Although it seemed at first that the iPad would only ever be shown in the pale, well-manicured hands of wealthy whites, Apple now appears to be wooing the the non-white hipster market. Thanks to my local bus stop for the update. (And no thanks for anything else, stupid bus stop.) – AS
Entries Tagged as 'AS'
Good News!
June 13th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Technology
Tags: advertising·Apple·bus stop·hipsters·iPad·Juliette Lewis·Macintosh·marketing·white people
Other Bills Not Worth Reading
May 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AS, Law and Justice, Politics
We have already said a few things here about how dumb Arizona is with its unreadable laws against all things Latino. But lost in the discussion of racial profiling is this other creepy law Jan Brewer signed regarding public school curricula. Arizona schools are now forbidden from having courses which “promote the overthrow of the [...]
Tags: ACLU·after-school club·Arizona·education·ethnic studies·First Amendment·Immigration·Jan Brewer·Jim Crow·Old South·public education·race·racial bias·racial profiling·racism·segregation·students·Tom Horne·Tuscon·white people
Which One is Arizona Again?
April 29th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration
I wholeheartedly support the decisions of state and local governments to boycott Arizona in order to protest that state’s new anti-immigrant law. Unfortunately, after reviewing Gawker’s helpful guide to the boycott, I realized I have unknowingly been on a lifelong boycott of Arizona and all things Arizonan. The only thing about boycotting Arizona that really [...]
Tags: anti-immigrant measures·Arizona·boycott·boycott Arizona·Gawker·gorge·Grand Canyon·Immigration·racism·San Francisco
Happy Bigotry Day
April 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AS, Immigration, Politics
Happy Bigotry Day, everyone! Today we should all follow in the lead of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and justifiably call someone a bigot. In case you haven’t heard, Brown got caught calling a British woman named Gillian Duffy a bigot when he didn’t realize his microphone was still on. Several things are funny/infuriating about [...]
Tags: apologies·Arizona·bigot·Bigotgate·bigotry·Bigotry Day·British Prime Minister·gaffes·Gillian Duffy·Gordon Brown·Immigration·Mexicans·Russell Pierce·U.K.
Jan Brewer, Everyone
April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Politics
Here’s a little treat to get you through this lonely time without us – Jan Brewer, governor of Arizona, stumbling all over herself in defense of Arizona’s new immigration bill: Q: What does an illegal immigrant look like? A: [Awkwardly laughs.] I do not know. I do not know what an illegal immigrant looks like. [...]
Tags: Arizona·discrimination·Immigration·immigration bill·Jan Brewer·racial profiling·SB 1070
Another Dumb Birther Argument
April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Politics, Supreme Court
George Will wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post last week called “An argument to be made about immigrant babies and citizenship.” How anyone got past that atrocious title to actually read the thing is beyond me. The article should more accurately be titled, “Every year someone makes the same argument about immigrant babies and [...]
Tags: 14th Amendment·African-Americans·birthright·Chinese·citizenship·Civil War·common sense·conservative logic·conservatives·Dred Scott v. Sanford·George Will·Immigration·Indians·jus soli·Mexicans·racism·slavery·Washington Post·welfare
And Now For Some Genuinely Good News
March 31st, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice, Politics, Supreme Court
No amount of oil drilling news can ruin my good mood today, not when there are so many shockingly reasonable federal court decisions being announced. The first, Padilla v. Kentucky, finds that bad legal advice about the immigration consequences of a criminal guilty plea constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel. This is huge. As one immigrants’ [...]
Tags: Antonin Scalia·Clarence Thomas·criminal law·deportation·drugs·immigrants' rights·Immigration·ineffective assistance of counsel·John McCain·John Paul Stevens·Justice Department·justices·legal advice·N.S.A.·oil drilling·Padilla v. Kentucky·Sixth Amendment·U.S. Constitution·Vaughn Walker·warrantless wiretapping·Wonkette