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Hearts and Minds: US warplanes drop bombs on Afghani construction workers, killing 14.
Help Is on the Way: Tanking dollar means you can’t afford BC Bud anymore? Afghani farmers are growing more pot, fewer poppies.
Musharraf Steps Down: The Pakistani dictator resigns from his army post, holds on to the presidency.
Vigilante Justice Anyone? Nothing illegal about hounding an adult creating a fake website with the sole intent of emotionally abusing a 13 year-old girl with a history of depression, say authorities. The girl committed suicide as a result. “Cyberbullying” on the rise, say experts.
Judged on the Color of His Skin: The choice of Chinese artist—and Chinese granite—for a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. destined for the National Mall in D.C. stirs outrage.
The Content of their Consumer Products: Are we sure that Chinese artist is using granite? Tests find asbestos in children’s toys and modeling clay that were—surprise!—made in China. The dangerous substance also found in powdered cleanser, roof sealers, duct tapes, window glazing, spackling paste and small appliances. The feds didn’t discover the contamination, of course. A consumer group did.
$18.5 Million: That’s what someone paid for a rare Faberge egg at auction yesterday.
Marie Osmond’s Fainting Spell: Was it staged?
I’m Sorry I Doubted You, La Nina: Another foot of snow expected in the next 24 hours.
We’ll Always Have YouTube: The national tour of Drowsy Chaperone isn’t coming to Seattle, which is a damn shame. The show—which won the Best Musical Tony in 2006—is absolutely brilliant. But you can’t see it on Broadway at the moment, thanks to the stagehands’ strike, and you won’t be seeing it on stage in Seattle anytime soon. But you can get a taste of what we’re missing on YouTube. Sutton Foster sings “I Don’t Want to Show Off No More.” Unfortunately the encore—“I don’t want to encore no more!”—isn’t included in this clip. You’ll have to buy the original cast recording for that.
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Go for some retributive cyber justice.
But I think her parents should have been more on the ball. This paragraph gave me some pause:
Megan had mentioned suicide several times, her mother said, but had never attempted it, and no one who knew her, including her doctors, felt she was suicidal.
Protip: if your 13 year old is talking about suicide that just might mean they're suicidal.
I love Sutton Foster and saw her on Broadway in Thoroughly Modern Millie. She's awesome.
Sorry, but DROWSY CHAPERONE didn't win the 2006 Tony for Best Musical. JERSEY BOYS won that year.
Apparently the couple responsible for Megan Meier's suicide (Lorie and Curt Drew) have been identified both online and by CNN. They've been subject to all kinds of harassment, and the mother's home business has suffered a bit.
What upsets my the most are the idiot parents who allow their children to have a myspace page!!!
Did that Faberge egg have a miniature microphone inside? Was it part of an elaborate plot to detonate a Soviet nuke on an American air base in Germany?
Sutton Foster is great in that number, and is a super talent. She's in that turgid turd of a 'musical' called Young Frankenstein, and her talent and charm are wasted there (as is the money and time invested by the producers, cast, crew and the audience).
Also, RE: MLK statue, Gilbert Young needs to take a step back and cool off.
He talks about King like he's the black Jesus or something.
irony: person being memorialized for promoting racial integration and harmony causes racial divisiveness through the creation of his memorial.
I don't think we should be blaming the mother of the suicidal girl. She had her on anti-depressants and was doing what she could. Having a myspace page is not a big deal. I have one with no slutty pictures, no pictures of me trashed, and I get very few solicitations. Monitoring one's kid's page is what is important, not denying them one.
Per reports, the kid killed herself in 15 minutes.
It doesn't sound like bad parenting to me.
I find it really odd that a 13-year-old girl hung herself. Isn't that sort of strange?
Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. monument:
Politics aside, this model of the sculpture looks beautiful.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2007/11/28/MNP5T81FE.DTL&o=0
Re: MLK monument.
Of course it should be made by an African-American out of American Granite (tm).
And we should also send the Statue of Liberty back to those filthy swine, the French. We don't need those Frogs making statues for us either.
It's almost as if every new show should have on its placard, "Does not star Sutton Foster."
She wasn't even out of breath. Amazing.
And speaking of Jersy Boys...the road company of Jersey Boys coming to Seattle isn't the one with Jarrod Spector as Frankie. Spector was with the San Francisco company which was the company that made an appearance at the Emmys. He was a beguiling Frankie.
the mother posing as a boy admitted to senting sexually explicit messages to megan. can't they charge her for that? it's illegal enough to get some people on sex offender registries for the rest of their lives. and in this case, far more damaging than a man simulating sex with a bicycle or a 17 year old having consensual oral sex with a 15 year old.
@10 ... well, not that ironic. some of the outrage -- if not most -- is that the sculptor holds chinese citizenship, no? these complaints center not around the color of his skin, but the content of his home nations character. MLK promoted human rights. wouldn't it be tragically ironic to have a nation with a terrible human rights record produce the tribute? just something to think about.
Since when are individuals held responsible for their national government's actions?
Note in the article they are specifically calling for a "black" artist, not an "American" one. I think it's about race.
individuals constantly bear repercussions based on their citizenship. and have since, maybe forever.
some are calling for a black artist. some are calling for material that was mined in a country that respects human rights, sculpted by an artist while a "clean" slate (as they see it).
for some i'm sure it is about race, but maybe not for all. as for me, it is fairly easy to see that this falls under the category: doing business with china, and thus is subject to criticisms we are all well familiar with.
Yes, revise my question: Why *should* individuals be held responsible for their government's actions? At least some Sloggers will probably recognize that they don't like being reviled abroad for theirs.
They can't be calling for material from the United States then? While the American record isn't nearly as blatantly abysmal as the Chinese, the US barely has the moral higher ground when it comes to respecting human rights.
ah gloria! if i was commissioned by france to paint a mural, and groups protested because of america's foreign policy, i would understand. then i would say something to distance myself from those policies (and in the process potentially be banned from bridge clubs across the globe).
and it would seem natural to me.
if they complained that they wanted a french artist, i would understand that as well, even if i didn't necessary agree with it.
finally, to compare the US with China on human rights is silly. sure, we have huge problems but can't we recognize the differing levels or abuse? even if it's barely better, as you put it, it is still better.
all said and done: yes, it is a little disingenuous to say it should be an african american sculptor. but no, there is no dissonance to want the materials and the sculptor to agree and abide by the principles of MLK as much as possible in the fact a modern and well-recognized human rights issue.
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