Mississippi school district ordered to comply with desegregation order. And another article on it.

What. Not only were tons of white kids being allowed to transfer to a whiter school, but they were grouping classrooms by race. What. The. Fuck ( Read more... )

School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and homeI find this disturbing for several reasons ( Read more... )

Army seargant waterboards 4 year old daughter. Because she couldn't do her ABCs.

What the hell is wrong with people. I just.

Sometimes I really appreciate growing up with the parents I did.

My country's politicians are better than yours. Have any of yours rescued the national animal? I didn't think so.

Yay Iowa! I hope this doesn't get challenged. (Or if it does, not successfully challenged.)

Jamie Campbell Bower might be playing Grindeldore. I liked him in Sweeney Todd and he is SO PRETTY. There's pictures further down the ( Read more... )

So I was watching CNN's coverage of Senator Clinton supporting Senator Obama's presidential nomination in Unity today. I'm not sure why so many of the correspondents were surprised - of course she's going to support the Democratic nominee. This is like how the Republicans are supporting McCain despite all their bashing of him earlier - they want ( Read more... )

Possible rape triggers. And maybe ED triggers, sort of. The fact that someone would say something like that is extraordinarily disturbing. Even if he was removed as a candidate, I'd still be distrustful of his party. Especially since it says the comments were "distorted and taken out of the context of a blog which reflected our tough stance on ( Read more... )

Kern vows not to apologize for remarks against homosexuals.What gets me? She used to be a social studies teacher, presumably in a high school. Given that out of my grad class of about 120 people there were at least two out gay males, a girl who came out about a year later, and a few bisexuals? In my fairly conservative small city. I hope she ( Read more... )

Chris Benoit of the WWE is dead. He, his wife, and his son were all found dead in their home today. Apparently it looks like murder-suicide, although they're not saying on whose part ( Read more... )

This is horrifying. Joss Whedon is my hero for this entry. So well written.

The media coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre is really starting to irritate me. They keep on trying to find a reason for why it happened. Trying to understand something is reasonable. But what they're doing is looking for someone to blame because "OMG HOW COULDN'T PEOPLE RECOGNIZE THE CRAZY SIGNS OF A MASS MURDERER ( Read more... )