A Modest Construct

A recent e-mail entitled “Ebonics”:

My name be Ebonies Li Herenandez, an AfricanHispanicAsiatic-American girl who just got an award for being the best speler in class. I got 67% on the speling test and 30 points for being black, 5 points for not binging drugs into class, 5 points for not…

From Stirling McLaughlin comes this laughable piece of prudish propaganda.

Yes, I understand that they’re trying to deal with a serious issue in a “hip” way, but did you notice that there was no mention at all about “safe” sex, or any indication of multiple partners? Intravenous drug use? Anything? No, it…

It reads like something you’d see on Engrish:

TORONTO - Doris Moore was shocked when her new couch was delivered to her home with a label that used a racial slur to describe the dark brown shade of the upholstery.

The situation was even more alarming for Moore because it was her…

According to Ars, there are plans to make a Manhunt 2, and not only that, but there are plans to release it for the Nintendo Wii.

There are several things about this which surprise me.

1. The original Manhunt wasn’t a very good game. I played it, and it was very much a…

I understand that news companies are attempting to give an unbiased view of the news, even when they clearly aren’t (”We report, You decide” my ass, FNC).

But I agree very much with Jon Stewart’s view of the media as feckless and overly corporate—not everything, as he says, should be reported…

The Buffalo Beast’s annual “Most Loathsome” list is damn near the highlight of my year. I won’t give it much of an introduction: I’ll let a few choice excerpts speak for themselves.

38. Carlos Mencia

Charges: A German-Honduran who pretends to be Mexican so he can engage in jovial slurs about “beaners” and…

In the grand tradition of the war profiteers of old, there are shysters peddling a commemorative coin that you need (possibly several of them), or else you’re going to forget all about September 11, and then the terrorists truly have won.

They have an animated image that has to be on of my…

P.Z. Myers isn’t really happy. I’m allowing myself a day of blissful jubilation before I return to my own cynicism. Or maybe less.

The Republican/Democrat binary in this country allows voters the ability to judge the worthiness of a candidate based entirely on their label, and not on any individual merit.…

I’ve been watching the recent Ted Haggard debacle with some interest. I remember first hearing about him in a special that Richard Dawkins did for the BBC. Haggard struck me as a particularly pompous and arrogant guy, smiling a smarmy smile, looking like a rustic Tony Robbins. On camera, he…