I have some news, my little juice boxes. ABLC is moving to Raw Story on Sunday. My new address will be angryblacklady.rawstory.com (or something similar). So hooray! I’ll probably keep cross-posting here (much to the chagrin of some of you, I’m sure), but I won’t be cross-posting full posts (see? it’s not all bad!). It’ll …
Early Morning Open Thread: Sheep Folds
Trainers have a saying: You get the behavior you reward. That’s as true for humans as it is for any other organism. So, unfortunately, is the fact that negative reinforcement works at least as well as the positive kind… and for humans in groups, negative reinforcement of Us-versus-Them tribalism can be very profitable indeed. In …
Do the Wrong Thing
What a jackass: An elderly couple have fled their Sanford, Fla., home — at least temporarily — after their address was wrongly spread on Twitter as belonging to George Zimmerman, the man who shot Trayvon Martin, Orlando Sentinel reports. The 70-year-old woman, a school cafeteria worker, and her 72-year-old husband have moved into a hotel …
NRA Selling Hoodies with Pocket for Concealed Handgun; Geraldo Non-Apologizes
Capitalizing on HoodieGate, the NRA demonstrates yet again that they have no shame, and won’t rest until every man, woman, child, and zygote is armed to the teeth: We want concealed carry to fit around your lifestyle – not the other way around. That’s why we developed the NRAstore™ exclusive Concealed Carry Hooded Sweatshirt. It’s …
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Get Whitey!
It’s a good thing this poorly camouflaged critter lives in my oak tree instead of the fictional setting of the Hunger Games, where he might have fallen under the pitiless gaze of movie huntress Katniss Everdeen. She would have put an arrow right through his little eyeball. Speaking of those who are hard on the …
No Myth
Depending on who’s counting, either a thousand or almost two thousand people showed up yesterday in my fair city to march for justice for Trayvon Martin. The reason this is remarkable is that reporters can’t remember the last time anything like that number of people marched for any issue. Rochester is not a big protest …
Zimmerman’s Black Friend: He said ‘goons’ not ‘coons’ — it’s a term of endearment!
The Zimmerman image rehabilitation tour is careening headlong into Stupidtown and threatens to barrel right through the Cottonfield of Ignorance: [A] friend of Zimmerman’s family told ABC on Sunday that people were jumping to the wrong conclusion. “I spoke with my teenage daughter yesterday, and the word in question, it’s the difference between a ‘C’ …