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I’m amazed the BBC wasted 3 bytes of memory linking such a crap video. Waste of space. Better luck next time Franz Strasser. Your filming sucks.
Not easy pleasing the BBC crowd (in this case user “MrLosernurse”) with a cell phone video on YouTube:
A Recruit’s Friend, a Team’s Fan and a Headache for Colleges - NYT
Interesting article that once again shows how social media is removing barriers - in this instance in a negative way.
The whole coast of South Carolina was built on stealing from poor black people. It’s legalized stealing.
Charleston-based attorney Thomas Goldstein talks about Heirs Property and why it cost African Americans millions of acres.
I think the South is a region that demonstrates… the truth of William Faulkner’s statement: The past is not dead. It’s not even over.
BBC News - Why I fly the Confederate flag
In Summerville, South Carolina, Annie Chambers Caddell sparked outrage and protests when she decided to hang a Confederate flag from her porch in the historically African-American neighbourhood of Brownsville.
She talks to the BBC about the reasons for putting up the flag, and what she thinks about the wooden walls that a local organisation has erected around her house, limiting the view of the flag to both sides.
BBC News - 'US not come to terms with racial history'
Historian Bernard Powers talks about the history of slavery and why it triggered the secession of southern states. Powers says the US has still not come to terms with its racial history and suffers because of it.
BBC News - Sudanese Lost Boy on life in US
Opened in 2003, the Lost Boys Center in Phoenix, Arizona, is a one-stop shop for those who arrived in the US in the early 1990s.
From offering English classes and hosting heated dominoes battles, the center has also taken on the task of dispersing 13,000 official refugee records to former Lost Boys living around the world.
Kuol Awan, the center’s executive director, is a Lost Boy himself. In this first person account, he talks about establishing himself in the US, and coming to terms with a normal life after a childhood of terror and fear.
College tennis would not be nearly as good with just American players.
Rodney Harmon, former USTA men’s tennis director
BBC Travel - Guam: The best place you never considered going to
My first-ever travel feature on food and culture in Guam.
BBC News - Vivian Maier: A life’s lost work seen for first time
Although she is known to have lived a private and rather solitary existence, her work includes many images of couples and displays of affection.
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The Worldwide Leader In Dong Shots
“I did like nine television shows [about the Favre story] in two days,” Daulerio recalls. “The Today show called me on a Sunday at two thirty. It was brunch time with my girlfriend and a friend, and I was half in the bag. A couple of hours and two bong hits later, I’m doing an interview on the porch. Everyone is jamming Adderall to clean the place as quickly as possible. I was trying to find pants.” The story has generated 5 million page views to date—and plenty of debate about the TMZ-ization of sports journalism. “It isn’t a question of whether or not he should have done the story. It’s a story,” says Frank Deford, who’s been writing for Sports Illustrated since 1962. “But aren’t there better stories to do? Do we really want to know about Brett Favre trying to get laid? Wouldn’t you rather spend your time delving into the evils of college athletics, or drugs and sports?”
Even Will Leitch, the founding editor of Deadspin and one of Daulerio’s closest friends, has gotten a little queasy. At first, Leitch talked with Daulerio constantly about the site, hashing out ideas and offering advice. But in July 2009, when Daulerio posted a link to the Erin Andrews stalker video, Leitch thought he went too far. They remain close but no longer talk about Deadspin. Leitch, now a writer for New York magazine, told me he wouldn’t have published the Favre photos: “I never wanted people to feel like they needed to take a shower.”
From Gabriel Sherman’s wild, darkly funny profile in GQ’s Feb 2011 issue of Deadspin editor and “god of chaos” AJ Daulerio. [Photograph by Alessandra Petlin]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lf9ytfKPHr1qe6vsbo1_400.jpg)
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The Worldwide Leader In Dong Shots
“I did like nine television shows [about the Favre story] in two days,” Daulerio recalls. “The Today show called me on a Sunday at two thirty. It was brunch time with my girlfriend and a friend, and I was half in the bag. A couple of hours and two bong hits later, I’m doing an interview on the porch. Everyone is jamming Adderall to clean the place as quickly as possible. I was trying to find pants.” The story has generated 5 million page views to date—and plenty of debate about the TMZ-ization of sports journalism. “It isn’t a question of whether or not he should have done the story. It’s a story,” says Frank Deford, who’s been writing for Sports Illustrated since 1962. “But aren’t there better stories to do? Do we really want to know about Brett Favre trying to get laid? Wouldn’t you rather spend your time delving into the evils of college athletics, or drugs and sports?”
Even Will Leitch, the founding editor of Deadspin and one of Daulerio’s closest friends, has gotten a little queasy. At first, Leitch talked with Daulerio constantly about the site, hashing out ideas and offering advice. But in July 2009, when Daulerio posted a link to the Erin Andrews stalker video, Leitch thought he went too far. They remain close but no longer talk about Deadspin. Leitch, now a writer for New York magazine, told me he wouldn’t have published the Favre photos: “I never wanted people to feel like they needed to take a shower.”
From Gabriel Sherman’s wild, darkly funny profile in GQ’s Feb 2011 issue of Deadspin editor and “god of chaos” AJ Daulerio. [Photograph by Alessandra Petlin]
Europe’s Odd Couple - NYTimes.com
SHE MAKES FUN, in private, of the way he walks and talks, of his rapid, jerky gestures and facial grimaces. He mocks her deliberation, her reluctance, her matronly caution. She has compared him to Mr. Bean and to the French comic Louis de Funès, with his curly hair and large nose. He sometimes calls her La Boche, the offensive French version of “Kraut,” and goes out of his way to give her an embrace and a double-cheeked kiss in the French fashion, the kind of contact that he knows very well, aides say, she cannot stand.
Love a good 3,000 words on Merkel. Will read that any day - if I find the time.
In our driveway sits an oil well… My mother and I teared up a little when they took the land and scraped it off to put the rig there.
World News America - Oil boom in North Dakota town
The state is in the midst of an oil boom and small towns near the valuable shale reserves are going through major transformations.
But while some locals are becoming millionaires and businesses are thriving, Sharon Carpenter reports it comes with an environmental toll.
BBC News - Native Americans given more power to tackle criminals
Crime rates have reached epidemic levels among Native American communities and according to the US government one in three Native American women will be raped in their lifetimes.
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