More like 200GAY ...t.
Hello 2008ers! A new year is upon us and there is much to see and hear.
First off, we have the beginning of primary season. My main man Chris Dodd is out and Barack Obama is quickly becoming the force to be reckoned with, with a big win last week and the possibility of another today. I'm fairly pleased with that. However, there is this excellent story from New Hampshire. After reading this, I really don't know what to think about Hillary Clinton. I think I'm sort of impressed? I kind of would have preferred it if she had just slapped Matthews. Or just kicked him in the nuts.
Then, in the rest of the world...
In India, male prostitution is on the upswing. This story is an interesting example of gender relations. One could easily read from this that, since male sex workers are treated basically exactly like their female counterparts, the domination of one gender over another is completely situational, as opposed to (as so many have suggested over the years) being biologically mandated in some way. Quite an interesting turn indeed.
Naples, Italy is now becoming what many already thought it to be: a festering pile of garbage. Good times!
What rapidly growing western musical icon has immediate family connections to Sri Lankan radicals? Why, it's M. I. A.! This isn't news, I just happened to have learnt it the other day. Also, I am not making any insinuations about her. I don't believe she has any particular interest in over-throwing the Sinhalese Sri Lankan government or anything like that. All she wants to do is shoot us and take our money.
And we're off! Back soon. Sooner than last time.
First off, we have the beginning of primary season. My main man Chris Dodd is out and Barack Obama is quickly becoming the force to be reckoned with, with a big win last week and the possibility of another today. I'm fairly pleased with that. However, there is this excellent story from New Hampshire. After reading this, I really don't know what to think about Hillary Clinton. I think I'm sort of impressed? I kind of would have preferred it if she had just slapped Matthews. Or just kicked him in the nuts.
Then, in the rest of the world...
In India, male prostitution is on the upswing. This story is an interesting example of gender relations. One could easily read from this that, since male sex workers are treated basically exactly like their female counterparts, the domination of one gender over another is completely situational, as opposed to (as so many have suggested over the years) being biologically mandated in some way. Quite an interesting turn indeed.
Naples, Italy is now becoming what many already thought it to be: a festering pile of garbage. Good times!
What rapidly growing western musical icon has immediate family connections to Sri Lankan radicals? Why, it's M. I. A.! This isn't news, I just happened to have learnt it the other day. Also, I am not making any insinuations about her. I don't believe she has any particular interest in over-throwing the Sinhalese Sri Lankan government or anything like that. All she wants to do is shoot us and take our money.
And we're off! Back soon. Sooner than last time.
posted by Mephisto at 1:13 PM
2 Comments:
this is just my opinion, and not based in any great research or anything, but as I understand it, MIA grew up in England. Though she might have some family connections to the Tamil tigers or whatever, I think she plays it up as more than it is, like that kid that claims he has uncles in the Mafia.
She actually was born in the UK, moved to Jaffna (Sri Lanka/Tamil Eelam) and then when her father started to get in heavy business in the war situation the rest of the family moved to Chennai (Tamil Nadu, India). Personally I've never heard her play it up at all, but I've only recently become aware of anything more about her than a name, so I'm behind anyway.
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