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news roundup

Just Don't Go There

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6:30 PM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By Megan Carpentier
3,129 views, 67 comments

Latest by n/a: Those quote from Michael Savage are disgusting. But there's a bright side in that a lot of conservatives have autistic children and this attack may open their eyes to this man's reckless disregard for the truth. And if they tune more »

Leftovers

Black Canary Barbie Is A "Filthy" Girl • Marijuana Found At Indiana Girl Scout Camp

Religious groups speak out against that "filthy" Barbie doll based on Black Canary, a comic superhero who wears fishnets and a black leotard. • An office manager in the Sichuan province of China has become the first man jailed for sexually harassing a female worker. Sexual harassment and domestic violence laws have only been recently introduced in China • A real sweetheart named Paulette Nelson volunteers at a USO where she personally flies to greet and see off soldiers coming home from or leaving for Iraq and Afghanistan. • Female students in Bangladesh protest against sexual harassment on their campus and their university's handling of women who speak out against such acts as "indecorous." • A study finds that people can generally agree on what makes a voice attractive, but it cannot be successfully scientifically mapped. More »

6:30 PM on Wed Jul 16 2008
By Maria
4,614 views, 68 comments

Latest by SleeplessNights: @Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.: I totally agree that both men and women have unrealistic physiques, and tried to make that plain in my posts. Both sexes equally idealized to the point of unacheivability. It does strike me that the more »

clips

In China, Child Kidnappings Are An Equal Opportunity Affair

Last night saw the broadcast premiere of the documentary China's Stolen Children, in which filmmaker Jezza Neumann focuses on the epidemic of child kidnappings in the Olympic host country (some 70,000 a year) through the story of 5-year-old Chen Jie, who was snatched a few months prior to principal photography. The reasons for the raft of kidnappings, the film explains, can be directly traced to the country's one-child policy and its preference for baby boys... which has also given rise to a market for females that families can then marry off to their sons. Above left, a clip of Chen Jie's parents, followed by an interview with Wang Li, a trafficker who "explains" the trade in young women and girls. (A schedule of upcoming showings is here.) More »

1:30 PM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By Anna
3,750 views, 71 comments

Latest by thatonegirlsays: I'm super stoked that this is where the IOC decided to have the Olympics. more »

Leftovers

Everyone Sees Themselves In Hello Kitty • China Mixes Opera With Hip Hop For Olympics Cheerleaders

Hello Kitty's success could be explained because consumers viewed her as a "blank canvas" of possibility and could mean different things to different people. One thing: she is always adorbs!• In less than a decade, STDs among Americans 45-years-old and older has doubled. Maybe 'tis time to practice what you preach about safe sex, parents? • There are no "dangerous dogs," only irresponsible and dangerous dog-owners. • China prepares 600 cheerleaders, who mix "elements from traditional Peking opera into more typical hip-hop routines" for the Olympics. So kinda like Carmen: A Hip-Hopera in Beijing? • Debrett's Etiquette Guide For Girls will be republished in a new edition this fall, with updated rules such as no grunting or screaming at the gym. More »

5:40 PM on Tue Jul 8 2008
By Maria
2,383 views, 62 comments

Latest by LucyInTheSky777: @MockTurtle: no, that bothered me too. i nearly puked reading that 11 year old beauty queen thing. more »

Actual feminist heroes

Lin Zhao Wrote Poetry In Blood So Her Comrades Could Run Their Liquor-Addled Mouths

This is obscure Chinese poet Lin Zhao. She was executed by the Chinese government in 1968, at the age of 36 and the height of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. For the decade or so prior she had been imprisoned, for the crime of not confessing to being a counterrevolutionary. Maybe a half million people died during the Cultural Revolution and Lin Zhao probably would have gone completely forgotten, but for the fact that she'd earned a reputation as being one of the few women at her college who liked to drink and dance and run her mouth, and also the fact that she was so pissed about being locked up and tortured when she'd been such a devoted Communist that she wrote hundreds of thousands of words worth of poetry about it, using her own blood. More »

