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May 16 bookworm commented on It's Spring! Who's Ready for Street Harassment?.

These images have begun appearing in Oakland in response to crap like this. Perhaps folks who believe in countering this can print out some copies on sticker paper, and get to work making these messages more visible (PDF at bottom of article)...

http://designaction.org/2013/05/stop-str…

P.S. Sorry for what happened to you, Cienna.

Feb 20 bookworm commented on The Greatest Rapper of All Time.

I totally agree that "Follow the Leader" is a milestone in hip-hop history...video YouTubewww.youtube.com/watch?v=95gP3m-uB…

Feb 13 bookworm commented on Charles Krafft Is a White Nationalist Who Believes the Holocaust Is a Deliberately Exaggerated Myth.

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Feb 13 bookworm commented on Charles Krafft Is a White Nationalist Who Believes the Holocaust Is a Deliberately Exaggerated Myth.

The Institute for Historical Review, mentioned above as a cited source by Krafft in disputing the numbers of Jews killed in the Holocaust, is well-known for being a Holocaust denial organization.

Feb 7 bookworm commented on Scientology Exposed.

Another great book is Inside Scientology by Janet Reitman, which is only about a year or so old. Haven't read Wright's book yet, but that book has a great journalistic take on the church as well. And Kate Bornstein's A Queer and Pleasant Danger is wonderfully sad and inspiring at the same time.

Feb 6 bookworm commented on Bill Would Require Every High School Student in Idaho to Read Atlas Shrugged.

This is surefire way to get high schoolers to hate reading.

Jan 28 bookworm commented on Gunman Opens Fire Inside the Twilight Exit.

The Twilight has been my favorite Seattle bar for over 12 years (through two different moves). As such, the folks there feel like part of my community of friends. Wishing the two injured folks--esp. the door person who was injured, who I'm assuming I must have known--nothing but speedy recovery and comfort in this time of confusion and hurt.

Trollers, please just stop.

Dec 20, 2012 bookworm commented on I Regret to Inform You the World Is Ending Tomorrow.

Man, Cienna, you really nailed it with masturbating and eating steak. I think I'm going to quit my job to make this happen all day.

Dec 11, 2012 bookworm commented on When's the General Strike?.

Add to that the challenges in reaching some sort of consensus around goals of such an action, what accomplishing those goals might look like and how to keep folks unified behind those goals, and you've got a whole other level of potential clusterfuckery.

But if folks were willing to take on such challenges, I think an action like this could be something.

Dec 11, 2012 bookworm commented on When's the General Strike?.

A general strike would have to be longer than a day to have any impact. These days, politicians and big business can easily deal with one day of mass protest (take for example, the big one-day protests leading to the Iraq War). But if it was sustained, the way such things sometimes are in Europe and other places in the world, it might actually have an impact.