Internet Readalong
Jan. 15th, 2010 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
effex* I haven't had a chance to watch this yet, but the TEDTalks website is featuring Edwidge Danticat: Stories of Haiti: In the midst of an earlier crisis, Haitian author Edwidge Danticat reminds us of the contributions of Haiti's vibrant culture and people. This reading offers a timely message for today -- as the nation struggles in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake (filmed Oct. 2004).
* On Newsweek - The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage: Why same-sex marriage is an American value by Theodore B. Olson (link via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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* Adam Lambert's Whataya Want From Me music video is up (via the entire internet)! *________________________* ETA: Andbexless has a loving and hilarious review here.
* Train - Hey, Soul Sister
* Utada Hikaru - Devil Inside
* Beyonce - Sweet Dreams (I hear this one every time we go out to the gayborhood and I can. not. get it out of my head.)
* And some fine folks for Follow Friday:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
help_haiti, the fannish charity auction that you've seen a thousand times already. Go! Look! Donate! Also kaigou, for really excellent writing meta.
* Jay Smooth has a video up on Haiti: ...that we need to act not because Haiti is some nation of perennial victims that we need to have pity on; we need to act because Haiti is a nation of heroes and we need to repay them for what they've given us. That is what our responsibility is.
* Apparently there's a guest post up on FiveThrityEight that's a tentative defense of Pat Robertson's comments on Haiti (wtf?). Ta-Nehisi Coates takes it apart.
* And the NYTimes has a piece on why the Haitians had it coming, really (seriously, wtf?).jonquil responds here and here (same post, different comments).
* On Newsweek - The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage: Why same-sex marriage is an American value by Theodore B. Olson (link via
rm)* Adam Lambert's Whataya Want From Me music video is up (via the entire internet)! *________________________* ETA: And
bexless has a loving and hilarious review here.* Train - Hey, Soul Sister
* Utada Hikaru - Devil Inside
* Beyonce - Sweet Dreams (I hear this one every time we go out to the gayborhood and I can. not. get it out of my head.)
* And some fine folks for Follow Friday:
help_haiti, the fannish charity auction that you've seen a thousand times already. Go! Look! Donate! Also kaigou, for really excellent writing meta.* Jay Smooth has a video up on Haiti: ...that we need to act not because Haiti is some nation of perennial victims that we need to have pity on; we need to act because Haiti is a nation of heroes and we need to repay them for what they've given us. That is what our responsibility is.
* Apparently there's a guest post up on FiveThrityEight that's a tentative defense of Pat Robertson's comments on Haiti (wtf?). Ta-Nehisi Coates takes it apart.
* And the NYTimes has a piece on why the Haitians had it coming, really (seriously, wtf?).
jonquil responds here and here (same post, different comments).
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Date: 2010-01-16 09:49 pm (UTC)[pause for incoherent disbelief]
Yeah, the fact that this got published in the New York Times (and that piece on FiveThirtyEight) says a lot about our 'post racial' culture.