Daily Blend: Saturday, June 05, 2010

Prescott, Arizona councilman/radio host Steve Blair

I probably should stop turning in at 3 AM, getting up at 7:30 AM, going back to bed at 9 AM and finally getting up again at 2 PM …

• More heartbreaking photos from a time tragically long passed.
  (via The Agitator)

• Not news: Christian evangelical rock band hates gays. News: preaches for gays to be killed. Holy fuck: they routinely carry out assemblies in public schools. If there ever was a time for hate speech laws …
  (via Dispatches From the Culture War)

• Dear Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer: you might wanna reconsider all the waxing tragic about how your Daddy was killed by Nazis if it’s a completely bullshit story.
  (via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)

• Fast justice? Just yesterday, I mentioned how an elementary school in Prescott, Arizona, was being “forced” to change the Black and Latino students’ faces on a (student-made) mural to White because of a racist campaign by city councilman/radio host Steve Blair [pictured]. Well, Blair’s just been sacked for “bringing national shame to Prescott”. Nice.

• Egyptians, don’t marry Israelis unless you don’t wanna be, well, Egyptians anymore.
  (via @BreakingNews)

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