What trademark/copyright does Viacom own that relates to Redbones or Redbone? Please leave a comment if you know, thanks. I’m out of touch with a lot of television etc.

via Boing Boing

I’m glad this historian took time to learn the difference between viruses and bacteria. What a dumbass.

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Perhaps the most striking evidence of this came on Sunday during CNN’s ‘Late Edition’ when host Wolf Blitzer quoted West when asking Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson whether the response to Hurricane Katrina has been racist. Thompson, a Democrat, said the government had failed and ‘someone has to be held accountable.’ He cited the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.

The most revealing part of the exchange, however, was the fact that Thompson mistook the comments from West as a statement from Princeton University professor, theologian, author and activist Dr. Cornel West. In one fell swoop, the rapper and college dropout has earned a place in the front ranks of this country’s best-known and most respected African-American activists.”

I personally think it’s great that Kanye said what he said, but I think it’s more of a class issue than a race issue. And instead of pegging it on one man, I think it has a lot more to do with the system and the establishment perpetuating itself.

about polling “it’s more complicated than the wiring diagram for a hydroelectric dam generator dynamo”
“even if you see the exit polls, you still vote. you know we have guys fighting in iraq and afghanistan and if they can do what they’re doing, then you can get off your duff and go vote and come back to the couch and watch us.”
about lockhart saying they have a chance to win every battleground state: “reminds me of the phrase ‘don’t taunt the alligator til you’ve crossed the river’, i guess joe doesn’t prescribe to that.”
“bush is sweeping through the plains like a giant combine”
about Colorado: “…when Kerry wrote Santa he asked for Colorado for Christmas”