If you don't follow Betty Fokker, you're an asshat

From "When does self-delusion cross into mental illness?"

Something horrible happened in Mississippi. A couple of white teens, John A. Rice, 18, and Deryl Dedmon, also 18, went hunting for a black person to “mess with” and found a 49-year-old auto worker named James Craig Anderson – who just happened to be black. Because he was black, and for no other reason, the goat fuckers John A. Rice and Deryl Dedmon murdered him. Mr. Anderson was beaten savagely by both of the festering anuses, and then Deryl Dedmon ran him over with a truck, deliberately and with vile malice. It was murder. Pure and simple a racially motivated hate-crime and murder. They caught it on TAPE. It is beyond contestation.

But, of course, the motivation for the killing is being contested. Deryl Dedmon’s lawyer, Lee Agnew, “said in an early hearing that he had not seen evidence to support the accusations that the episode was racially motivated.” Yes, I am sure the racist scum Deryl Dedmon and John A. Rice, who announced they were looking for someone black to attack, mistook James Craig Anderson for a Swede and were just boisterously roughhousing! It wasn’t racially motivated at all!

The full post and everything Betty pumps out are always worth reading.

Arabama

The NY Times today published a collection of blog entries from Arab countries:

The Skeptic, Egypt (elijahzarwan.net/blog)

A new day dawned in Cairo today. As it does every day.

And it started as it always does: with birds, schoolchildren and car horns. No national holiday here.

I’m looking forward to going out in the streets to hear the reaction. The best reaction I’ve heard so far: “Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job.”

Bah humbug. I confess I’m moved.

Blog Title of the Day: Andrew Sullivan

The Dish sez "Holy Shit!" regarding the Kos poll that has McCain and Obama in a dead heat IN ARIZONA!!

Appalachian History: Every woman in my place is bound to feel blue too

Appalachian History: Every woman in my place is bound to feel blue too

"I get full o' good liquor, walk the streets all night,
I put my man out if he don't act right.

Wild women don't worry,
Wild Women Don't Get the Blues"

I've always loved that Ida Cox song, even used to have a "Wild Women Don't Get the Blues" bumper sticker, was happy to discover this article (and eclectic, well-researched, interesting blog!)

Fave Bloggers: Alex Pareene

I encountered Pareene for the first time today in my meanderings around the Web, and he instantly hit my list of Fave Bloggers.

Sampler, from "Wait, What's Up with ACORN?":

Matt Drudge, who controls your news with an iron opera glove, is leading today with the news that ACORN registered Mickey Mouse to vote. Ha ha ha. Honestly, what the hell's the deal with the ACORN story and why are right-wingers already clinging to it like guns and religion? Sigh. We'll try to explain.

What is ACORN??
An evil group that exists to organize poor people into a violent militia and overthrow the government via "voting." Or basically a lobbying group for low- and middle-income families, either one....

What do they do?
They started as a radical group dedicated to getting welfare recipients and underemployed non-welfare recipients together to demand socialist things like free lunches for kids and emergency room care. Now they lobby Democrats for terrorist things like raising the minimum wage and forcing the government to subsidize affordable housing. Also they organize voter registration drives....

What are my talking points for when crazy relatives argue that ACORN stole the election?
...More importantly, the election can't be stolen if it hasn't happened yet, and voter registration fraud does not explain in any way a double digit lead for a candidate in national tracking polls. Like, wtf, how are you making this argument, are you slow?...