1:00 PM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Moe
7,881 views, 74 comments

Latest by n/a: Mao made all the people cut down trees and flowers, so they would have nothing of beauty with which to compare their sordid and despairing lives. Let us never forget the true martyrs for this age. more »

The suspicious death of young girl has sparked rioting in southwest China, Reuters reports. 10,000 people attacked government offices in Weng'an county, Guizhou province when the girl's body surfaced in a local river. You see, the government called the death a suicide, but residents believe that the girl was raped and murdered by the relative of a government official. (There are YouTube videos documenting the violence.) According to Reuters, "The girl's family had rejected the authorities' offer of 3,000 yuan ($440) compensation, later upped to 30,000 yuan, and residents had donated money to the family to sue local authorities." Mentions of the incident were recently removed from Chinese websites, as China wants to keep its image as pleasant as possible in the run up to the Beijing Olympics. [Reuters, YouTube]

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snap judgment

Keanu Reeves Looks Ready To (China) Chow Down

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Pandamonium We love you, Coco Wang. Based in Beijing, Coco was inspired to create a series of comics called Earthquake Strips about the recent devastation in China. Wang says of her art, "I hope these stories could show the UK readers the love, warmth and courage of the Chinese people, also the sad and cruel reality of the horrible 5.12 Earthquake." The illustration at left is from a strip called "Panda Panda." Check out a full-size image of that particular illustration by clicking on the pandas. [Earthquake Strips via Paul Gravett via Boing Boing]

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crappy hour

Is Fox News Looking For Drama With Obama's "Baby Mama"?

Oh, this will warm your heart: Fox News has dubbed Michelle Obama Barack's "Baby Mama." See, because "baby mama" is a term originating in the African American community used to delineate a status of romantic partner, somewhere between common-law spouse and "boo," that one attains by fathering or giving birth to a child. Over the years, as the term — which rhymes not only with "Obama" but more common terms like "drama" and "Cappadonna" — grew more common, it was embraced and co-opted by the Caucasian community to the point that it un-controversially became the name of a Tina Fey movie with two white leads and even, I believe, once used by my father as a term of endearment for my mother, who incidentally, popped out her firstborn (me) three years after exchanging vows with him. All of which is to say: isn't this great? It still isn't fully acceptable for even the most "down" white dudes to refer to their black friends as "My N—--" — and, let's be honest, "my nizzle" sounds really stupid — but thanks to Fox News it's now okay for white folks to refer to such a fearsomely accomplished, disciplined black woman as Michelle Obama as Barack's "baby mama." Doesn't she seem more approachable already? Anyway, that and China finally says something to Darfur about their genocide problem, another "consummate Washington insider" finds himself on the outs, Nigerian pirates and why I called Geraldine Ferraro "sweetie" with Megan after the jump. More »

10:00 AM on Thu Jun 12 2008
By Moe
8,392 views, 257 comments

Latest by Bob_of_Mars: I apologize if this has already been addressed, as I don't have time to go through all of these posts, but @girlscoutcookie: 'Baby Mama' and 'My Baby's Daddy' are not the same thing, IIRC. Baby Mama being more offensive more »

news roundup

Cute Kids, Men And The Truth About Wine

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6:00 PM on Wed Jun 11 2008
By Megan Carpentier
3,692 views, 65 comments

