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At a keynote speech during New York's Democracy forum at Lincoln Center, Danah Boyd spoke of the racial disparity and possible reasons for mass abandonment of MySpace for the "more cultured" and "less cheesy" social networking site Facebook. Boyd, a social media researcher for Microsoft and fellow of the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society, stated:

"We might as well face an uncomfortable reality - what happened was modern day 'white flight'."

"The fact that digital migration is revealing the same social patterns as urban white flight should send warning signals to all of us. It should scare the hell out of us."

Boyd also said that teens who use Facebook are more likely to condescend their MySpace-favoring peers.

"Any high school student who has a Facebook page will tell you MySpace users are more likely to be barely educated and obnoxious - like Peet's is more cultured than Starbucks and jazz is more cultured than bubblegum pop. And Macs are more cultured than PCs."

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June 29, 2009 | A famous multimillionaire athlete falls in love. He invites his new girlfriend to live and travel with him; he registers hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property and assets in her name; he lavishes her with gifts, assures her of his undying love and even goes so far as to marry her in a private ceremony. Eight years later, the athlete has cast his wife out of his life, denied her every financial claim and left her with little more than the clothes on her back.

Here's a question. Would any court in the land deny this wife restitution? And in the court of public opinion, would anyone take the side of a husband so stingy and unfeeling?

Let us now switch the husband's gender. He is now a she: a lesbian tennis star willing to use the legal system to extract herself from another unhappy relationship.

If this were a no-fault heterosexual divorce, the law would unequivocally side with Layton, awarding her alimony and some division of property.

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A monument to 21st century civilization, millenial optimism, and petit-bourgeois good taste it may be, but a church it is not.

Apparently, the price tag of our new communal "worship space" was about 190 million dollars, a lot of which was spent for earthquake-proofing the building

Does it look like money well spent? No. Why does every modern structure have to resemble a shopping mall.

This could be the Social Security administration office, the DMV, or just some conference center that we come to for a human resources meeting

"Why, it's hologram Jesus! I have heard so much about you. So, my friend told me that you would look so... shiny?"

See, it was stone in the original, and now they have taken thousands of mirrors and other do-hickeys and made a Jesus made entirely out of light. Pretty freakin' clever, huh? Ya get it? Who could not like a hundred foot Jesus made out of the rays of the sun? And it's a traditional image to boot, so we can all feel good about it.

I didn't.

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The Song 32 down on the Robert Mackenzie from the Due south episode Mountie on the Bountie.

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It's a centaur tattoo. No, wait, it's a Patrick Swayze centaur tattoo.
No, we've got it: it's a Patrick Swayze centaur Chippendale tattoo

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In this new book,

The Overflowing Friendship: Love Between Men and the Creation of the American Republic

Godbeer is hell-bent on convincing us that two men in colonial America could have exceedingly obsessive and passionate relationships (he calls them, variously, "sentimental," "loving," "romantic") replete with non-stop effusive correspondence that rivals anything in Barbara Cartland, and spend many a night in bed together talking their hearts out, without the issue of sex arising in any way. He tries very hard to convince us that then was so different from now, that men, in essence, in all of this behavior, had no sex drives, indeed no functioning penises that perked up when the luscious emotions and activities he is describing completely dominated the lives he is detailing. Oh, no, insists Godbeer. Most of these friendships were not in the least sexual. You know, a sort of I Love You, Man for colonial America.

This historian is in such denial that he needs therapy

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Over the weekend, a GOP official in South Carolina posted a comment to Facebook comparing Michelle Obama to an escaped gorilla. Now, in a second instance of Republicans playing the race card against the Obamas, Wonkette notes that a racist e-mail was sent out by a legislative staffer for Tennessee GOP state senator Diane Black. The staffer, Sherri Goforth, e-mailed this composite picture of the country's 44 presidents, which represents President Obama with only a set of eyes:

When I asked her if she understood the controversial nature of the photo, Goforth would only say she felt very bad about accidentally sending it to the wrong list. When I gave her a second chance to address the controversial nature of the email, she again repeated that she only felt bad about sending it to the wrong list of people.

"I went on the wrong email and I inadvertently hit the wrong button," Goforth told NIT. "I'm very sick about it, and it's one of those things I can't change or take back."