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Tom Clancy's "The Division" -- E3 Gameplay Trailer

Cop Sexually Assaults Woman Then Arrests Her For Protesting

Kofi says...

Arrested for false allegations? Surely that has to be after the result of an enquiry as to the truth of the allegations, no?

How could either the court cop or the judge just sit there and accept something that is internally invalid and self-evidently fallacious? Fucking insane!

TYT - Bill O'Reilly Dismisses Young GOP Voters

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Bell follows up on the Rape Debate

Kofi says...

THIS is why you can't do rape jokes. Society is NOT mature or sensitive enough to know what to do with the subject matter. The anonymity of the internet is no excuse. This is what lurks underneath, internet or no internet. It does not lurk under all, or even most, but some and some is enough. Joking about it reduces its absolute prohibitive status and trivialises the severity of the impact it has on victims and families of all involved.

It is this absolute prohibition that is at stake here. Murder can be joked about because there is an underlying suspicion that we could all do it given the right provocations. Rape however does not have the same situationalist concept. It is not something we secretly want to do when we are frustrated. It is not something we wish on our loved ones to shut them up. It is not something to that is idly fantasized about in the same way that battery and murder are. Therefore, the "comedy" around it has no common ground except for the horror of the experience itself which relies on a victims experience being imagined in the minds of others. We may laugh out of shock but that is all there is, shock. Taboo makes us uncomfortable and we laugh when confronted with it if the circumstances are right and a comedy club instantiates such circumstances. The only comedy, as in laughter from shared premises taken to an unexpected extreme, to come from rape 'comedy' are jokes about 'rape comedy' itself.

Democracy Now! - NSA Targets "All U.S. Citizens"

Kofi says...

The Patriot Act: the biggest Trojan horse ever devised. It's made even worse by the fact that so many who bought it into being never even read it.

Maybe this is the way Americans finally learn what irony is with a "Patriot" act that undermines all that Americans hold dear - privacy, property and liberty.

Democracy Now! - Bradley Manning Trial First Day

Kofi says...

And Bob Carr has just withdrawn all consular support for Assange as a result of this citing that he is an unnecessary drain on resources. So much for principles.

Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) on Letterman

Undercover "Disabled Tour Guides" At Disneyland

Kofi says...

Agreed. On Friedman and the rest.

The report was one sided but that does not mean the users of these services are not blameworthy simply by omission.

Bad journalism, surely. But hardly mis-leading. Had they tried harder they could have targeted the users also.

Rep. Bridenstine (R - Okla) Questions Obama's Leadership

Kofi says...

THey edited out the part at the end where he added "... and yet there is no better person available to lead so que sera sera."

Undercover "Disabled Tour Guides" At Disneyland

Kofi says...

Who cares?

It becomes a circular problem. It you let anyone cut in then the line itself becomes redundant and the cut in line becomes the new line. Such special considerations can only operate on the basis that they are few and far between. Clearly these hucksters were not already at DL and were helping people out. They pimped out their services external to the venue. Freedman would not be proud for it isn't a sustainable system and economic Darwinism doesn't apply here.

Clearly it undermines the special status given to people with disabilities and risks the future tenability of such considerations.

Arya Stark recaps last episode(spoilers)

Kofi says...

So, it said "spoiler alert" and yet I still watched it before seeing the episode. Damn this show and it's addictiveness.

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