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November 2, 2006
Extra, Extra: Snoop Dogg Chargey Charged
- Felony possession was the case that they gave him. Big Snoop Dogg gets busted for having a retractable baton in his computer bag, and the OC authorities have nothing better to do than charge him with what could get him three years in the hizzy. - AP
- College student who created the homemade (but still illegal) Boarding Pass generator was a Google intern - CNET
- Google digs around in the cushions of its couch and donates $30k to Creative Commons, which is like what, 12 shares of GOOG? - CNET
- "Most Important Evangelical Ever" is not only gay, but paid for gay sex, which makes him a Republican or a Pastor. In this case, it makes him both. - AmericaBlog
- University of Pennsylvania President poses at a Halloween party with a student dressed as a suicide bomber. Throughout the obvious controversy in which the public demonizes those for dressing as real demons but not mythical ones, no one mentions that the Prez is lookin pretty hot over there. What's yr sign, baby? - democracy project
- Eat up losers, we will only have fish of the sea for 50 more years - BBC & Metafilter
- FCC says of course third parties can offer Wifi in airports. Duh. - Boston Globe
- Jay-Z is some genius businessman; now he's dropping the new Nas on the same day as the new Ghostface cd on the last Tuesday before Christmas: 12/19. When pretty much everyone is getting close to broke - Pitchfork
- The UC Anti-Semitism is spreading, it's now at UCLA - Daily Bruin
AP photo by Chris Park
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Oh come on. The UPenn scandal isn't mainly over what the student was dressed like (i.e. mythical vs. real demon) - it'd be nice if we lived in a society where people didn't dress like suicide bombers and put on little shows where they order executions of infidels, but let's not get crazy. The problem with the President's actions is that she gladly endorsed - hell, laughed and posed with - someone dressed in a way meant to offend a not insignificant part of the student body she's supposed to represent. And if you don't think that's true, run what happened through your mind again - she's smiling and posing with the student, but instead of being dressed like a suicide bomber he's dressed like a KKK member.
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i respectfully disagree. i think on halloween you can dress like a whore if you want or a suicide bomber or George Bush or the devil, and yes, even as a KKK member.
in America, if you cant dress like you want on Halloween, a dark holiday, as a dark character, then we are no longer the land of the free or the home of the brave.
kudos to the Prez for celebrating the dark holiday.
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Tony, congrats on two absolutely brilliant headlines in one week - you need to get an award for this and "Extra Extra: Damn It's Getting Dark Early." I don't know what kind of award, but some kind of award. Thank you.
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Tony - of course you CAN dress like whatever you want. The question is whether you SHOULD do it.
And actually, that's not even the question. Again, from what I've read, this kid dressed this way precisely because it was ironic - all of his close friends supposedly know that he'd never really endorse that. So it had the same status as an obscene joke or an insult among friends - a confirmation of how close the relationship is rather than something that gives offense.
BUT
The Prez is not a close friend of this student. And if she is, that's not the ONLY thing she is. College bureaucrats have to negotiate the thin and difficult line between being a student's "buddy" and discharging their responsibilities. Her laughter and comfort signal an official endorsement - at least, they're more likely to do that than not. And that's an endorsement that is inappropriate given her station and her status as a representative of Israeli and Jewish students.
The point is not whether or not it was offensive in the context of the party - whether everyone "got the joke" or not (and frankly, we still don't know which way this breaks... whether the stories circulating that he has close Israeli friends are true, etc etc). The point is that the Prez didn't notice or didn't appreciate that this could reasonably be offensive to many of her students. Not to you or I, of course - but to people she is charged with representing.
Again - if the Prez got her picture snapped with a guy dressed as a KKK Knight, do you think that reaction would be as muted from the Left as it has been? And if not, then it's fair to ask why there's a double standard between some bigots who want to commit genocide against African-Americans and other bigots who want to commit genocide against Jews.