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This is Eric Mortensen's blog. He works @ Blip and lives in Brooklyn.
In addition to pulling funds from Planned Parenthood for The Susan G. Komen Foundation also decided to stop funding embryonic stem cell research centers making it fully transparent the organization has evolved from non-political non-profit to a partisan advocacy organization.
That means the loss of $3.75 million to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, $4.5 million to the University of Kansas Medical Center, $1 million to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, $1 million to the Society for Women’s Health Research, and $600,000 to Yale University. That’s a loss of nearly $12 million dollars in research money to eradicate breast cancer this year alone.
In addition to raising millions of dollars a year for breast cancer research, fundraising giant Susan G. Komen for the Cure has a lesser-known mission that eats up donor funds: patrolling the waters for other charities and events around the country that use any variation of “for the cure” in their names.
So far, Komen has identified and filed legal trademark oppositions against more than a hundred of these Mom and Pop charities, including Kites for a Cure, Par for The Cure, Surfing for a Cure and Cupcakes for a Cure—and many of the organizations are too small and underfunded to hold their ground.
Local. Artisan. Sustainable. They’re more than just hashtags.
Liza de Guia tells great stories about great food on Food. Curated.
“But dear God, we should not be putting civil rights issues to a popular vote to be subject to the sentiments, the passions of the day. No minority should have their rights subject to the passions and sentiments of the majority. This is a fundamental bedrock of what our nation stands for.”
Chris Christie, check your gay-marriage milkshake. Cory Booker just drank it.
Five minutes well spent.
Outstanding.
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Die Antwoord - I Fink U Freeky
Directed by Roger Ballen
![The Brilliant Weirdness of Die Antwoord
It was the [South African] black majority that achieved political liberation in 1994. But whites experienced their own form of liberation. Their liberation was in the arts.
Under white rule, Afrikaans art was heavily sponsored by the government and presented a rigid image of Afrikaners as upstanding Christians — a natural ruling class. After apartheid fell, white artists were free to explore a wider range of personas. The comic artist Anton Kannemeyer depicted Afrikaners having nasty sex and mangling their Afrikaans. In “District 9,” the filmmaker Neill Blomkamp portrayed an Afrikaner transforming into something else completely — an alien — and emerging with improved moral character. “People react to ‘District 9’ and Die Antwoord on the same level,” Ninja suggested. They’re drawn to the burst of creative energy released by transformation.
“I feel sorry for people who need to ask us: Is it real?” Ninja told me. Changing identities is the point — the more total, the better.
Die Antwoord’s Latest: I Fink U Freeky](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyqzpjZj3I1qz9m0ho1_500.jpg)
The Brilliant Weirdness of Die Antwoord
It was the [South African] black majority that achieved political liberation in 1994. But whites experienced their own form of liberation. Their liberation was in the arts.
Under white rule, Afrikaans art was heavily sponsored by the government and presented a rigid image of Afrikaners as upstanding Christians — a natural ruling class. After apartheid fell, white artists were free to explore a wider range of personas. The comic artist Anton Kannemeyer depicted Afrikaners having nasty sex and mangling their Afrikaans. In “District 9,” the filmmaker Neill Blomkamp portrayed an Afrikaner transforming into something else completely — an alien — and emerging with improved moral character. “People react to ‘District 9’ and Die Antwoord on the same level,” Ninja suggested. They’re drawn to the burst of creative energy released by transformation.
“I feel sorry for people who need to ask us: Is it real?” Ninja told me. Changing identities is the point — the more total, the better.
Die Antwoord’s Latest: I Fink U Freeky
Things that cannot screen for breast cancer and things that can.
A VC: Dispersion and Entropy In Social Media
The wider and broader the discussion of the TV show went within online social media, the more likely the show was to become popular.
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This isn’t just a gaffe. Reasonable politicians of all political persuasions ought to be concerned about the very poor. Presidents must be. It is their job to be concerned about the very poor. It is their job to be concerned about everyone.
Mitt Romney should spend every waking moment trying to convince every single American that he cares about their needs. But he doesn’t care about their needs and he’s not ashamed to admit it.
If you’re not rich enough to fund a super PAC, Mitt Romney just isn’t interested.
In Oliver Payne’s collages stickers of Japanese Bullet Hell Games are arranged on torn out pages of an ancient Greek sculpture catalogue. Payne transforms the violent imagery of these videogames into psychedelic explosions of color. Greek statues serve as a background and a reminder of the fantasy worlds produced in Japanese arcade games, which often picture rural Europe. Sounds of an arcade field recording give a notion of manic playfulness towards the exhibited works.
“RICK SANTORUM” — A BLR Soundbite
Always the best.
yup!
I didn’t think I could laugh at Santorum more than I already do. I was wrong.