Latest by n/a: Judge Kozinsky, nominated to the 9th Cir. by Reagan, has consistently been on the USSC short list. More importantly, he was a winning bachelor on the Dating Game back in the day. Check the footage. He was cute, but now more »

the bushnell administration

Carrie Bradshaw's Method Of Investigative Journalism Gains Favor In China

How do transplanted Chinese in Manhattan feel about Sex & The City? What with the media's acknowledged reluctance to cover anything related Sex & The City, it's little wonder they hadn't gotten around to approaching it from this fascinating angle. Until now! Bilingual Wall Street Journal contributor Li Yuan, whose column "Beautiful Country" chronicles her life as a Chinese expat in New York for audiences in the US and Asia, attacks this subject in today's column, which she reported the way Carrie would: by asking her friends! "The show didn't mention how the characters became successful and rich," points out a 24-year-old banker. "I'm sure they worked very hard when they were my age." A 28-year-old trader has a more jaundiced view. "I find some of its content pretty disgusting," he said. "To me, New York turned out to be more like the city in Friends. More »

6:00 PM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Moe
3,508 views, 29 comments

Latest by amowls: @mtbee: My Chinese mother (who is from Malaysia) fondly uses "White Devil" to refer to my father. more »

PandaSexLoveSounds A new documentary will answer everything you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask, about panda sex. Wild China: Land of the Panda, the BBC's first production in conjunction with Chinese state television, is the only program to capture the panda courtship and mating rituals in all their noisy glory, reports the Telegraph. The paper describes the panda sex sounds as "extraordinary vocalisations," and producer Gavin Maxwell says "The sounds are so unlikely and just the last thing you would expect a panda to make." [Telegraph]

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the price we pay

Your Clothes Are Not Made In America, Which Is Why You Can Afford Them

How much did you pay for the last item of clothing you purchased? Was it a bargain? As The New York Times reports: "As consumers adjust to soaring prices for gasoline, food, education and medical care, just about the only thing that seems a bargain today is clothes — mainstream clothes, anyway." Part of the reason stuff is so affordable? Most of it is made overseas. In a piece for Forbes, Lauren Sherman writes: "Unless you're a 19-year-old with a closet full of American Apparel items, it's very rare to see the words 'Made in the U.S.A.' stamped on the tag of your shirt." Even Coach bags are made in China. More »

1:00 PM on Fri May 30 2008
By Dodai
7,472 views, 220 comments

Latest by n/a: @jezehell: Hey there, Dad C! It's great to see my father-in-law posting! more »

crappy hour

Former Bush Propagandist Scott McClellan's Book Uses Term "Propaganda," "Sounds Like A Left-Wing Blogger"

If there was a Bush administration official who was as painful to listen to as Bush himself — and that is probably scientifically impossible but humor us for a second — it was Scott McClellan. Dana Perino is dumb but so prettily, unabashedly so, Victoria Clarke always had those insane purple suits, Rumsfeld made his ruthless philosophies on statecraft into a hypnotic C-Span smugfest, Tony Snow even had a sense of humor. But when McClellan got the job, the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz described him as "soft-spoken, self-deprecating and so cautious that he [made] Ari Fleischer sound like a gangsta rapper." And now he's out with a tell-all (called, appealingly, What Happened?) (my punctuation) that apparently sounds like the ravings of "a left-wing blogger!" Hey Scott, welcome to the crew! Drinks on us at the next EschaCon! Anyway, after the jump, Megan and I parse the posts of some blogposters who parsed the book, plus, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's Facebook page, that Burma underwear project and Barack Obama's poker prowess. More »

10:30 AM on Wed May 28 2008
By Moe
2,938 views, 138 comments

Latest by Her Grace: The IR majors aren't all creepy and intense. I can just tell you a lot about wanky political theory. I got both my BA and MA (well, I'm ABD) in IR. It's really interesting if you don't more »

rants

Can Sharon Stone Teach The (Idiot) (First) World To Stop Babbling About "Karma" Already?

