So what are your favorite websites, other than DKos?
The Politics Blog by Charles Pierce has become my new favorite. Talking about Sarah Palin's appearance at CPAC on Saturday, he writes:
A friend bailed on the speech, making the very plausible case that Palin is simply another political celebrity freakshow, like Donald Trump. I can see the point there but, with Palin, and watching the hysterical reception her puerile screed received, there is something more serious going on. She is the living representation of the infantilization of American politics, a poisonous Grimm Sister telling toxic fairy tales to audiences drunk on fear, and hate and nonsense. She respects no standards but her own. She is in perpetual tantrum, railing against her betters, which is practically everyone, and volunteering for the job of avatar to the country's reckless vandal of a political Id. It was the address of a malignant child delivered to an audience of malignant children. If you applauded, you're an idiot and I feel sorry for you.
http://www.esquire.com/...
What's not to like? Seriously, read the whole thing. You will really love it. (And no, Pierce isn't paying me.)
Another web-site that I am always drawn to is Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Atlantic
Mourning the murders of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis, lamenting the fact that these two boys never had a chance to grow up and live and learn, the way he himself has done, Coates writes in a post titled "Black Boy Interrupted"
I am thinking of all the changes that so many black boys never see, for the death tax which their country has long levied upon them:
That we shall die, we know. 'Tis but the time,
And drawing days out, that men stand upon.
But some are given more days than others, and I think of dying at 17, in my loudness, in my vanity, which is to say in my human youth, and I tremble. I was barely anything. I understood barely anything. When Michael Dunn killed Jordan Davis, he obliterated a time-stream, devastated an open range of changes. [snip]
And this will happen again, must happen again, because our policy is color-blind, but our heritage isn't. An American courtroom claiming it can be colorblind denies its rightful inheritance. An American courtroom claiming it can be colorblind is a drug addict claiming he can walk away after just one more hit. Law and legacy are at war. Legacy is winning. Legacy will always win. And our legacy is to die in this land where time is unequal, and deeded days are unequal, and blessed is the black man who lives to learn other ways, who lives to see other worlds, who lives to bear witness before the changes.
http://www.theatlantic.com/...
I should stop now, but I do want to give a shout out to another of my must go-to sites:
Kafila (i.e. caravan)--a site for Indian news and politics. Their coverage of the Wendy Doniger book banning has been exemplary. I found this statement by the history faculty at Jawahar Lal Nehru University, one of the most respected universities in India.
We are outraged by the news that Penguin India has agreed to withdraw Wendy Doniger’s much acclaimed book The Hindus: An Alternative History and pulp all existing copies of the book in stock. Professor Doniger is one of the most respected Indologists in the world. She has spent a lifetime exploring the richness of India’s religious pasts, showcasing the creative interplay between multiple traditions — the Puranic and the Vedantic, the folkloric and the Brahmanic. Innovatively drawing on many disciplines, she has investigated the variegated world of Hindu mythology and theology, to explore what they say about order and chaos, morality and ethics, the good and the evil, the erotic and the non-erotic. Her reading of Hinduism has inevitably disturbed those who wish to sanitize and straitjacket Hinduism, and repress the multiplicity of traditions that constitute it. While welcoming all critical engagements with the book, the faculty of the CHS condemns any attempt to curtail the circulation of this book in any form.
http://kafila.org/...
Given that I had already signed many letters in protest against Penguin's decision to effectively ban the book, it was very heartening to read this statement.
So, what are your favorite sites and why?
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