"The Afrocentric Pejorative" (tags)
Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary defines it as “Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. A contemptuous term used to refer to a black person” and “A person of any race or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc.” Louis WIlliam Rose comments on the word nobody can say.
PBS does it again - BE AFRAID AMERICA (tags)
BE AFRAID AMERICA, BE VERY AFRAID!
700 Acres Old-Growth Redwood Approved for Imminent Cut! Come to Base Camp/Send $ (tags)
The federal and state government are at this moment releasing a letter to Pacific Lumber Company (PALCO) of Humboldt County, California that allows them to begin cutting seven hundred acres of the largest unprotected redwoods in the world. Called the E stands, these are the best unprotected trees of the 211,000 acres PALCO owns, the creme de la creme: trees 15' in diameter, some over 2000 years old, some groves perfect, unentered, no stumps - the forest primeval.