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January 31st, 2012 at 3:06PM

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William Klein - La Fête de l’Indépendance, Dakar 1963

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January 31st, 2012 at 1:04PM

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Feminist Frequency: Lego & Gender

FF host Anita Sarkeesian takes on LEGO’s troubling gender-specific toys:

“LEGO announced that after 4 years of intensive research, they have finally come up with a LEGO product that fulfills the desires of “how girls naturally build and play.” This new theme is called LEGO Friends and it’s a pink and purple, gender segregated, suburban wasteland populated by Barbie/Bratz style dolls.”

WATCH

WTF Lego?

TSJGR.

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January 31st, 2012 at 12:00PM

Ok. Am done. Tired. Fuck all of you Kenyans (my gossip self included) whose imaginations are so narrow, whose facebook/blogs conversations restricted to Uhuru, Raila. All of you deserve to see your country fall: you are addicted to tribal gossip, and asking only :the question will so and so become president? Instead of “how do we build a strong republic?” “We. Not they. You are not inside a conversation, you are witnesses to the spectacle that your masters have created for you. You consume the spectacle like entertainment. You have no power, no say. Your regurgitate mitumba opinions you cut pasted from three columnists in the Nation. You worship four people, they are all the news,all politics, all your passion. Your whole Sunday. Fuck you all. Fuck especially Raila, fuck especially Uhuru – Fuck Ruto – and their mediocrities and entitlements. Fuck you for all the boring, BOOOOORING endless speculations and political gossips on NOTHING that will be everywhere this election year that all mean nothing. Wall to wall. Fuck you for jumping to attention when your kings cough. Fuck you for those conversations right now taking place everywhere that start with those bad boring sentences that produce black holes of nothing but photocopied small minded violence and hate, “the problem with Kambas is that they…” The problem with you is that you are boring. BORING. You give your four kings your unlimited worship for nothing in return. Ok, now that is out of the way, I want to watch some tennis today. Sunday papers are banned. I want pancakes. I want to pinch your noses and threaten you with a gun. Go and have good sex and burn the newspaper. —

An 80-proof rant credited to Kenyan satirist Binyavanga Wainaina.

The great thing about satire is its a universal emotional language. You don’t need to know any of the politicians mentioned to understand the anger here.

Source: kenyanpatriot.com

January 29th, 2012 at 6:12PM

When I bought her the Spider-Snuggie, I made sure it was big enough for two. (Taken with instagram)

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January 29th, 2012 at 5:56PM

Created in 1982 by Gaston Glock, an Austrian curtain-rod manufacturer, the Glock arrived stateside during the 1980s crime epidemic. Through gun buybacks, discounts and Glock-sponsored junkets to strip clubs, the company seduced many law enforcement agencies into trading their obsolescent service revolvers for semiautomatic Glocks. Troubled by some of the gun’s innovative features — for instance, the Glock lacks an external safety mechanism; its “trigger safety” is released by merely pulling the trigger, a rarity with semiautomatics and the cause of many self-inflicted gunshot wounds among police officers who recklessly drew their new weapons — Congress convened hearings on the Glock, and several municipalities banned the gun. Through these simultaneous developments, Barrett writes, the gun “inherited all aspects of the American firearm heritage: It was seen as an instrument of law and security, but also menace, danger and fear.” Americans’ desire for a certain gun is elementary: if cops use a gun or if a weapon’s availability is threatened, people demand the gun. —

From the Times book review of “Glock,” by Paul M. Barrett.

When I was reporting in East Africa about a hundred years ago, I got it in my head to write a political history of the AK-47. If I could write a paragraph like that, I probably would have.

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