Archive for Bread and Circuses
Scrutiny Hooligan Evolution – 9 Year Anniversary
Posted by: | CommentsHooligans,
Just a couple of sample shots of the Scrutiny Hooligan page from the beginning til now. Get out there and enjoy the day!
“If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant. And you have an obligation to do something.” - June Callwood
“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.” - Richard Bach
“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.” - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Random Thursday Variousness
Posted by: | CommentsLadies and Gentlemen, we’ve arrived in the vast cornfields of Canada…*
Another day, another death. Today’s featured death is Muhammad Ziad Awad Salaymah a 17 year old Palestinian teenager shot dead in West Bank. He pulled a toy pistol from his belt at a Israeli checkpoint, and was gunned down by IDF soldiers. Protests ensued. The use of leathal force against non-violent protesters is left to the discretion of Soldiers in the field. The US give an average of $3 billion a year in military aid to Israel (that’s billion with a “B”).
Israeli soldiers use rubber-coated metal bullets, tear gas bombs and stun grenades against non-violent protesters in the the West Bank – in addition to spraying them with water mixed with chemicals. These tactics have led to the injuries of hundreds and even several deaths among protesters.
Here’s some random stuff to read/discuss/ignore (after the break):
Random Wednesday Variousness
Posted by: | CommentsIt’s 12.12.12. Do with that what you will. In the past 24 hours there have been approximately 153,400 deaths world-wide ( with approximately 356,201 births, do with that what you will), one of those deaths belonged to Ravi Shankar, again, do with that what you will. Also, several people were shot and killed at a mall in Portland, by a man wearing a white mask and brandishing a semi-automatic rifle. He killed himself. Also, North Korea shot something off, and had a parade. They are fond of parades.
Here’s some random stuff to read/discuss/ignore (after the break):
A Flash of Irish Anger at a Tea Party Talker
Posted by: | CommentsOff the YouTube machine via Upworthy:
“From May 2010, an exchange between Michael D Higgins (who was elected President of Ireland last year) and Tea Party-loving radio guy Michael Graham on Irish radio.”
Karoli dug into the origins of this event in an Irish pub:
[Radio talker] Graham was going down the usual neocon astroturf Tea Party road, and President Higgins served him a hefty helping of humility with applause included. This clip starts in the middle of the interview, where Graham has evidently labeled some people — I’m not sure who — as antiSemitic, which causes Higgins’ Irish temper to boil over and explode on the air. Graham had no idea what hit him.
The funniest part is that Higgins does to Graham what Graham was hoping to do to Higgins. The crowd was stirred, all right, but not in Graham’s direction. As he moves from health care to tea party racism to foreign policy and back again, all Graham can do is sputter.
You’re welcome.
Unequal Pay Makes Me So Angry!
Posted by: | CommentsDo Capuchin monkeys have a more finely honed sense of fairness than ours?
From The Atlantic:
Many humans have highly developed senses of fairness and morality, and it seems monkeys aren’t far behind. Alex Tabarrok highlights research by Emory University psychologist Dr. Frans B.M. de Waal, who studied how monkeys and other mammals share many of our social mores. The reaction to unequal pay is (ahem) priceless.
On the Origins of Hooligans
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Via the Atlantic Cities’ Arts and Lifestyles pages, The Original Hooligans:
Dating back to at least the 1880s, the word “hooligan” was actually the name of a family of cartoon characters who, during the 1890s, frequently graced the cover of the English comic literary journal Nuggets – “A Serio-Comic Budget of Pictures & Stories.” The Hooligans were a family of Irish immigrants living in London, but not quite fitting in. Drawn by T.S. Baker and captioned with thick Irish accents, the Hooligan family typically displays odd and buffoonish behavior that’s juxtaposed against the properness of English culture.
Deriving from the Irish surname Houlihan, says the Online Etymological Dictionary, “which figured as a characteristic comic Irish name in music hall songs and newspapers of the 1880s and ’90s.”
Bele Chere Post Mortem Ficelle Libre
Posted by: | CommentsUse this space to offer up your Bele Chere thoughts/experiences, or anything else you may want to make known to the world.
Average Voter Goes to the Buncombe Co. YD City Council Candidate Forum
Posted by: | CommentsSo first thing you need to know is that there is no Internet access here, so my promised live tweet of this Buncombe YD meet and greet/forum is coming to you not instantaneously as you have perhaps become accustomed. Also, I’m no court stenographer, but I did the best I could in transcribing the candidates answers to the various questions…
- 9:39 Gordon Smith enters the theatre wearing a fancy hat.
