Young British Muslims Are Campaigning Against The Islamic State’s Corruption Of Their Religion – #NotInMyName
cool.
What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
Think-tanks and journalism: Making the headlines | The Economist.
“The divide between having ideas and reporting on them is dissolving”
No shit, Sherlock?
I’m a Woman Who Lived as a Boy: My Years as a Bacha Posh | TIME.
“In some ways America is a conservative society too, and it’s so important for many people to be either male or female. I have both in me now and that’s how I’ll always be.”
Here Are The Most-Googled Brands In Each State.
<facepalm> Oh, NH….
And they detained his son for the crime of defending his father. Florida is a pit and these cops should be charged with murder.
If Nixon’s resignation created the character culture in American politics, then Hart’s undoing marked the moment when political reporters ceased to care about almost anything else. By the 1990s, the cardinal objective of all political journalism had shifted from a focus on agendas to a focus on narrow notions of character, from illuminating worldviews to exposing falsehoods.
… a single-minded pursuit that reduced complex careers to isolated transgressions. As the former senator Bob Kerrey, who has acknowledged participating in an atrocity as a soldier in Vietnam, told me once, “We’re not the worst thing we’ve ever done in our lives, and there’s a tendency to think that we are.”
Maybe this made our media a sharper guardian of the public interest against liars and hypocrites. But it also made it hard for any thoughtful politician to offer arguments that might be considered nuanced or controversial. It drove a lot of potential candidates with complex ideas away from the process, and it made it easier for a lot of candidates who knew nothing about policy to breeze into national office, because there was no expectation that a candidate was going to say anything of substance anyway.
hmmm.
Un-American American gov mother fuckers…