So, Sharon Stone has blamed "bad karma" for the Chinese earthquake. By that rationale, an earthquake that has killed just under a hundred thousand people in a largely Tibetan province of western China is some sort of punishment for the central government's paranoid repression of its Tibetan population. Now, it goes without saying that Sharon Stone's only discernible quality (not feature) is that she's a fucking idiot. She came around to Tibetan Buddhism via Richard Gere after a supposedly long romance with Scientology. She has lied about everything from belonging to Mensa to the Tanzanian government's dispensing of mosquito nets. Of AIDS, she has said, "AIDS is what happens when you forget to look at the person next to you." But today, I give thanks to Sharon Stone, because perhaps her ignorant, idiotic words will remind all of us how fucking inane it is to invoke "karma" in most conversation, i.e. "Karma is a bitch." KARMA IS NOT A BITCH. Saying "karma is a bitch" to couch in hippie moral superiority a basic conveyance of schadenfreude is highly irritating. For one thing: More »

1:00 PM on Tue May 27 2008
By Moe
5,678 views, 106 comments

Latest by cavegirl: Sharon, please, can I have my dress back? My next-cave-door-neighbors are throwing a big party tonight. :) more »

crappy hour

War Is Hell, But Troops Are Hot!

Welcome back reader(s.) While you were drinking Bloody Marys to soothe the damage inflicted by your spirited displays of appreciation for our troops and/or the house you bought last year, this guy was fighting the Taliban. Yes there are still 34,000 American troops doing that! But supposedly, this time, they are winning, which would sort of lend credence to Bill Kristol's assertion that the media is covering up the inspiring success story that is the war, which is sort of why I don't really buy it, since Bill Kristol's assertions about media cover ups are probably about as grounded in reality as Bill Clinton's assertions about media cover ups, which is to say: yesterday Bill Clinton said the media was covering up the fact that Obama can't win. This stands in contrast to Hillary, who thinks he might win as long as he doesn't get assassinated first like back in 1968, the year two Egyptian med school students met and formed the modern-day jihad movement. Much has changed since then, as stories in this week's New Yorker and New Republic about jihadists' disenchantment with killing people will illuminate (also for instance, Megan and I were born.) So your life could be complete upon clicking through to the jump! More »

10:30 AM on Tue May 27 2008
By Moe
3,909 views, 124 comments

Latest by n/a: @Russell's old room: Yes, I do. A phony apology is meaningless. These are people who were part of a group who blew up buildings 35+ years ago, during an intensely radical time in our history. What they did has to be viewed more »

crappy hour

Hillary Explains How Obama Is Sort Of Like An African Dictator

Hillary Clinton just compared the disenfranchisement of voters in those two states that chose to disenfranchise their primary voters to the disenfranchisement of voters in Zimbabwe. Thanks Hills! I thought I drank away all my capacity for nuance last night but I can still sorta see how that might piss some people off. And speaking of piss! R. Kelly's lawyers are trying to convince a jury that he only digitally golden-showered that girl, Karl Rove is advising Barack Obama in the great game of diplomacy, and speaking of the Game, Al Sharpton denies Dr. Dre's charges that he blackmailed the two of them. All that plus something about how China is to blame for oil prices being so high and Jack Cafferty is to blame for them hating us there as Megan navigates the murky waters of the day's news and I try to follow, after the jump. More »

10:00 AM on Thu May 22 2008
By Moe
4,113 views, 281 comments

Latest by joellevand: @KimberleeJ: Wait, what? more »

quaking in their stiletto boots

Chinese Fashion Magazines' Tribute To Earthquake Victims Not Exactly "Tasteful"

You know how we like to get all outraged when Vogue runs a photo shoot featuring lithe models in depressed impoverished regions of the world? Well, things work differently in China. You can have your entire magazine shut down and your staff sent away to "rectification" camp for offensive shit like that. And by "like that," I mean, "Oh, my god, so much worse, what kind of tainted drugs were they on?":

A newspaper in Chongqing Municipality has been suspended from publishing due to its "unique" coverage of the Sichuan earthquake in which it used bikini-clad women to pose amongst the rubble on the front page, Chongqing Daily reported.

Now, I know that sounds relatively tame but…

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6:00 PM on Wed May 21 2008
By Moe
7,801 views, 34 comments

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