A Response From Pepsi
Today, a Pepsi-Cola Company representative posted this comment on Feministe as a response to my post about the “lifeguard ad”: Official Response from Pepsi-Cola Company: Pepsi-Cola Company wants to assure you that there’s absolutely no Pepsi advertisement in circulation that even remotely resembles the creative in question. After investigating this matter further, we learned that [...]
...read moreIs Libertarianism Dead?
Please say it’s true. And please say that this means high school seniors will no longer read Ayn Rand and decide that her novels are a good basis for a political philosophy. (And as long as we’re making wishes, I hope that if people do read Ayn Rand, they will at least walk away realizing [...]
...read moreJohn McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters
Via Racialicious comes this interesting video of Irwin Tang discussing his new book Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters, and the history of the slur itself. John McCain’s repeated and documented use of racial slurs against East/Southeast/Central Asian people immediately comes to my mind whenever someone — just about everyone and their brother, [...]
...read moreMcCain Can Still Win This — Let’s Change That.
For all the reasons Amanda says. A lot of people who plan on voting for Obama are going to show up to the polls only to find themselves ineligable to vote because of GOP voter purges. The Brennan Center for Justice put out a report last month about the purges, and it’s worth checking out [...]
...read moreDamn, why didn’t they have this when I was in school?
A $10,000 blogging scholarship. Send it to all the student bloggers you know. Now maybe I’ll go get that Master’s degree in Women’s Studies… Thanks to sista Chrissy for the link.
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