THIS IS WHERE THE PARTY ENDS

So it’s MLK Day in America, and I don’t have much to post that yr not already going to see and/or hear – the I Have A Dream Speech, selections from The Unforgettable Fire, the endless Obama references, possibly a Public Enemy video, etc.

So I thought I’d post this photo from 1959 in Little Rock, AR, to give a little visual illustration of just what MLK was up against – and why his dream ultimately cost him his life.



Obviously we’ve come a long way since then. Well, not all of us, obviously. But at least we’ve progressed to the point where everyone is racist except us, and anyone who says otherwise is playing the race card.

Or something. It’s complicated. Suffice to say that there’s still plenty of fear and loathing to go around in 2010 and beyond, and pretending the problem doesn't exist won't fix that.

Meanwhile, there’s probably a clever way to link from that to this video from They Might Be Giants about racism by association and how people tend to forgive their friend’s racist remarks as long as they were drunk when they said it. But I’ll be goddamned and dipped in jam if I can think of one.

So hit the music.

"IRON BUTTERFLY - IN A GADDA DA VIDA - 1968 (ORIGINAL FULL VERSION) CD SOUND & 3D VIDEO" (Watch on YouTube)

FACT: I have the MLK Dream speech on my iPod. It still moves me.

I know politics bore you,

This is dF

I MIGHT NEED YOU TO KILL

ITEM [via nebris ]: ABC News finds subliminal Bible verses on guns used by the military to kill people who just happen to be non-Christians!



Trijicon refreshingly admits that yes, those are Bible codes. No surprise, seeing as how Point Five of their corporate values is “Morality”:

• Morality
We believe that America is great when its people are good. This goodness has been based on biblical standards throughout our history and we will strive to follow those morals.

Which makes sense, given all the wars in the Bible. And of course Jesus was a dab hand with a sniper rifle himself. (See Romans 23:17 if you don’t believe me.)

Whether having Scripture codes on yr rifle sight counts as proselytizing by force is debatable, if only because (1) whoever yr shooting won’t have time to read it and (2) at least half the guys using those guns probably couldn’t tell you what the verse on their gun actually says unless they looked it up.

On the other hand, it’s not as though everyone at the Pentagon is a secular humanist.

I’m just saying.

Shooting straight for Jesus,

This is dF

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EDITED TO ADD [01.22.10]: Trijicon now says it'll stop putting the codes on the sights, and will provide mod kits for customers to remove them.