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Racism: A Primer~*

Racism is sociologically defined (and therefore not going to be used in the DICTIONARY) as policies and practices put into place to enforce hierarchies. These hierarchies are also known as ways to keep white people in power.

In short, racism = prejudice + power. Power being…

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Jenny Lewis is a musician and songwriter from Los Angeles, CA, who is characterized by her sweet, torch-like voice, her dry sense of humor, and her ability to write a perfect pop song. She has been a part of the songwriting team behind Rilo Kiley along with Blake Sennett since 1998, and she has put out two solo efforts. Lewis currently performs under the moniker Jenny & Johnny with boyfriend Johnathan Rice, which draws on 90s slacker rock and boy-girl harmonies. Her lyrics are heartbreakingly honest, bittersweet and on-point, she knows how to knock out a hook, and she always balances between the dark and the heartbreaking. If you like ice cream, rainbows, puppies, music or basically life itself, listen to this woman.

Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat (2006)
1. The Big Guns
2. Rise Up With Fists!!!
3. Melt Your Heart
4. You Are What You Love
5. Born Secular

Acid Tongue (2008)
1. The Next Messiah
2. See Fernando
3. Jack Killed Mom
4. Acid Tongue
5. Pretty Bird

Jenny & Johnny - I’m Having Fun Now (2010)
1. Big Wave
2. My Pet Snakes
3. Switchblade
4. Just Like Zeus
5. Scissor Runner

A few B-sides and rarities
1. Barking at the Moon
2. Little Boxes (with Johnathan Rice)
3. Love Hurts (with Johnathan Rice)
4. Pelican Bay
5. The Highs and Lows of Being #1
6. Silver Lining (Acoustic)
7. Hard Enough (with Brandon Flowers)
8. Dorothy’s Song
9. Nothing Better (with The Postal Service, live on KCRW)
10. Paradise
11. Roll On (with Dntel)
12. Long Black Dress (live at the 9:30 Club)

“Viewed purely in the abstract, I think there can be no question that women should have equal rights with men.”…”Especially as regards the laws relating to marriage there should be the most absolute equality between the two sexes. I do not think the woman should assume the man’s name.” “The Practicability of Equalizing Men and Women before the Law” Senior thesis at Harvard, 1880

“Len Bias wins MVP”

Poor everyone on television, they just don’t know a single thing about the sports world. Len Bias is certainly an interesting name to throw into an alternate universe. He’s the young man who died of an overdose after being drafted 2nd overall by the Boston Celtics. However, he’d have been 45 in May of 2009 and 45 year olds don’t even play professional sports, much less win MVP awards.

New to tumblr, really only lurking on a few blogs, but in catching up on season 3 of Fringe I ran into the sixth episode “6955 kHz” and boy is it a gem. It makes me so mad that these people writing “Fringe” rarely pull off any believable Fringe science scenario, but this one is truly awful. So awful, that it’s forced me to get a tumblr account so I could rant about it to the world and/or no one at all.

How could the First People be millions of years old? Please! Clearly the writers don’t know a thing about anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary biology, or any other ology for that matter. The first primates did not even appear until the dinosaurs were extinct! Unless the theory of evolution is incorrect, and it’s not (and, just one more time in parentheses for good measure, IT’S NOT), there’s just not even a chance that some “First People” could pre-exist dinosaurs. Furthermore, how could the First People know and speak a bunch of modern languages (and precisely ZERO unknown to us today – there were no breaks in the code), use Arabic numerals, and have precisely the same latitude and longitude system as us! They even centered it on Greenwich, England just like the Royal Observatory (founded 1675) did!

Modern humans have been around for only 50-100 thousand years, but we hardly know anything accept what a few tools and a couple campsites looked like until about 10 thousand years ago. And no campsites once you go 30,000 years back. So my big problem is, why in the world would you not just say that it’s a civilization that is 42,000 years old instead of 420,000,000?!?!?! In real life actual history, it took only 10,000 years to get from the advent of agriculture to, I don’t know, internet on phones? Laser beams? Really excellent picture clarity on television screens? So, let’s be generous and let our fake science fiction people go an itty bitty bit faster, you can put in some part of the world that has since gone under water (more ice back then meant lower sea level). You could call it Atlantis even! Oh my god, show, you suck.