Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Posted By on Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:30 PM

Everyone's a critic, and the internet is full of ignorant trolls that love to voice their unwanted opinions. Someone started a Tumblr page that takes pretentious quotes from "credible" reviewers and replaces them with hilarious one-star Amazon user reviews. So, be careful what you say on the Internet because it might come back to haunt you in the form of a meta Tumblr blog.

Here are some of my favorites:

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  • From Awful Review Posters.

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Posted By on Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:00 PM

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  • Photo by David Safier

I was in D.C. Tuesday walking toward the National Mall when I saw a group of Native Americans on horseback. Other people were milling around, Native Americans and Anglos, talking among themselves and to members of the press. I was at the staging area for a march of the Cowboy And Indian Alliance which had just arrived in D.C., mainly from Nebraska but also from South Dakota and Montana, to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline.

I talked with Robin LaBeau (Indian name: Tataaka Agli Win), a Lakota council member of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, about her objections to the pipeline. "Do you see what's on the back of those young guys' shirts?" LaBeau asked me. "It says Unci Maka Defenders. Unci means grandmother, and Maka means earth. Grandmother Earth, we will stand to defend you. We wouldn't feel right if they continued to rape our grandmother. Those are strong statements, but that's the truth. You're burrowing down and you're hydro-fracking, and then you have nowheres to dump it so you're going to dump it someplace that's gonna leak. You're just tearing her up and spitting all over her and spilling all over her, and she's tired. She's had enough. She says, humanity, when are you going to wake up and start taking care of me, when are you going to start defending me? Why should we stand here to let the biggest dirty oil, the Koch Brothers come and destroy it?"

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Posted By on Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:30 PM

The border is full of sad stories, but this latest about 12-year-old Noemi Alvarez Quillay could be the saddest in a long, long time. Like many, those who've crossed successfully and those who've died in the desert, she was trying to cross the border to her family during a long trek from Ecuador and then to her death in a Ciudad Juarez, Mexico in a children's shelter.

From the New York Times:

"I went with a coyote and spent two months in Nicaragua and came back from there," she wrote in a school information sheet.

She got a little closer this year. In March, a month after she left home, the police picked up Noemi and a coyote in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The authorities took her to a children's shelter. She was described as crying inconsolably after being questioned by a prosecutor. A few days later, she was found hanged from a shower curtain rod in a bathroom at the shelter. Her death, ruled a suicide by Mexican authorities, remains under investigation by a human rights commission there.

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Posted By on Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:30 AM

CoLab Workspace's next monthly Innovation Talk will be Wednesday, April 23 from 12 to 1 p.m. The topic of discussion will be "innovations in journalism: investigative reporting and transparency in the era of new media." The panel includes the Arizona Daily Star's Tim Steller, Tucson Sentinel's Dylan Smith and the Tucson Weekly's Henry Barajas and Mari Herreras.

From CoLab:

Beginning with each reporter's personal experiences, the panel will look at the changes in journalism affecting investigative reporting, adaptations they have made in their coverage day-to-day, and the future of journalism as a whole.

The talk is free, bring your lunch, but go here to reserve a seat.

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Monday, April 21, 2014

Posted By on Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:33 PM

Rohan Gupta recorded some high school students storm a football field after the girl's Vandegrift High School soccer team won their first state championship ever over the weekend. While the 15-year-old high school student was filming, Georgetown officer George Bermudez was caught tripping one male, missed a female on the field and shoved male off the field. The officer has been put on paid leave and internal affairs is reviewing the case, according to Statesman.

Agency spokesman Roland Waits told Statesman that "Bermudez’s actions were not appropriate measures for a crowd control situation."

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Posted By on Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 2:00 PM

The U.S. Postal Service unveiled its latest stamp featuring the first openly gay elected official in the United States, Harvey Milk. The forever stamp will feature Daniel Nicoletta's photo of Milk in front his camera store in San Francisco, and the colors of the gay pride flag in a vertical strip on the top left corner. The stamp will be available for purchase on (his Birthday) Harvey Milk Day, May 22.

The Harvey Milk Stamp goes on sale on May 22.
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  • The Harvey Milk Stamp goes on sale on May 22.

In honor of the commemorative stamp and Harvey Milk Day, The Milk Foundation and the Tucson LGBT Freedom Day Parade Committee are hosting Tucson's inaugural Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 14, at the Hotel Tucson City Center InnSuites Conference Suite Resort, 475 N. Granada. The key note speaker will be Harvey's nephew and Co-Founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation, Stuart Milk.

Click here to RSVP and here to pre-order the stamp.

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Posted By on Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:00 PM

This week Cynthia and Bobby reviewed Marvel Now! Silver Surfer #1. Spidey writer Dan Slott is bringing the intergalactic space hippie is back! He's making amends for being a herald of Galactus and doing it in the fantastic art style by Mike and Laura Allred.

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Posted By on Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:29 AM

Meb Keflezighi has won the Boston Marathon men's title. Keflezighi is the first American athlete to win the world's oldest annual race in 31 years. The 37-year-old olympic runner's time was 2:08.37.


Kenya's Rita Jeptoo wins the Boston Marathon women's title, again. Jeptoo set a course record 2 hours, 18 minutes, 57 seconds. The 33-year-old Kenyan marathon runner won in 2006 and 2013.


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Posted By on Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 9:00 AM

More than 100,000 Tucsonans showed up to the 2014 Thunder and Lightning over Arizona show. Our videographer Alan Davis infiltrated the base and uncovered what was really going on. Davis used his dashing good looks and dreamy eyes to extract all the information you need to know about the air show.

He's the Abercrombie & Fitch model of secret agents.

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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Posted By on Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 12:32 PM

Do you want to know why you're getting really high right now? So do we. Cheech and Chong have all the answers to all your questions, including the origin of 4/20.

It's far out, man.

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