Black Marine Veteran killed in own home after accidentally calling authorities Read more at ONTD Po

old news, November, but:

http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/9503518.html

It is always worrying when real life starts imitating satire:

Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly (2000) (TV)

David Chappelle: Somebody broke into my house once, this is a good time to call the police, but mm mm, nope. The house was too nice. It was a real nice house, but they'd never believe i lived in it. They'd be like 'He's still here!
[whacks the microphone on the stand]

David Chappelle: Oh my god. Open and shut case, Johnson. I saw this once when I was a rookie. Apparently this n*gger broke in and put up pictures of his family everywhere.'


...I just, this is just horrifying. I've always found zombies scarier than vampires because both look like people, but zombies just don't give a damn about your humanity at all. Sure, the vampires might eat you, but they will remember who you are? Zombies don't give a damn about who you are, your thoughts, your feelings, it just doesn't register. Being at the mercy of something you don't have a hope of convincing at all is horrifying.

police officers mocked his father’s past as a marine. "For them to look at my father that way, (with) no regard for his life, every morning I think about it," he says.

OMG, Rachel Maddow is on Jon Stewart's show

I would of course, have to look up the transcript later, because all my brain could fit to think right now is, "OMG, make out now."


ETA:

Maddow: Conspiracy is easier to understand than complexity.

ETA 2:

Maddow: After the Vietnam war, Congress got back up on its hind legs...

Stewart: Congress is a Setter?

*Maddow makes pawing motions*


Why are you so adorable?

White Supremacist Hacks Trayvon Martin’s Email Account?

http://gawker.com/5897485/white-supremacist-hacks-trayvon-martins-email-account-leaks-messages-online

http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/9504900.html

That question mark in the title is there, because as a channer (albeit I'm at /an/imal and nature and stay the hell away from /b/ now), I'm familiar with the style of trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls: half the time, beneath the utterance of racist-sexist-homophobic epithet, there is a girl and/or racial minority and/or queer, just watch the beginning of the chanology movement, before there were newfags, the masks does not conceal all the diversity there is in Anonymous.

What I'm saying is, while the hacking of a dead person's email account is in itself disrespectful, what is leaked overall paints Trayvon in a more positive like, and as one ONTD commenter has pointed out, it is heartbreaking now, how Trayvon's inbox was filled with emails from universities he was applying to.

Klanklannon? Sounds like a straw character, like Stephen Colbert, like Soren Bowie from Cracked.com. Something played to the extreme to demonstrate how ridiculous what is being played is.

Or maybe I'm overthinking it, Anonymous can be anyone, including racists. That Awkward Moment when you realise the person you've been friendly with was NOT being satirical at all...

Or maybe this Anon was Zee Agent of Chaos - the anon could have done more damage by deleting all of Trayvon's positive traces, the university emails, the pictures showing how YOUNG 17 is. The anon could have done actual good by turning over the passwords to Trayvon's family. The anon chose to put everything up and let chaos follow. Some who was given access are using it to troll, some other who was given access, Gawker's source, chose to delete the Gmail account so other people can't use it (ProTip: Change the password?).

Bwhahaha, I don't believe anything on Gmail could ever be deleted - on that note, I hope Gmail turn over the account to Trayvon's parents, it could mean a lot to them.

stapled finger skin stapled finger skin

just skin, no blood, geez, have to pay attention

remember scene from Dead Like Me when George Lass was distracted by Cute Boy, and she fed her finger to the paper shredder! Good think Grim Reapers heal fast!

Pro Tip: If you are doing something with a great risk of paper cut: Tape the Tips!


...and I wish I have more healthy role models, I just KNOW my parents isn't, the reason they almost never fought, is because my mother was basically The Doormat and patriarchy apologist. I wish I have a more equitable model OTHER than my aunt and uncle, so I'll know whether their Office Disagreements are normal or not.