Archive | April, 2009

The Torture Memos Waterboarding Song

You might have seen the Jonathan Mann Paul Krugman song. Well Mann is back with a musical reading of the first of the recently released OLC memos (written by John Yoo and signed by Jay Bybee, aka the Techniques Memo) providing retroactive legal justifications for the US torture program.

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Hungry Blues

My google alerts on “Hungry Blues” sometimes turn up interesting things. Steven Taylor of the Fugs has written a song that is also called Hungry Blues. It’s very much in the spirit of the original song that my blog is named after. It’s not quite as good, but it’s a tall order to be asked [...]

 
icon for podpress  Hungry Blues (Langston Hughes/James P. Johnson) [2:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Mother Sues Florida School Board over Police Handcuffing of Her Kindergartner

You may remember the story of Ja’eisha Scott. It broke almost exactly four years ago. A Black kindergarten girl in Pinellas County, Florida had a tantrum in school. The school decided the best way to handle it was to call the police and request that the girl be charged and arrested. St. Petersburg Police officers [...]

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