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Diaries

"Political Correctness Run Amok!!!!111!" (Forgive me, this may be a long one)

Submitted by The Aspie Corner on Fri, 08/05/2016 - 8:18pm

The title here refers to people complaining about the state of many forms of media and entertainment today from Television to Video Games and Music to, yes, even Professional Wrestling. These cries of Political Correctness and 'SJW Censorship' have ruined everything according to some. There's just one problem with that: What many of these folks decry as Political Correctness Run Amok is simply a media response to changing and growing demographics.

So Good in So Many Ways

Submitted by Nightprowlkitty on Fri, 08/05/2016 - 8:04pm

I've had this fantasy for a couple of years now, and it's not a serious fantasy but it is also not completely unserious.

When Occupy Wall Street first came about, I thought about how I'd like to interact with those kids (I'm 61).

Around that time I found a YouTube of The Heart Sutra that just captured me. I found saying the sutra in Sanskrit was an interesting experience, this is one of the oldest languages on earth and you can feel that when you speak it.

Percent

Submitted by smiley7 on Fri, 08/05/2016 - 6:50pm

Pour hearts out
and shout percentages
with sources solid and sound

Hesitate before the pen

begin, again.

Into the night a fight
waits obligingly
to swing a right.

Cartoon man plays the music

did you hear

why we're here

colliding mysteries of communities

in time,

histories of wisdom bled from

friends near and far

learning at the bar

tender, helping understand

Black Man Down in Chicago

Submitted by Steven D on Fri, 08/05/2016 - 5:36pm

The only surprise is that the authorities in Chicago released the video of - anything. It doesn't show the actual shots fired into the back of Paul O'Neal, a kid who will never see his 19th birthday because the police body cams somehow failed to work. I know, amazing coincidence, isn't it?

Get down! Hands behind your back! You shot at us, mother------!"

Clinton acknowledges misspeaking about FBI director’s testimony

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Fri, 08/05/2016 - 5:23pm

Clinton acknowledged that she had misspoken in two recent media interviews when she claimed that FBI Director James B. Comey had characterized as "truthful" all of her public statements about her use of a private email server.

She explained that Comey was referring only to her interviews with the FBI — but she also insisted that all of her other public statements on the matter have been consistent with those interviews.

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