bastard.logic

Yes, yes it is:  

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/tuesday-night-playlist-canadian-metal-is-canadian/

File under: we are all serfs/eventual anarchists: Consulting firm PwC recently published its outlook for work in 2022, based on interviews with 500 human resources experts and 10,000 others in th...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/the-future-of-labour-trapped-in-a-neo-liberal-veal-pen/

‘WELP: WHITE SUSPECT That’s how the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal chose to present the story of Amy Bishop, a former college professor who eventually pleaded guilty to killing three colleagues an...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/08/17/white-suspects-black-victims/

Radley Balko is to #Ferguson as Nate Silver was to 2012: In depth:

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/warrior-cops-in-action-radley-balko-with-your-ferguson-homework/

Not at all helpful (quite the opposite, actually): On Thursday, a name released by the hacking collective Anonymous began circulating, but St. Louis County Police said that the name was inaccurat...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/hacktivists-out-alleged-michael-brown-shooter-only-its-the-wrong-guy/

Late night Hump Day rawk out continues unabated: (h/t)

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/you-got-me-so-that-my-nerves-are-breaking/

Bedtime rawkout in 3, 2, 1… (h/t)

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/finnish-rock-n-roll-represent/

Via Charles Johnson: Cops in paramilitary gear are now pointing sniper rifles at peaceful black protesters in Ferguson, MO. NBD. Update: Tear gas and rubber bullets. Jeebus. (h/t)

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/just-another-quiet-peaceful-night-in-sleepy-ferguson-missouri/

Science: this is why we keep you around: Nine days before the World Health Organization announced the African Ebola outbreak now making headlines, an algorithm had already spotted it. HealthMap, ...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/how-an-algorithim-caught-the-ebola-outbreak/

Afghanistan War veteran Paul Szoldra: In Afghanistan, we patrolled in big, armored trucks. We wore uniforms that conveyed the message, “We are a military force, and we are in control right now....

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/you-cant-win-a-persons-heart-and-mind-when-you-are-pointing-a-rifle-at-his-or-her-chest/

Pretty much sums up my adolescence/early adulthood/current state of existence (I’m so old I remember when being black and playing rock/punk/metal was a radical, disruptive act, etc): Bonus: In...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/afro-punk-aka-the-story-of-my-life/

MSNBC, quoting Dorian Johnson, eyewitness to the shooting by Ferguson, MO police of Michael Brown: “There are two crowds. An older crowd that wants justice but there’s anger. Then it’s the ...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/the-murder-of-michaelbrown-and-why-black-rage-is-entirely-justified/

View this post on Instagram Man. The smallest gesture can mean the world to you. Robin Williams made such an impact on me and didn't even know it. He named checked all of us in the elevator durin...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/questlove-remembers-robin-williams/

Sad news via CBC News: “Father Raymond Gravel, a well-known Catholic priest, an advocate for Quebec sovereignty and a social activist, has died. “He served one term as the Bloc Québécois M...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/rip-father-raymond-gravel-progressive-catholic-priest/

Wouldn’t you have just hated to have been the poor shmucks scheduled to follow James Mother-Effin’-Brown that night? (h/t) Bonus:

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/08/02/one-more-time-for-the-night-train/

Meanwhile, in Chicago…

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/trolling-still-an-art-blues-rock-revival-edition/

Now with extra WHITE COWBELL OKLAHOMA.

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/tgif/

Over 500 jhuggis (huts) destroyed in Vasant Kunj.

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/harnessed-in-slums/

This: The #CancelColbert supporters have a very valid point in arguing that radical action and racial outrage should not require that people of colour temper our actions and reactions to appear m...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/04/02/cancelcolbert-and-radical-choices-re-rhetoric/

Jamilah King breaks down #CancelColbert: What’s important to understand here is that Park’s aim wasn’t necessarily to get The Colbert Show kicked off the air. Instead, it was to, as point o...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/obligatory-zomg-concerned1-cancelcolbert-post/

Via Bob Mann: Gay people, more often than not, throw the baby out with the bath water when it comes to religion. But we have a good reason. We’ve been scarred. Religion has damaged us. And I tr...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/freedom-and-responsibility-phil-robertson-edition/

Despite a precocious childhood obsession with all things heavy in the 80s, I somehow missed the original incarnation of NWOBHM OG’s Satan the first time ’round (though vaguely recall Pariah)...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/monday-metal-satan-life-sentence/

Check out ‘I Wake Up Screaming’ by Cinerama, the first single in ten years (!) from David Gedge and co.:

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/cinerama-i-wake-up-screaming-audio/

While your’s truly managed to make it out for The Dirty Nil at Fanshawe College last night (an effervescent performance, bee tee dubya), I neglected to take any pics. Which is a shame, consider...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/fucking-up-young-aging-hipster-rewind/

Must-reading to keep you occupied while US legislators play Hot Potato with an extremely fragile global economy (because Teabaggers won’t be dissed by the Negro-in-Chief, natch): Plutocrats at ...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/around-the-internets-monday-jump-off/

Rest assured that the ongoing US government shutdown (or slimdown, if one prefers the wingnut parlance) won’t stop the prescription opiates overmedicated veterans are now hooked on post Iraq/A...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/more-collateral-damage-from-bushs-wars/

“I don’t feel like a hero at all. That girl who ran towards me is brave. That’s bravery.” ‘Hero’ is indeed an extraordinarily over/misused word these days. But despite his insistence ...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2013/09/28/abdul-haji-hero-muslim-bamf/

I’m not exactly keen to join in on the collective online WTFery re: heterosexual manly-man Canadian author and sessional University of Toronto lecturer David Gilmour’s steadfast refusal to al...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/so-who-are-they-assigning-down-the-hall-anyway/

Quite possibly the most unfortunate lynching metaphor ever  (or so far this week, anyhow — bear in mind, it’s only Tuesday): The uproar over bonuses “was intended to stir public anger, to ...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/a-strange-and-bitter-crop-indeed/

I just– just–had one of those painfully awkward thirty-something moments when I realized that Atheist’s breakthrough sophomore full-length, Unquestionable Presence, is now a robust 22 years...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/monday-metal-atheist-unquestionable-presence/

Without getting into the merits (or the politics) of Justin Trudeau’s call for the legalization of marijuana (of which I think there are many — one of the numerous reasons why I support the N...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/4036/

Hey, remember when the US almost detonated an atomic bomb (260 times more powerful than either Fat Man or Little Boy) over North Carolina? Good times: The document, obtained by the investigative ...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/the-atomic-road-to-damascus-with-a-detour-through-goldsboro/

While still ardent in her conviction to make her cold turkey retirement from blogging a permanent one, beloved ObWi ex-pat Hilzoy sends us this all-too brief dispatch (courtesy Donkeylicious) on...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/hilzoy-speak-you-listen/

Srsly, WTF? In a recent interview with the Times magazine, Richard Dawkins attempted to defend what he called “mild pedophilia,” which, he says, he personally experienced as a young child and...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/privilege-in-a-nutshell-or-there-you-go-again-richard-dawkins/

You can take the homicidal gun nut out of the justice system… George Zimmerman’s estranged wife called police officers to her father’s house in Florida Monday, saying the former neighborhoo...

https://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/stand-all-yr-groundz/