There are just so many reasons to love Sir Patrick Stewart.
He gets into the Halloween spirit, for one.
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Tagged Amnesty International, Combat Stress, Comic-Con, Comicpalooze, Doctor Who, domestic abuse, Fame Day, feminism, Hamlet, Harry Potter, Ian McKellan, Jean Luc Picard, Lord of the Rings, Men, Patrick Stewart, Professor Xavier, Refuge, respect, Ring the Bell campaign, sexism, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, television, video games, Violence, women, X-Men, YouTube
First thing’s first, I had every expectation that this episode was going to be super duper racist. It was not, but I’ll get to that in a bit because of how much of a big deal my second point is: Dang, this one lady could not get a enough of the jokes this week. She had one of those high-pitched shrieky laughs, too; it was nearly impossible to block her out and concentrate on the actual episode itself.
Now, if you type “2 broke girls racist” into Google you get 4,310,000 results. That speaks for itself, really. My review of the third episode of this season even received a few comments from an honest-to-goodness Polish person who wanted to assert that they do not believe that cats are the reincarnated souls of people who die outside. To be perfectly fair things were far worse in the first season concerning Han in particular. That being said, racist jokes on this show used to be a problem. They still are, but they used to be, too. Continue reading
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Tagged 2 Broke Girls, Ally Maki, And the Girlfriend Experience, Beth Behrs, Caroline, CBS, cheesecake, Chloe, Current Total, Earl, fake girlfriend, fan service, fandom, funny, Han, Han's mom, Jennifer Coolidge, June, Karen Maruyama, Kat Dennings, Korean, Korean Beauty June Kim AKA Sapphire, Matthew Moy, Max, new jammies, Oleg, physical humour, prostitute, racist, review, S3E7, Sapphire, ship, Sophie, Su-Min, television, Tumblr, TV
We really can’t get started on Fame Day without giving a shout-out to the youth of France, who have turned out en masse over the past couple days in protest of the forcible deportation of a Roma student who was taken from a school bus in the middle of a field trip. These students have been actively calling for the resignation of the popular anti-Roma Interior Minister, Manuel Valls, to resign, and since the beginning of the protests, French President Hollande has caved to the protest and declared that the formerly expelled Roma student will be allowed to return to school.
For all the flak I give France for their issues with bigotry and Islamophobia, I really have to tip my hat to these students. These are high schoolers coming out across the country to demand justice from their government, and lo and behold, they got responded to (in a way that didn’t exclusively involve tear gas). This took some guts and ingenuity I wish the youth in the US had- I don’t know the last time high schoolers protested independently on any issue (since the 70s, at least), and I really wish the same tradition of dissidence existed over here as it does in other countries.
But let’s move on to the star of the day:
Nate’s Vlogs.
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Tagged british, Chanel, common sense, customer service, deportation, dry, employee evalution, France, French President Hollande, hollande, humor, Islamophobia, Manuel Valls, Nate Fisher, Nate's Vlogs, retail, Roma, social services, social work, US, Valls, vlogs, Xenophobia, Youth, YouTube
I am all about Assassin’s Creed, you guys and girls. A series of games that mixes painstaking attention to historic detail and stabbing people with hidden blades? Yes, please; sign me up. Add the fact that their last game,
Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, featured
African-French Assassin Aveline de Grandpré scores them major points.
Having her team up with the protagonist of Assassin’s Creed III, the English/Mohawk Ratohnhaké:ton [Conor Kenway]? Icing on the cake.
The last time I wrote about this franchise I covered the racist backlash that Aveline’s character received, and how fans seemingly couldn’t accept the fact that she was a) a woman, and b) Black. I was of course thrilled because, hey, gender and racial diversity in extremely well-made games.
I ask readers of this blog to do this all too often, but imagine my excitement when I found out that Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag would be about pirates. I was beyond thrilled. Pirates are the coolest and you [and a good number of the later Pirates of the Caribbean films] will never be able to convince me otherwise. Continue reading
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Tagged Adewale, African, ancestor, Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD, Assasssin's Creed, Assasssin's Creed III: Liberation, Assasssin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Aveline de Grandpré, Black Flag, Conor Kenway, Desmond Miles, DLC, Edward Kenway, main character, main game, main storyline, pirate, pirates, race, Ratohnhaké:ton, video games
I work with a population the vast majority of whom live below the poverty line in one of tougher zip codes this side of the Rockies. I won’t say it’s the least stressful job I’ve had, but for all sweat shed and sleep lost, if nothing else you get an up close look at a part of life most people don’t want to even acknowledge exists.
Let’s talk about the poor of America, and how you’ve got a lousy attitude about them.
Now you might be thinking “Geez, stop the presses, a Commie is ranting about the treatment of the poor.”
Touché. Continue reading
Posted in America, bizarreness, internet, Shame Day
Tagged 15, Alcohol, android, bum, bus system, car, commie, Communist, computer, computer literacy, drugs, EBT, EBT card, energy drink, fancy car, food stamps, greg giraldo, Homeless, hour, internet, iphone, lazy, literacy, mcdonalds, millionaire, money, nice car, panhandler, poor, poverty, poverty level, poverty line, public transportation, red bull, rtc, smart phone, snap, socialist, under on the outside, Walmart, waltons, wealth, wealthy, welfare
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