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So I’m listening to a story about Ousmane Sembène, and his new film coming out this weekend called Moolaadé on NPR and they’re doing two things that really bother me: – First, they keep called him sem-BANE, and not sem-BEN. Argh. – Second, they perpetuate the stereotype of “African” issues — he’s referred to as an “African” director, and talks about the reactions of “African” people, and not once during the interview do they mention that he’s from Senegal. C’mon…

Pickers to Vintners: A Mexican-American Saga (New York Times, October 17 2004) Living la vida vino ÁQue rico! More winemakers of Mexican heritage are making their mark on the wine world (The San Francisco Chronicle, October 7 2004) I feel like the Chronicle did something like this about a year ago, but I can’t find where. Gordon Thomas, this author/journalist living in Ireland, has written an article in El Mundo (Spain) saying that Bin Laden is in China, and that…

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UNITED NATIONS – The United States has refused to join 85 other heads of state and government in signing a statement that endorsed a 10-year-old U.N. plan to ensure every woman’s right to education, health care, and choice about having children. President Bush (news – web sites)’s administration withheld its signature because the statement included a reference to “sexual rights.” U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kelly Ryan wrote to organizers of the statement that that the United States was…

“If Cartman were to get his own small Asian country, he’d run it a lot like Kim Jung Il.” – Matt Stone, to Terry Gross on “Fresh Air” October 14, 2004

Bush: 7.5 Kerry: 8.75 – What was with the almost exactly identical outfits? Someone really needs to bust out with a wacky tie one of these days. Black suit, white shirt, red tie with white dots, American flag on the left lapel? – Bush has been coached and has gotten better relative to himself over the past debates. – Bush likes to check that the lectern isn’t running away, he hit it about 20 times during the debate. – As…

I can’t deal with comment spam anymore and I can’t get the MT-Blacklist to work, so I’m shutting down comments on this blog indefinately.

Well, last night, anyway. I had thought about live-blogging it, but was glad someone did it for me in a much funnier way that I could have done.

New story in Wired News — this grew out of an assignment that I had last week for RW1.

We had to go on police ride-a-longs last night. Mine was rather uneventful. We were asked to send around via email something memorable from the night. Sarmad, our student from Baghdad, had this experience: Hi, As I , Channing and two policemen from the 76th Precinct approached a group of people who were apparently spending the weekend near Red Hook Park in Brooklyn, the two policemen and Channing started to laugh at two “ostensibly women” who were buying some food…