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THE QUOTE
“I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.” — Alice Walker
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HOME IS WHERE THE HEARTLAND IS
Where will the Bleeding Heartland Rollergirls skate for their 2013 season?
The Rollergirls, who clawed their way up to 11th place in the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association’s North Central Region rankings this season, have called the Twin Lakes Recreation Center home for the last few years.
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TLRC is run by the city’s Parks & Recreation Department. It’s an enormous facility that can accommodate big roller derby crowds. There isn’t a better arena in town for the Rollergirls.
Parks & Rec, though, wants BHRG to purchase a skating surface for the hardwood floor they’ve skated on to this point. That would cost the Rollergirls some $30,000.
Funny thing is, even after the Rollergirls researched skating surfaces and reported their findings back to the city, Parks & Rec still seemed iffy about signing another commitment for 2013.
Is the city jittery about the BHRG selling beer at their bouts? Stay tuned.
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BANG, YOU’RE DEAD
This story plays way too easily into stereotype.
A Houston cop shot and killed a man who was threatening his partner in a group home for the mentally ill Saturday.
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The threat bears examination here.
A 40-something double-amputee sitting in a wheelchair cornered a cop and appeared to be menacing the officer with, well, a pen. When the man refused to drop his pen, the cornered cop’s partner shot him once in the head, producing a sort of cinematic ending to the riveting drama.
Judge Roy Bean would have been proud.
I mean, honestly, can you imagine this incident taking place in, say, Rhode Island?
No, Texas is perfect.
A novelist couldn’t have come up with a better plot twist.
Apparently, the shooter cop took the old adage to heart: The pen is mightier than the sword.
I wonder what he would have done had the man in a wheelchair been brandishing a knife or an actual firearm. Would he have called for Air Combat Command to drop a thermonuclear weapon on him?
Dammit, We Told You To Drop That Steak Knife!
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WHITE SPREAD
We mentioned anal bleaching here a while back. Now, funnyman Aaron Freeman points out the latest craze, via Boing Boing: Thai vulva bleaching.
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We are a weird, weird species, folks.
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