The executive director of the Polish American Association blasted former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry for using the word "Pollack" in the course of apologizing to an Asian-American group for derogatory remarks about Asian-owned buisness."It's not really cool. It's pretty nasty," said Gary Kenzer, who runs the Chicago-based Polish-American advocacy group, and described also the term as "inappropriate."Polish-Americans prefer the noun "Pole.""It's not very nice. It's just not nice," Kenzer continued. "What a loose cannon this guy is. Truly a loose cannon. What the hell?" Barry, now a D.C. council member, referred to Poles as "Pollacks" at a press conference today.Barry at first denied that he had said "Pollacks," and then said that he had meant to say "Poles." "There just isn't a good way ... Continue reading →
Birth Of An Album: In The Studio With Neko Case Courtesy of the artist Neko Case in the studio in 2009. Published: May 24, 2012 by NPR Staff In the months ahead, Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep will check in from time to time as singer-songwriter Neko Case creates the follow-up to her 2009 album Middle Cyclone. In the first installment, we listen in to a song that's not quite finished, not quite recorded, not even quite written. First, Case has to learn what the song is. "That song is kind of just an ambient thought process," Case says. "I don't really know what the song's gonna do yet, so that's kind of the best description I have of it, I think." There are people ... Continue reading →
CAIRO (The Borowitz Report – In what it is calling a mission to support a fledgling democracy in the Middle East, the United States this week sent an emergency shipment of negative ads to Cairo. Explaining the secret mission, a State Department official said that with its first democratic elections getting underway, “Egypt had no access to the mother’s milk of any working democracy: vicious campaign ads full of lies and distortions.” Starting at dawn on Sunday, U.S. Army paratroopers descended on the Middle Eastern nation armed with pamphlets, flyers, and DVDs of TV ads full of libelous falsehoods about Egypt’s presidential candidates. Harland Dorrinson, the U.S. Undersecretary of State for the Middle East, said teaching Egyptian politicians the basics of character assassination was “an ... Continue reading →
I'm still not even understanding what a redneck is. Why do people even call themselves red necks? For working outside or something? Regardless of if you are a "redneck" or not that doesn't give anyone the right to be on here insulting each other. And why are people insulting all these nationalities...? THough to talk about the song, I don't like it. Not into country, but I searched toes and this came up so...ya :) TheLesExit 15 hours ago Continue reading →
