Kscriv Posted January 23, 2012 Report Share Posted January 23, 2012 Or we could make a thread where we humorously change the title every hour or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted January 23, 2012 Report Share Posted January 23, 2012 Westboro will be picketing his funeral. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted January 23, 2012 Report Share Posted January 23, 2012 As much as they're attention whores (and I like how they're calling them a "church" now)... the logic that they're using to picket his funeral actually makes sense. oO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted January 23, 2012 Report Share Posted January 23, 2012 If she thought of the children before she thought of how much publicity they'll get from picketing the funeral, I have a hat ready to saute'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted January 23, 2012 Report Share Posted January 23, 2012 As much as they're attention whores (and I like how they're calling them a "church" now)... the logic that they're using to picket his funeral actually makes sense. oO No it doesn't. It's like a dog shitting on your hated neighbours lawn, yes its an upside for you right now but the dog had no idea what it was doing and tomorrow it'll be right back to yours again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted January 23, 2012 Report Share Posted January 23, 2012 As much as they're attention whores (and I like how they're calling them a "church" now)... the logic that they're using to picket his funeral actually makes sense. oO Someone should go to them and be like "WAIT WAIT WAIT! You're picketing a BAD person's funeral! You're doing your thing wrong!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted January 23, 2012 Report Share Posted January 23, 2012 As much as they're attention whores (and I like how they're calling them a "church" now)... the logic that they're using to picket his funeral actually makes sense. oO Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 As recently as last week, Newt Gingrich's communications director has been criticized by editors on Wikipedia for dozens of edits he has made and requested in defense of his candidate. While some of the changes were minor, Joe DeSantis has removed or asked to remove factual references to Gingrich's three marriages as well as mentions of ethics charges brought against him while he served as speaker of the House. These efforts continued as recently as Monday.....http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/06/gingrich-spokesman-defends-wikipedia-edits I recently read 1984, so this article got me a lot angrier than I normally would be about this sort of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted February 10, 2012 Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 VEVO, which is owned by some of the major record labels were illegally streaming NFL games at Sundance. Keep in mind that these are the people suing anyone pirating music. http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/09/music-labels-joint-venture-vevo-shows-pirated-espn-game-at-sundance/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 R.I.P. Whitney Houston Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Yipes. Don't do drugs, kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Don't jump to conclusions yet. It's probably an OD but there's nothing saying that yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Even if it's not an OD, the last five years have been kinda wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted February 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Damn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Another celebrity death. Looks like I'll be staying off Facebook for the next week or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Whitney was actually our second celebrity death. First was Peter Breck, star of many television westerns of the 60s and 70s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted February 18, 2012 Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 The Maryland House passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage today. It still has to pass in the Senate, and then it will probably be put on the ballot in November, but still, I'm proud of my state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted February 18, 2012 Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 This is probably the most offensive thing I've ever seen from a respected company like ESPN. Someone better get fired. Last night, ESPN.com's mobile web site posted an offensive headline referencing Jeremy Lin at 2:30 am ET. The headline was removed at 3:05 am ET. We are conducting a complete review of our cross-platform editorial procedures and are determining appropriate disciplinary action to ensure this does not happen again. We regret and apologize for this mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Posted February 18, 2012 Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 Not for nothing, but I read that and nothing offensive came to mind. It had to be spelled out for me. This Jeremy Lin story has been dominating for the last little while. Heck, while running errands, I listened to five ESPN podcasts full of Lin talk. Everyone has seemed to have been waiting for the other shoe to drop. The shoe dropped. And see what I just typed there. Waiting for the other show to drop. A commonly used idiom. Just like a chink in the armor. Replace Jeremy Lin in that photo and replace it with Tim Tebow. Is there outrage? No. I get why it was pull and ESPN is trying to spin this. PR spin control. People saw something and in the twitter age, it gets attention. But, like I said to start, I saw nothing because I wasn't looking for anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted February 18, 2012 Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 The fact that the whole thing is used as a pun towards him, and chink is a full on racist term makes it a big deal. If you don't see a problem with it, then that's part of the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Posted February 18, 2012 Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 Yes, it is a racial slur. However, chink in the armor is commonly used phrase that has zero racial overtones. Can the phrase not have been use because the media (mainly ESPN) have been building this guy up to be Superman or the Knicks 'Knight In Shinning Armor"? I just read this. It's an ugly word that happens to double as a type of fissure that would serve as an Achilles heel of sorts in a knight's suit of armor. I'm not being overly cautious when I tell you without looking that, honestly, I wouldn't be shocked if I used that phrase in my breakdown of New York's acquisition of J.R. Smith from Friday, or any other post that or any other day. It's a go-to sports cliché. So, if it is a go-to sports cliche, then why cannot it be used in this sports story? I'll leave it at this. Think back to the story about Kilowog last year. Someone saw racial overtones in the name. Doesn't make it true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted February 18, 2012 Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 Yeah, I didn't even realize it was a racial slur at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfield Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 I despise the constant and often inaccurate cries of racism in this country, especially in sports. So when I say that there's a massive racist bias against Asian athletes, I really do mean it. And to use a phrase like "Chink in the Armor"there's no way that was a mistake. It's disgraceful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Robinson Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 Not for nothing, but I read that and nothing offensive came to mind. It had to be spelled out for me. See, it hit me straight away. I know it's an age old saying that was never designed to cause offence, but I also know I'd never it to describe an Asian person because I've heard "chink" used by people who were obnoxiously, awfully racist. Hell, I've heard that exact phrase used to make fun of an Asian person. I'd like to believe that the person who wrote it was ignorant of the word's use as a racial slur, but that's not my gut reaction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James D. Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 Time to go into George Carlin mode here: I think the problem is that people find words offensive at all. Words are just a collection of letters thrown together. They are completely neutral. It's the racist asshole saying them that you need to worry about. That article header in and of itself is harmless. "Chink in the armor" is a phrase that has been used for a very long time. It's people who look for things to be offended by that cause censorship to be the rampant problem it is in today's society. </end George Carlin mode> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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