Network drama: ABC tells a tense story with ‘American Crime’
The new anthology drama by John Ridley, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave, is an intense, poignant look at issues of race and class in contemporary American society.
Liberal talking points for your Thanksgiving dinner
Thanksgiving: a time to stop and reflect on all we have been blessed with. To give thanks for family, friends, and country. But if you’re like a liberal, secular-socialist, god-hating elitist, you probably can’t wait until next Thursday so you can take the wind out of Uncle Bob and Aunt Judy’s sails by pissing all over the Thanksgiving narrative.
Daily Clicks — May 19, 2014
• Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself is an hand-lettered and -illustrated representation of the Whitman’s celebrated 1855 masterpiece by designer Allen Crawford. (fastcodesign.com) • A new study reveals Millennials’ uncomfortable relationship with racism. (slate.com) From these results, it’s clear that—like most Americans—millennials see racism as a matter of different treatment, justified by race, that you solve by…
Patton Oswalt doesn’t tell a joke, offends Internet
By JIM SABATASO | WRITER Earlier today, comedian and Twitter Jedi Patton Oswalt took to his feed to apologize for a series of offensive Tweets he never tweeted. Here’s a taste: The FUCK is wrong with me? Last Tweet deleted. The victims of the Holocaust deserve our highest respect, not penis limericks. — Patton Oswalt…
Daily Clicks — May 1, 2014
Judgmental Maps allows readers to submit annotated maps of cities. It’s the type of thing that has potential to veer into some unfortunate racial stereotyping, but you also get some spot-on jabs, like listing NYC’s Penn Station as “Worst Train Station Ever.” (judgmentalmaps.com) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar speaks out about the public’s slow response to Donald Sterling’s history of…
The Plaid Crew 