or dreadful) things I’ve come across. If you have any (or have anything else to say) make sure to leave them in comments. First, a dreadful: It’s possible that NYPost cartoonist Sean Delonas has a good explanation for this... but I doubt it. Even if the intention wasn’t to be racist - it’s astonishing this made it past the editors, even if it IS the NYPost - there is the matter of appearing to threaten either Obama or other public officials with harm. It has generated controversy and probably brought lots of traffic, and maybe that was the point anyway, but still… A hopeful: Invisible People TV via a Pitch Engine release, which says:
Sounds like an interesting and worthwhile project - not only do the stories need to be told but it’s helpful when one can see others as individuals instead of one big mass of “homeless people”. Interesting: BBC production, The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu. You can only see the video if you live in the UK (nationists!) but anyone can listen to the audio of the radio shows. Good site to just putter through daily, and learn all sorts of helpful stuff about - what else? - changing the world: WorldChanging - worldchanging was founded on the idea that real solutions already exist for building the future we want. it’s just a matter of grabbing hold and getting moving. Also, right here on our HB community blog, Varela Gaby, a volunteer teacher, has a post on simple ways to end poverty. Welcome, Varela! Y’all have a good day.
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Friday, January 30, 2009 by Nanette I’m such a slow writer that it might be all over by the time I’m done with this post, but the race for RNC chairmanship is turning out to be very interesting.. and sort of a referendum on which direction at least the perception of the Republican Party is going to go. UPDATE: Steele won, going on to become the first Black chairman of the RNC. Too late, though. If not for Obama, it’s *possible* that something like this would have caused some of the more conservative Black or other people of color to give the Republicans a second look, but as it is… nah. I doubt it.
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Saturday, January 03, 2009 by Nanette I remember somewhere around this time last year that I declared 2008 the Year of the Manatee! I never did get around to explaining what that was all about but it turns out that is a good thing because I was wrong, wrong, wrong! Not about it being the Year of the Manatee, but about what that meant. See, while I remembered and loved the secret Manatee Lisa smiles some of them wear - their gentleness and lumbering grace…
 I didn’t want to focus, as I was inclined to, on the scars that so many wear across their backs as a testament of not only an uncaring and, sometimes, unaware adversary but also of a resilience and a capacity to survive, secret smiles intact.
 That is usually the more interesting story, though, no? Anyway, 2008 is finally over - and not a moment too soon - and while I still love manatees I do hope this new year will be free of them. I have a lot planned, including a re-focusing of the site (of course!) and other stuff, which I will be writing about as I can. My life is still not quite my own, but now that things have calmed down at least a bit it’s obvious that I’m not likely to get the life I want, at this moment, so will just have to make do with the one I have, and work through whatever obstacles as well as I can. This means that my grammar and punctuation will be even worse that usual as I will have to take the time to write when I can, and will worry about it being proper some other day, when I have more time. I have so much I really should be writing about - I still have to write a letter to PE Obama - who actually won the election, amazing as that is - , as I sit writing the heartbreaking news comes in that Israel has invaded Gaza with ground troops, so there is that, and also lots of navel gazing to come, as I try and make sense, or at least lemonade, of the past year. And continue moving and looking forward into this next one. What’s everyone else up to?
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Monday, December 15, 2008 Random “Don’t Let The Door Hit You… ” Thought by Nanette On January 20th at 12:01pm, we should all toss shoes in the general direction of Washington, DC. (Random worry - where was the Secret Service?)
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 FINALLY Someone Explains What Is Going On In Canada by Nanette And in a way that we non-parliamentary government folks can easily grasp. And she (Stephanie Pearl-McPhee of Yarn Harlot) does it on a knitting blog (which is also pretty cool, if you are into knitting).
 Go figure (And go read!). via Booman Tribune Edited to add : How cool is this? Knitters Without Borders (or Tricoteuses Sans Frontières)!From the faq:
Also, she writes books. They look like fun for knitters (and non-knitters, too).
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Saturday, July 05, 2008 “Both left and right pile on Obama” by Nanette That’s the title of this AP article: .... which I am not quoting any of and probably shouldn’t put a link to, cuz I’ve just remembered catching a glimpse of something about a lawsuit and a boycott? Anyway, I’ve seen a lot of the howling over the past week on the lefyish sites… I don’t read the rightwing ones, usually, so I’ll take the AP’s word for it that conservatives are howling too. Me, I’ve said often that I am not so much an Obama supporter (too far to the right for me even when people thought he was a liberal) so much as a supporter of his infrastructure and ground game (something I still need to write about), which I’m sure is very busy in the background while he’s giving speeches and causing heads to asplode. I’m also really curious to see what a "community organizer in chief" presidency would be like.
Still, the events of this past week or so made me think of that old public relations adage… when you have bad news or bad exposure - "Get it out. Get it all out. Get it ALL out RIGHT NOW!" By the time August rolls around (and beyond) people will either have come to terms with his views (or have changed them through activism) and will have decided that any Democrat is better than the Republican or will have peeled off completely and gone on to become Republicans or Greens or something. As some always do, each election. Fun stuff.
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What Century Are We In Again? Open Thread by Nanette Although, technically, all threads are pretty much open. Anyway, I agree with P6... this really is pathetic: Burial Exposes Racial Rift in Texas
Sigh.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 Weird Spam Files - I Think They Want Me To Buy Dead People? by Nanette I don’t normally even bother reading spam but I clicked on this one because it seemed like something else. And it is, indeed… something else, that is. It has the seemingly requisite misspellings and bad grammar, but as a topper I’m pretty sure it’s asking me to send money to get people from “my” country out of a mortuary? Too good not to share:
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Monday, March 10, 2008 What’s With SNL’s Obama Blackface Minstrel Routine? by Nanette "[T]he simple fact is that blackface and minstrels and house Negroes are dangerously wild and crafty memes that have been laughing at intent and virtue for over 140 years. Anyone who has been paying the slightest attention to race in America knows that these are the sort of images that tend to slip out of a user's grasp almost immediately, so deliberately handling them constitutes a form of willful recklessness." Ebogjonson, a year or so ago, after the spate of White liberal bloggers thinking it was oh, so cool and clever to dress up politicians and pundits in blackface, to make who knows what points. With predictable results. I literally paused with my cup of coffee halfway to my mouth Sunday morning when they played the clip of the previous night's Saturday Night Live skit. All it was lacking was the rolling eyeballs, showing the whites of the eyes and a couple of "Oh Lawsy, wut we'z gon' do, Miz Hillary? Save us poor dumb black folks!" to make it complete. Well wait... they had that, just in updated language. Maybe ebog should do another spreadsheet, this time for the media and (apparently melanin challenged) comedy shows.
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 Can This Woman Get Any More Stupid? by Nanette Don’t answer that. I’m sure they put her on this show on purpose…but for what purpose, I don’t know. Once again, I am so glad that Whoopi, even with all her own weirdness, is on this show and that Ms. Sheppard is not the only black woman on there. Jesus. (No pun intended)
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