We send Tweets

Following on reporting from Tengrain and M. Bouffant on the Associated Press's cowardly misreporting of what happened at Richard Martinez's press conference on the murder of his son Chris by a person who should not have been permitted to carry a gun, I have sent the following Tweet to the AP:

@AP RIchard Martinez's words "Chris died because of craven, irresponsible politicians and the NRA." should have been in your story
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 26, 2014

And while we're up, here's—my, my, my, it's Todd Kincannon speaking, as TBogg says, for his comrades of the conservative persuasion on his view of Richard Martinez:

In black and white

From Royal Wedding (1951). Via.

Throughout the George Zimmerman trial people have been arguing from the counterfactual: suppose Zimmerman was black, or suppose the situations were reversed; and claiming that we ought to generalize our reaction from there to the real case—for instance if we think Black Zimmerman could be innocent, then we must accept it for White Hispanic Zimmerman. Zimmerman's lawyer, Mark O'Mara, even suggested that his whiteness was his crime:

"I think that things would have been different if George Zimmerman was black for this reason. He never would have been charged with a crime."

Referring, no doubt, to Florida's pervasive anti-white sentiments. Hm.

But there's something fraudulent about this thought experiment: nobody's imagining it all the way.

It's easy enough to imagine a white Trayvon. Skinny kid, sufficiently smart and good-looking, but maybe acting out a little after his parents' breakup, gets into a little trouble [jump]

Scandalmongering

Updated 7/14/2013

Remember, the snark is only a sideshow. This is what it's really about. Whether there's to be a privately enforceable death penalty for walking while black.

Unbelievable and misuse of public funds. MT @WashTimes DOJ helped facilitate anti-Zimmerman protests in Florida http://t.co/OMI71fU1AH
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) July 10, 2013

This is an amazing pseudoscandal that has been blowing like the scirocco all day, beginning I guess with a report from Judicial Watch, a wingnut welfare dispensary (to be fair, they have targeted a number of genuinely corrupt Republicans) funded by Richard Mellon [jump]

Call for signatures

The story of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old Florida kid, African American of course, who was shot dead by a Neighborhood Watch vigilante on 26 February, gets more and more horrible and indefensible with each passing day: see this. You can ask Florida's attorney general to do something about it by signing here.